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BT Group PLC
13 December 2006


Wednesday 13 December 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to participants in its
employee share plans 133,326 ordinary shares at a minimum price of 154 pence per
share and a maximum price of 227 pence per share. The transferred shares were
all formerly held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc has also issued today an additional 332,204 new ordinary shares to
participants in its employee share plans. BT Group plc's capital now consists of
8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting rights.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 345,033,979 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is
8,295,620,873.

The above figure (8,295,620,873) may be used by shareholders as the denominator 
for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify 
their interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under the 
FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.


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