Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
17 December 2003


Wednesday, 17 December 2003

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                             PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

  BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased for cancellation through
  Merrill Lynch International 3,000,000 ordinary shares at an average price of
                            174.97 pence per share.


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