Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
17 August 2006


Thursday 17 August 2006


                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 1,000,000 ordinary shares at a  price of 234.7588 pence per share.
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 311,549,433 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of  ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,327,080,030.


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