Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
10 January 2007


Wednesday 10 January 2007

                                  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 1,174,335 ordinary shares at a minimum price of 154 pence
per share and a maximum price of 237 pence per share. The transferred shares
were all formerly held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 354,201,527 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 8,286,453,325.

The above figure (8,286,453,325) 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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