Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
19 May 2006


Friday 19 May 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through JPMorgan Cazenove
Limited 1,500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 225.11 pence per share. The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 291,113,278 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,344,359,998.



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