Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
01 November 2006


Wednesday 1 November 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to participants in its
approved all-employee share schemes 76,981 ordinary shares at a maximum price of
227 pence per share and a minimum price of 146 pence per share. The transferred
shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.


Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 326,151,080 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,313,863,869.


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