Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
12 February 2008


Tuesday 12 February 2008

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred in connection with its
employee share plans 248,198 ordinary shares at prices between 146 pence and 227
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 685,399,550 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,955,255,302.

The above figure (7,955,255,302) 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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