Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
12 January 2005


Wednesday 12 January 2005

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its
employees share schemes 243,739 ordinary shares at a maximum price of 199.5
pence per share and a minimum price of 136 pence per share. The transferred
shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 105,370,193 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,529,258,845.

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