Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
06 April 2005


Wednesday 6 April 2005

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that today it transferred to participants in its employee
share schemes 210,720 ordinary shares at a maximum price of 177 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 134,286,777 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,500,342,261.

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