Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
12 October 2005


Wednesday 12 October 2005

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to participants in its
employees share schemes 564,283 ordinary shares at a price of 199.50 pence per
share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 187,360,493 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,447,902,084.

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