Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
20 November 2006


Monday 20 November 2006
                                  BT GROUP PLC
                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through JPMorgan Cazenove
Limited 1,000,000 ordinary shares at a  price of 280.07 pence per share. 
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 332,057,062 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,308,265,586.

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