Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
06 December 2006


Wednesday 6 December 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 289.61 pence per share. The 
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 343,099,770 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,297,222,878.



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