Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
11 December 2006


Monday 11 December 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred to a participant in its
employee share schemes 32,465 ordinary shares. The transferred shares were all
formerly held as treasury shares.


Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 344,417,305 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,295,905,343.


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