Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
12 December 2006


Tuesday 12 December 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through JPMorgan Cazenove 
Limited 250,000 ordinary shares at a price of 293.63 pence per share. The 
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 345,167,305 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,295,155,343.



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