Transaction in Own Shares

BT Group PLC
09 August 2006


Wednesday 9 August 2006

                                  BT GROUP PLC

                           TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES


BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 410,000 ordinary shares at a price of 243.54 pence per share. The
purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 319,016,327 ordinary shares as
treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares
held as treasury shares) is 8,319,613,136.


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