BT Group PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

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Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:25am EST 

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BT Group PLC
22 January 2008




Tuesday 22 January 2008


                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred in connection with its
employee share plans 425,425 ordinary shares at a minimum price of 146 pence per
share and a maximum price of 227 pence per share. The transferred shares were
all formerly held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 660,562,284 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,980,092,568.

The above figure (7,980,092,568) may be used by shareholders as the denominator
for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify
their interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under the
FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



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