BT Group PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

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Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:04pm 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 purchased through Morgan Stanley
Securities Limited 926,801 ordinary shares at a price of 249.5769 pence per
share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.


BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,640,654,852 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 661,489,085 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,979,165,767.


The above figure (7,979,165,767) 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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