BT Group PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

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Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:04pm EDT 

RNS Number:2273R
BT Group PLC
31 March 2008



Monday 31 March 2008

                                  BT GROUP PLC

             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Merrill Lynch
International 3,750,000 ordinary shares at a price of 215.11 pence per share.
The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,401,227,029 ordinary shares with voting
rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 605,830,071 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,795,396,958.

The above figure (7,795,396,958) 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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