BT Group PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

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Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:49am EDT 

RNS Number:1156S
BT Group PLC
10 April 2008





Thursday 10 April 2008


                                  BT GROUP PLC


             TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL


BT Group plc announces that it has today purchased through Citigroup Global
Markets Limited 2,000,000 ordinary shares at a price of 226.42 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 616,854,761 ordinary
shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT
Group plc is 7,784,372,268.


The above figure (7,784,372,268) 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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