Transaction in Own Shares

9 November 2015

BT GROUP PLC

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

BT Group plc announces that on 9 November 2015 it purchased from Merrill Lynch International 400,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 461.6920 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,373,227,252 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 1,056,430 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 8,372,170,822.

The above figure (8,372,170,822) 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 FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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