Transaction in Own Shares

Tuesday 20 March 2012

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 812,358 ordinary shares at a minimum price of 61 pence per share and a maximum price of 199.5 pence per share. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 367,669,282 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,783,557,747.

The above figure (7,783,557,747 ) 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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