Acquisition

Vodafone Group Plc
11 August 2003


11 August 2003

         VODAFONE AND CAUDWELL HOLDINGS AGREE ACQUISITION OF SINGLEPOINT

Vodafone Group Plc ('Vodafone Group') and Caudwell Holdings Limited ('Caudwell
Holdings') jointly announce that they have reached agreement for Vodafone UK
Limited ('Vodafone UK'), a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group, to acquire
the entire share capital of Singlepoint (4U) Limited ('Singlepoint'), a wholly
owned subsidiary within the Caudwell Group for a total cash consideration of
£405m which will be paid from Vodafone Group's existing resources.


Singlepoint, founded in 1993 by John and Brian Caudwell, is the largest and
consistently fastest growing independent service provider in the UK. It employs
more than 1,900 staff and currently manages 1.9 million contract customers, of
which 1.5 million are Vodafone customers, representing 27% of Vodafone's
contract customer base in the UK.


The transaction is subject to EU merger clearance, such approval being expected
during September this year.


Gavin Darby, CEO of Vodafone UK, commented:

'We are delighted to reach this agreement with the Caudwell Group. We have had a
strong commercial relationship with John Caudwell for many years. Together with
the proposed acquisition of Project Telecom, this transaction will increase the
direct access to our contract customer base in the UK to 90%. This will give us
greater flexibility to develop customer usage of both voice and data services
and to offer a consistency of service and products to an even larger section of
our customer base'.


John Caudwell, Chief Executive of Caudwell, commented:

'The acquisition of Singlepoint by Vodafone UK will prove to be an extremely
positive move for the company, its customers and employees. The growth,
development and establishment of Singlepoint as a mainstay of airtime service
provision in an extremely challenging market is

something of which I am very proud. But Singlepoint's management and staff can
also congratulate themselves on the creation of a business which now sets
standards on both commercial and customer service fronts.'


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For further information:

Vodafone Group
Tim Brown, Group Corporate Affairs Director
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Investor Relations
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Darren Jones
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Media Relations
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Tavistock Communications
Lulu Bridges
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Caudwell
Iain Macauley
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