EMTN Programme

VODAFONE AIRTOUCH PLC
16 July 1999
                                                         
  VODAFONE AIRTOUCH PLC EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE PROGRAMME
                                                         
                                                         
Vodafone  AirTouch Plc has today signed a Euro 5  billion
Euro Medium Term Note Programme.

The  programme will provide Vodafone AirTouch Plc with  a
flexible  and  efficient  mechanism  for  capital  market
funding  in the euromarkets.  It will be used for general
corporate purposes including the refinancing of bank  and
other debt.

Notes  issued under the programme will carry a rating  of
A2  from  Moody's Investors Service Limited  and  A  from
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

The  dealers  for  the  programme are  Barclays  Capital,
Deutsche  Bank,  Goldman  Sachs International,  Greenwich
NatWest,  HSBC  Markets,  J. P. Morgan  Securities  Ltd.,
Salomon  Smith  Barney International and  Warburg  Dillon
Read and the programme was arranged by Greenwich NatWest.

On   30  June  1999,  Vodafone  Group  Plc  and  AirTouch
Communications, Inc. merged and Vodafone  Group  Plc  was
renamed  Vodafone  AirTouch  Plc.    At  this  date   the
combined  company  had  interests in  23  countries  with
approximately   28   million   proportionate    customers
(excluding  paging  customers),  making  it  the  world's
largest mobile telecommunications group.

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Enquiries:

Vodafone AirTouch Plc:   Terry Barwick,
                    Director of Corporate Affairs
                    Tim Brown / Melissa Stimpson,
                    Investor Relations Department
Telephone           [phone]

Greenwich NatWest:  Charles Stephens,
                    Director,
                    Capital Markets
Telephone           [phone]