Partner Network in Serbia

Vodafone Group Plc
17 April 2008


17 April 2008

    VODAFONE WELCOMES SERBIA TO ITS GLOBAL COMMUNITY AS 41ST PARTNER MARKET    

Vodafone today announces that it has extended its Partner Market agreement with
mobilkom austria group to Serbia, where Vodafone will introduce a range of
Vodafone-branded products and services through mobilkom austria's subsidiary,
'Vip mobile'. This agreement will make Serbia Vodafone's 41st Partner Market - a
network across the world where Vodafone products and services are available
through partnerships with mobile operators that Vodafone does not own.

'Serbia is an important telecommunications market in Europe and developing
rapidly, and we are pleased that Vodafone is now able, through its partnership
with Vip mobile, to offer a full range of international products and services
from Vodafone to the Serbian market. We enjoy a long and very good cooperation
with mobilkom austria group which is known for its innovation leadership and its
high quality standards and are happy to extend this cooperation to Serbia.' says
Paul-Gerhard Itjeshorst, Executive, Vodafone Partner Market.

Vip was the first operator in Serbia to introduce the Blackberry(R) from
Vodafone in December 2007.

'It is a partnership for the benefit or our customers. It brings together the
worlds of the leading international communications group and Vip mobile. So
customers will enjoy the best of both worlds.' stated Alexander Sperl, CEO Vip
mobile.

Thanks to the partnership, Vip customers will enjoy in the future even more
innovative services, exclusive handsets and the international roaming footprint
of Vodafone.

Several members of mobilkom austria group, such as mobilkom austria (Austria),
Vipnet (Croatia), Mtel (Bulgaria) and Si.mobil (Slovenia), have already joined
this partnership. Vip mobile will add the Vodafone logo on all products and
services that are offered as the result of this agreement.

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About Vodafone

Vodafone is the world's leading international mobile communications group with
over 252 million proportionate customers as at 31 December 2007. Vodafone
currently has equity interests in 25 countries across five continents and a
further 41 partner networks worldwide. For more information, please visit
www.vodafone.com

Vip

On December 1, 2006 Vip, member of mobilkom austria group, was granted the
licence for the third mobile operator in Serbia, The license for GSM 900/1800
plus UMTS is valid for 10-year period and it can be prolonged automatically for
another 10 years. The licence obligation is for 80% population coverage in a
four-year period. The first Vip mobile postpaid offer was launched on 19th
October, 2007. Vip was the first to introduce 'BlackBerry(R) from Vodafone' on
the market. Vip is the biggest greenfield investor in Serbia to-date, investing
99,4 Million Euro in capital expenditure in 2007. At the end of 2007 Vip mobile
had more than half a million customers and employed 445 experts. 

More information: www.vipmobile.co.yu

mobilkom austria group

Members of the mobilkom austria group, the mobile communication segment of
Telekom Austria Group, are: mobilkom austria (Austria), Vipnet (Croatia),
Si.mobil (Slovenia), mobilkom liechtenstein (Liechtenstein), Mobiltel 
(Bulgaria), Vip mobile (Serbia) and Vip operator (Macedonia) and the latest 
acquisition, MDC (Belarus). Around 8,000 employees serve more than 15.4 million 
customers.

At the full year for 2007 the mobilkom austria group recorded revenues of EUR
3,035.1 million, EBITDA of EUR 1,177.6 million and operating income of EUR 637,5
million. mobilkom austria group stands for innovation, both in marketing and
technology. The launch of the worldwide first GPRS network in Austria in 2000,
the introduction of the EDGE technology as the first company in Slovenia in
2003, the first launch of a UMTS network in Europe and Austria in 2002 and the
first European launch of HSDPA 7.2 in Austria and Croatia in 2007 only prove its
innovative role. The know-how transfer among the group members and markets
provides rapid development and implementation of all products and services
throughout the group. Since 2003 mobilkom austria group has a partnership
agreement with Vodafone. 

More information: www.mobilkomaustriagroup.net 



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