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. - ends - For further information: Vodafone Group Investor Relations Media Relations Tel: +44 (0) 1635 664447 Tel: +44 (0) 1635 664444 Notes to Editors 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 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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