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Vodafone Group PLC
5 July 2001

5 July 2001



       VODAFONE IMPROVES CUSTOMER MIX IN THE QUARTER ENDED 30 JUNE 2001



Vodafone Group Plc ('Vodafone') today announces further growth in its
worldwide proportionate registered customer base during the quarter ended June
2001. Overall, more than 3 million proportionate registered customers were
gained during the quarter together with 7.1 million proportionate registered
customers which have been added through stake increases in existing ventures
and through new acquisitions. Vodafone's worldwide total proportionate base is
now over 93.1 million registered customers. The venture base is now over 202.6
million registered customers.



In the Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region, over 0.7 million
proportionate customers were added during the period together with 1.6 million
added through the acquisition of Eircell in Ireland.  The total proportionate
customer base is now 24.2 million. The UK recorded a total of 0.3 million new
customers bringing the total UK base to over 12.5 million customers.  Contract
net additions in the UK amounted to over 44% of the total compared to over 26%
in the last quarter, following the reduction in prepay bonuses paid to service
providers and distributors.  The total contract base in the UK is now 4.4
million customers.  Proportionate net additions in Middle East and Africa
totalled 0.2 million.



The Central Europe region recorded proportionate net additions of over 0.8
million in the quarter bringing the total base to over 23.2 million
proportionate customers.  This figure includes 0.7 million proportionate net
additions in the quarter from D2 Vodafone resulting in a total proportionate
customer base of over 21.6 million. D2 Vodafone's contract net additions in
the quarter represented over 28% of the total compared to over 17% in the last
quarter, reflecting further reductions in prepay equipment subsidies.



Proportionate net additions of 0.7 million were added in the Southern Europe
region in the period, resulting in a proportionate customer base of 22.1
million. Omnitel Vodafone recorded a total of over 0.4 million new customers
bringing the total proportionate base to 12.4 million customers.  In Spain,
1.3 million proportionate customers were added through the acquisition of
British Telecommunications plc's 17.8% interest in Airtel.



The total proportionate customer base in the Americas and Asia Region
increased to over 20.6 million, having added over 0.6 million proportionate
new customers together with over 4 million through acquisitions and stake
increases.  Progress continues to be made in Verizon Wireless, with over 0.3
million proportionate new customers and over 0.4 million through stake
increases bringing the total proportionate base to over 12.3 million
customers.  In Japan, the proportionate customer base increased by 3.3
million, largely due to stake increases which occurred in the period.
Following completion of our acquisition of a 34.5% stake in Iusacell in
Mexico, over 0.6 million proportionate customers were added to the base.



Growth in the Pacific Region continued during the quarter with over 0.1
million proportionate new customers added plus a further 0.1 million added as
a result of the recent stake increase in Australia from 91.0% to 95.5%.  At 30
June 2001, the region had 3.1 million proportionate customers.



Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive of Vodafone said; 'The increase of over
10 million proportionate customers in our base in the quarter is in line with
our expectations. Another positive trend in these numbers is the improved mix
of our customer base reflected by the increasing proportion of new contract
customers.  This is one of the objectives we had in the change of our
commercial policies which are geared towards increasing ARPU and profitability
rather than customer market share.'



For further information:

Vodafone Group Plc

Tim Brown, Group Corporate Affairs Director

Melissa Stimpson, Head of Group Investor Relations

Darren Jones, Senior Investor Relations Manager

Jon Earl, Investor Relations Manager

At Vodafone Group Plc

[phone]



Lulu Bridges

Sarah Landgrebe

John West

Tavistock Communications

Telephone: [phone]





                              VODAFONE GROUP PLC



 1 APRIL 2001 TO 30 JUNE 2001 QUARTERLY PROPORTIONATE NET CUSTOMER ADDITIONS


OPERATOR           CUSTOMER        NET      NET ADDITIONS  CUSTOMER BASE AT END
                       BASE  ADDITIONS      THROUGH STAKE             OF PERIOD
                   AT START     IN THE      INCREASES AND           (thousands)
                         OF     PERIOD       ACQUISITIONS
                     PERIOD (thousands)       (thousands)
                 (thousands)                  

NORTHERN EUROPE,
MIDDLE EAST
AND AFRICA1
UK                   12,279        269                  -                12,548
Middle East and                                         
Africa                2,349        166                  -                 2,515
Others2               7,225        303              1,560                 9,088
TOTAL                21,853        738              1,560                24,151


CENTRAL EUROPE1
D2 Vodafone2         20,807        744                 89                21,640
Others                1,459        103                  -                 1,562
TOTAL                22,266        847                 89                23,202


SOUTHERN EUROPE1
Omnitel              11,937        407                 56                12,400
Vodafone2
Others3               8,173        286              1,226                 9,685
TOTAL                20,110        693              1,282                22,085


AMERICAS AND
ASIA1
Verizon              11,570        345                415                12,330
Wireless4
Japan5                2,826        251              3,015                 6,092
Others                1,535         46                610                 2,191
TOTAL                15,931        642              4,040                20,613


PACIFIC1              2,837        119                 96                 3,052


GROUP TOTAL          82,997      3,039              7,067                93,103



Notes to Editors


1   The new regions comprise the following countries:


Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa

UK, Belgium, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Egypt, Kenya and South
Africa

Central Europe

Germany, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland

Southern Europe

Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania and Spain

Americas and Asia

United States, China, India, Japan, Korea and Mexico

Pacific

Australia, Fiji and New Zealand


2   Following the acquisition of a further 0.63% in Mannesmann AG, the
proportionate interests in D2 Vodafone, Omnitel Vodafone and SFR have
increased to 99.65%, 76.48% and 31.94% respectively.


3   The Group's proportionate interest in Panafon Vodafone has reduced to
52.78% following the acquisition of Unifon S.A.


4   The proportionate customer base has been adjusted for Verizon Wireless's
proportionate ownership of its customer base of approximately 98.1%.


5   As a result of stake increases completed since 31 March 2001, the Group's
proportionate interests in J-Phone East, J-Phone West and J-Phone Central have
increased to 60.25%, 56.88% and 55.17% respectively.  On completion of the
final tranche of the acquisition of British Telecommunications plc's interests
in the J-Phone operating companies, the Group's proportionate interests in
these companies will increase to 63.00%, 59.63% and 57.92% respectively.