At the Extraordinary General Meeting of Vodafone Group Plc held on 25 July 2006 shareholders approved a return of capital, by way of a B share scheme, of 15p for each existing issued ordinary share held at the close of business on 28 July 2006 and the consolidation of existing ordinary shares on the basis of 7 new ordinary shares for 8 existing ordinary shares.

The new ordinary shares have today been admitted to the London Stock Exchange official list, and commence trading today.

A total of 66,271,035,240 B shares were issued today. Following the issue of the B shares, 66,271,035,240 existing ordinary shares were consolidated into 57,987,155,835 new ordinary shares.

P R S Howie
Deputy Company Secretary

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