Continued focus on customer again leads to strong Q3 results

Today, Vodafone Group Plc presented its Interim Management Statement with the key performance indicators for the quarter ended 31 December 2008. Vodafone Netherlands showed strong performance, following its strategy to outgrow the market.

Highlights for Vodafone Netherlands are:

• Service revenue of EUR 482.5 million
• Total customer base of 4,543,000 (YoY growth of ~13% vs. ~7% market growth) of which 58.5% are postpaid customers
• Total voice usage of 2,313 million minutes
• Blended ARPU per month of EUR 35.3 with postpaid ARPU at EUR 54.4 and prepaid ARPU of EUR 8.7

Jens Schulte-Bockum, CEO Vodafone Netherlands: “I am very happy with these strong results. We are glad to see that putting our customers at the heart of everything we do, is rewarded and that we have - once again - outgrown the market. But, in times of crisis, our customers will expect to receive more value for money. And that’s what we will deliver. By helping businesses, for instance, to integrate and optimize their total communication needs we enable them to save time and money. And, consumers will soon be able to download free mobile internet applications for their handset via our Application Manager. By offering good deals and ‘more for less’, customer loyalty will therefore stay our focus area for the coming period.”

About Vodafone Libertel B.V.:
Vodafone is one of the largest mobile communications companies in the Netherlands and is part of the Vodafone Group, the world’s leading international communications group with equity interests in 27 countries across 5 continents and around 289 million proportionate customers at 31 December 2008, as well as more than 40 partner networks.