Vodafone Takes Nearly 400,000 Wireless Users

Vodafone Takes Nearly 400,000 Wireless LIVE Users

Vodafone Group announced it has registered over 380,000 customers with Vodafone live! enabled handsets in the period from launch at the end of October 2002 to 31 December 2002. This total includes over 150,000 in Germany, over 90,000 in the United Kingdom and over 60,000 in Italy. Vodafone also announces that there is no change to the outlook statement provided in its Interim Results announcement on 12 November 2002.

Inset is Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive of Vodafone who is quoted below.

Commenting at the Salomon Smith Barney conference today in California, United States, Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive, said:

"In the first two months of Vodafone live!, we have achieved over 380,000 customers across eight markets and are on track to achieve our target of a million sales to customers by the end of March.

"In addition, having progressed two months further since the half year, but before we have seen December’s results, we have seen nothing in any of the key performance indicators that would cause us to lower our expectations for this financial year. For next year, we therefore see no reason to alter our outlook statement at this stage."

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