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Vodafone Germany has just come to the end of a successful spring quarter. It has acquired an additional 500,000 new customers over the last three months. 27.7 million customers now use Vodafone's voice and data services. UMTS is one of the biggest growth drivers. 530,000 Vodafone customers in Germany already use UMTS; 410,000 of these have a UMTS mobile phone and 120,000 a UMTS data card and laptop.

The expansion of the company's customer base by a further half a million customers in the spring quarter means that Vodafone Germany has surpassed the already excellent result in the 2004 spring quarter, when it recorded 460,000 new customers. Vodafone has also realised global growth. The Vodafone Group's global customer base had expanded by more than 4 million (organic growth) to currently more than 165 million.

At Vodafone Germany, the average monthly turnover per customer was EUR 24.6. Turnover accounted for by data services also developed very positively. The portion of turnover generated by data services alone over the 12 month period, not including messaging (SMS and MMS), increased from two percent to 3.5 percent. Including messaging, data services now account for 18.4 percent of service turnover.

"Vodafone is still realising profitable customer growth. Thanks to UMTS and the success of fixed network substitution with the Vodafone At Home product family, I am confident that Vodafone Germany's profitable growth will continue. In the second half of the year and during the 2005 Christmas trading period, Vodafone will be focusing on UMTS and Vodafone At Home," commented Jurgen von Kuczkowski, CEO of Vodafone D2 GmbH.