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Business review Performance Governance Financials Additional information
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Vodafone Group Plc
Annual Report 2012
Licences
The table below summarises the most signicant mobile licences held by our operating subsidiaries and our joint venture in Italy at 31 March 2012.
We present the licences by frequency band since in many markets, including the majority of Europe, they can be used for a variety of technologies
including 2G, 3G and in the future LTE.
Mobile licences
Country by region 800 MHz expiry date 900 MHz expiry date 1800 MHz expiry date 2.1 GHz expiry date 2.6 GHz expiry date
Europe
Germany December 2025 December 2016 December 2016 December 2020 December 2025
Italy December 2029 February 2015 February 20151December 2021 December 2029
Spain December 2030 February 2020 December 2030 April 2020 December 2030
UK n/a See note2See note2December 2021 n/a
Albania n/a June 2016 June 2016 December 2025 n/a
Czech Republic n/a January 2021 January 2021 February 2025 n/a
Greece n/a September 20273 December 20263August 2021 n/a
Hungary n/a July 20144July 20144December 20194n/a
Ireland n/a February 2013 December 2015 October 2022 n/a
Malta n/a August 2026 August 2026 August 2020 n/a
Netherlands n/a March 2013 March 2013 December 2016 May 2030
Portugal March 2027 October 20215October 20215January 2016 March 2027
Romania n/a December 2011 December 2011 March 2020 n/a
Turkey n/a April 2023 – April 2029 n/a
Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacic
India6n/a
November 2014
– December 2026
November 2014
– December 2026 September 2030 n/a
Vodacom: South Africa n/a See note7See note7See note7n/a
Egypt n/a January 2022 January 2022 January 2022 n/a
Ghana n/a December 2019 December 2019 December 20238n/a
New Zealand n/a November 2031 March 2021 March 2021 n/a
Qatar n/a June 2028 June 2028 June 2028 n/a
Notes:
1 2x5 MHz of 1800 MHz spectrum will expire in 2029.
2 Indenite licence with a ve year notice of revocation.
3 2x15 MHz of the 1800 MHz spectrum will expire in August 2016.
4 Options to extend these licences.
5 2x3 MHz of 900 MHz must be released by December 2015 and 2x14 MHz of 1800 MHz spectrum does not expire until March 2027.
6 India is comprised of 22 separate service area licences with a variety of expiry dates. Option to extend 900/1800 MHz licences by ten years.
7 Vodacom’s South African spectrum licences are renewed annually. As part of the migration to a new licensing regime the NRA has issued Vodacom a service licence and a network licence which will permit Vodacom to offer
mobile and xed services. The service and network licences have 20 year duration and will expire in 2028. Vodacom also holds licences to provide 2G and/or 3G services in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho,
Mozambique and Tanzania.
8 The NRA has issued provisional licences with the intention of converting these to full licences once the NRA board has been reconvened.