TechnoLibya

23 February 2010

Vodafone and Almadar Aljadid, the national Libyan mobile operator, today jointly

announced that they have signed a non‐equity Partner Market agreement. The exclusive

strategic partnership will help both companies to better serve the needs of their respective

customers in the country, including support for the growing number of overseas businesses

looking to establish a presence in Libya.

Under the terms of this agreement, Almadar Aljadid will have exclusive access to

Vodafone’s range of products, devices and services in Libya. Almadar Aljadid also will be

able to draw on Vodafone’s experience in supply chain management, technology

development, the acquisition of enterprise customers from multi‐national companies as

well as improved voice and data roaming services across 67 countries.

In addition, Vodafone will be able to use Almadar Aljadid’s network to offer its customers a

range of services, which utilise ‘home’ network capabilities as well as extended coverage

within Libya. The partnership will also enable multinational companies located outside

Libya and with local operations to meet their needs for unified communications, centralised

customer care and Vodafone services using Almadar Aljadid network.

Commenting on the agreement, Colin MacDougall, Vodafone Partner Markets director for

Africa and the Middle East, said: “We are delighted to partner with Almadar Aljadid in order

to better serve our business customers’ communications requirements as they look to grow

their operations in Libya.”

Underlining the benefits of the partnership, Abdulkhalek Ben Ashuor, Almadar Aljadid ‘s

CEO, said: “The partnership with Vodafone will enable us to offer our customers the chance

of being served by the world’s largest international mobile network, whilst maintaining the

advantages of being a local operator capitalizing on the fact that Almadar owns a

nationwide coverage and prime quality network, thus supporting our prime mission of

best serving the Libyan population. This partnership will bring substantial benefits to our

customers, becoming a catalyst for expanding our service portfolio and improving our

operational efficiency as well as serving our strategic vision of strengthening our

competitive advantage specially in the shadows of the state plans to open up the telecom

sector for foreign investments ”

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Notes to Editors:

About Vodafone

Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile communications group with

approximately 333 million proportionate customers as at 31 December 2009. Vodafone

currently has equity interests in 31 countries across five continents and around 40 partner networks

worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com.

About Almadar Aljadid

Almadar Aljadid is the first Libyan mobile operator established in 1995, with 43% market
share , customer base of 3 million at end of 2009 and prime quality nationwide mobile
service coverage . For more information, please visit www.almadar.ly .