Vodacom Group Limited Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015

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SHAMEEL AZIZ JOOSUB Vodacom Group CEO commented: “It has been a strong start to the year with sustained growth underpinned by network superiority, customer value management excellence and distribution leadership. We lifted Group capital expenditure 5.8% to R6.2 billion, expanding 3G coverage in all our markets. In South Africa, LTE/4G coverage increased from 32.2% to 46.8%. We have already seen the customer experience improve significantly, creating a 17 point lead in Net Promoter Score (‘NPS’) between us and our nearest competitor. Group revenue increased 6.4% supported by customer growth of 6.8% to 65.1 million. Group EBITDA growth increased 13.0% due to excellent commercial execution, solid progress with our structured multi-year cost saving programme and a weaker prior year first half comparative. EBITDA growth was also boosted by the savings realised from the several actions we took in the second half last year to reduce costs. In our International operations, we achieved good customer growth of 10.6%. Service revenue reached double digit growth of 12.4% (10.3%*) stepping up from 7.4% in the second half of last year.

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I am most encouraged by the increasing demand for data services as we make

devices and data bundles more affordable. We now have 28.3 million data users across the Group, driving a 33.5% increase in data revenue. Our LTE/4G customers in South Africa, now approaching two million, consume almost three times more data as compared with 3G customers. There are good opportunities ahead of us as only 66% of our monthly active customers in South Africa are using data and our share in fixed services is only a fraction of what it is in mobile. The performance of Vodacom Business in South Africa was particularly strong with underlying service revenue growth of 12.8%, underpinned by new customer wins as well as our mobile customers choosing to purchase fixed services from us as they trust our brand and value network reliability. Neotel, which is pending Competition Tribunal approval, will further enhance our ability to contribute meaningfully to the development of fixed-line services, broadband and fibre to homes and businesses in South Africa. In the second half, we plan to invest more into fibre and other new growth areas by building the right capability to ensure we sustain growth into the next year.”

Vodacom Group Limited Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015

Highlights Group active customers increased

6.8%

to 65.1 million

Group revenue up

6.4% and service revenue up 4.9% South Africa’s revenue increased

5.1%

International operations’ revenue grew

12.6%

representing 21.3% of Group revenue

Group EBITDA grew

13.0% to R14.7 billion with a 2.1 ppt margin expansion to 36.7% Capital expenditure of

R6 224 million focused on rapidly expanding LTE/4G coverage and increasing speeds Headline earnings per share (‘HEPS’) up

6.0%

to 440 cents per share

Interim dividend per share of

395

cents, up 5.3%

Group data revenue up

33.5% Six months ended 30 September Rm Revenue Service revenue EBITDA Operating profit Capital expenditure Operating free cash flow Free cash flow Headline earnings per share (cents)

Year on year % change

2015

2014

Reported

39 956 32 244 14 681 10 169 6 224 5 831 2 181 440

37 546 30 725 12 993 9 430 5 881 4 462 1 224 415

6.4 4.9 13.0 7.8 5.8 30.7 78.2 6.0

Adjusted** 6.8 5.6 14.1

Notes: * Normalised growth adjusted for trading foreign exchange and at a constant currency using current year as base (collectively ‘foreign exchange’). ** Growth adjusted for foreign exchange and the change in accounting estimate relating to revenue recognition of un-recharged vouchers in September 2014 in South Africa. Refer to page 29 for a reconciliation of adjustments. All growth rates quoted are year-on-year growth rates unless stated otherwise.

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Operating review South Africa Service revenue increased 2.9% to R24 110 million as the business returned to growth, supported by the lapping of MTR cuts, customer additions, ARPU stabilisation and higher data usage following from our accelerated capex programme. Excluding the benefit of a R325 million accounting estimate change in the prior year, service revenue grew 4.3%. Revenue grew faster at 5.1% to R31 696 million, underpinned by a 12.0% increase in equipment revenue with over 5.5 million devices sold in the first half, of which 1.3 million were Vodacom branded devices. Total active customers reached 33.7 million with 1.6 million net customer additions in the first half. ARPU of R112 in the second quarter was stronger than R110 in the first quarter supported by increased voice usage and continued data ARPU expansion as customers traded up their phones. Active contract customers increased 2.4% to 4.9 million and contract churn fell from 10.2% a year ago to 7.3%. We have migrated 81% of contract customers to new price plans with better value offerings and as a result, contract in-bundle spend increased to 70.8% (2014: 68.9%). Active prepaid customers increased 3.7% to 28.8 million customers, largely due to the success of customer value management programmes. The continued adoption of prepaid voice bundles, particularly the new “Just for you” offer, supported customer acquisition together with an improved voice revenue trend. Prepaid voice bundle purchases increased 35.2% to almost 353 million in the first half of this year. Data revenue increased 33.4% to R8 267 million due to exceptional growth in the demand for data. The improved affordability of both devices and data bundles supported a 48.0% increase in data traffic. Data revenue comprises 34.3% of service revenue up from 26.4% a year ago. Active data customers increased 6.8% to 17.8 million customers and data bundle sales doubled from last year largely due to the take-up of more affordable daily bundles. Active smart devices on the network increased 30.9% to 12.6 million and the average amount of data used per month increased 18.5% to 550MB on such devices. Tablets on the network increased 126.2% to 1.4 million following the success of the Vodacom branded 3G Smart Tab. Vodacom Business continues to deliver strong growth as we leverage network reliability and our leading mobile brand to move more deeply into fixed-line. Fixed-line and business managed services increased 31.1% year on year and now comprises 15.3% of total Vodacom Business service revenue. Growth was supported by the increased demand for fixed services, particularly IP-VPN offers as well as cloud and hosting services as customers sign up for cloud solutions such as SAP HANA software and Microsoft Office 365. Machine-to-machine (‘M2M’) customers increased 17.5% to 1.9 million. Vodacom Business service revenue now contributes 22.7% of South African service revenue. EBITDA increased 13.1% to R12 262 million with EBITDA margin expanding 2.8 ppts to 38.7% due to a strong focus on cost efficiencies. We benefited from the commercial changes made in the second half of last year, where several actions were taken to reduce costs, such as reducing prepaid voucher commission; halving the net cost of SIMs and repurchasing our customer base from Nashua Mobile (Pty) Limited. Other cost saving initiatives included maintenance contract renegotiations, self-providing more of our transmission as well as rationalising our property portfolio. Capital expenditure of R4.0 billion allowed us to widen substantially 3G and LTE/4G data coverage, improve voice quality and increase data speeds. 3G coverage increased to 98% of the population and LTE/4G coverage to 47%, up from 32% a year ago. We extended our high-speed transmission to 85% of our sites. During the period, we commenced fibre deployments to both residential estates and businesses and focused more of our capital spend on new billing systems to allow us to transition from a predominately mobile company to a unified communications provider. Customer experience improvements under the Vodafone global CARE programme have led to substantial gains in our customer satisfaction measures. During the first half of this year, we stepped up our communication with customers around network enhancements. To ensure customers are connected easily, we download apps, set-up emails and transfer contacts and photos in store. We are making it easier to view usage and purchase data bundles. When customers travel overseas they will be able to call customer care 24/7 and use the Vodacom App for free. We also intend widening our Travel Saver price plan to more countries. Our investment in building self-help service channels like the Vodacom App is not only improving the customer experience but has supported a meaningful reduction in call volumes to our call centres. On 23 September 2015, the Group entered into a purchase agreement with Altech Autopage (Pty) Limited, where they will dispose of their Vodacom customer base to the Group. The transaction is subject to the approval of the Competition authorities.

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As announced on 2 July 2015, we obtained approval for the Neotel transaction (‘the Transaction’) from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (‘ICASA’) and a positive recommendation on the Transaction from the Competition Commission of South Africa to the Competition Tribunal, both of which are subject to certain conditions. We await the outcome of the Competition Tribunal and the ICASA public commentary processes. We have made headway in building our brand and earning the confidence of all our stakeholders. This focus has seen us being voted the Top Brand in the Telecoms categories for both consumer and business in the Sunday Times Top Brands Survey, being recognised as the Top Employer in the telecoms industry by the Top Employers Institute and named the most reputable telecoms operator in the fifth annual Mail and Guardian Top Companies Reputation index.

International Service revenue in our International operations, which accounts for 25.7% of Group service revenue, increased by 12.4% (10.3%*) with growth in all markets. The segment continues to benefit from customer growth, increased usage of voice and data services and effective marketing and pricing strategies. Customers increased 10.6% to 31.4 million, with 1.8 million customer additions in the period. Data revenue grew 34.3% driven by a 14.2% increase in active data customers to 10.5 million, representing 33.5% of the customer base. Data contributed 22.5% of service revenue from 18.9% a year ago. We continue to focus on our commercial and network offering to drive data growth, ensuring customers have access to better low cost smart devices, such as Vodacom Kicka and SmartTab, expanding 3G and LTE/4G network coverage and driving the adoption of data bundles. M-Pesa continues to grow strongly in all our markets, fuelled by expansion in the distribution channel and a growing ecosystem. We added 1.2 million customers in the six month period, increasing the number of active customers to 9.2 million1, an increase of 30.3% from the prior year. In Tanzania, M-Pawa (savings and loan product) is gaining traction with 1.3 million customers actively using the service. EBITDA grew 10.0% (12.0%*) to R2 405 million, contributing 16.4% to Group EBITDA. EBITDA margin declined slightly from 28.9% to 28.2%, largely due to the increased costs as a result of currency weakness in all our markets and higher network operating costs from increased base station sites. Capital expenditure increased 24.8% to R2 175 million. We continue to invest significantly in all our markets to strengthen network and service differentiation. To support the significant data growth and wider voice coverage we increased the number of 3G sites by 46.6% and 2G sites by 24.2%. In Lesotho, where we have LTE/4G coverage, we more than doubled our LTE/4G sites.

Outlook Our markets continue to be highly competitive, and regulatory and macroeconomic risks remain. However, we are confident that our network and customer experience investments will differentiate us and translate into customer growth and higher usage. Although our performance in the first half is tracking ahead of target on service revenue and EBITDA, our targets were set looking at a compound annual growth rate over a three year period from March 2014 to March 2017. In the first year, we delivered below target mainly due to the reduction of MTRs hence, an increase in expectation for the second and third year to compensate for the weaker first year. While service revenue and in particular EBITDA growth for the first half are very favourable compared to the targets, we do not expect EBITDA growth to be sustained at such a high rate of 13% into the second half. The second half will carry high costs for publicity network and capability development in fibre and content. Year over year growth will be impacted by the stronger performance in the second half of last year where profitability stepped up as a result of our efficiency initiatives. Also, there is a further reduction in MTR in South Africa which became effective from October onwards. This has a slight negative effect on our margin in the second half. In May 2015, the Board confirmed the medium-term targets of service revenue in the low single digits, EBITDA growth in the mid single digits and capital expenditure between 14% and 17% of Group revenue. This guidance excludes the impact of acquisitions. The Board maintains the dividend policy to pay at least 90% of headline earnings. 1. Number of unique customers who have generated revenue related to M-Pesa in the past 90 days, of these 6.8 million have been active in the past 30 days in the International operations.

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Financial review Summary financial information Six months ended 30 September Rm Service revenue Revenue EBITDA Operating profit Net profit Operating free cash flow Free cash flow Capital expenditure Net debt Basic earnings per share (cents) Headline earnings per share (cents) Contribution margin (%) EBITDA margin (%) Operating profit margin (%) Effective tax rate (%) Net profit margin (%) Net debt/EBITDA (times) Capital intensity (%)

% change

2015

2014

2013

14/15

13/14

32 244 39 956 14 681 10 169 6 446 5 831 2 181 6 224 21 338 441

30 725 37 546 12 993 9 430 6 302 4 462 1 224 5 881 16 006 422

30 213 36 688 13 221 9 998 6 631 6 308 3 178 4 850 11 963 443

4.9 6.4 13.0 7.8 2.3 30.7 78.2 5.8 33.3 4.5

1.7 2.3 (1.7) (5.7) (5.0) (29.3) (61.5) 21.3 33.8 (4.7)

440

415

439

6.0

(5.5)

58.5 36.7 25.5 30.4 16.1 0.7 15.6

57.1 34.6 25.1 30.2 16.8 0.6 15.7

57.4 36.0 27.3 30.5 18.1 0.5 13.2

1.4 ppts 2.1 ppts 0.4 ppts 0.2 ppts (0.7 ppts) 0.1 times (0.1 ppt)

(0.3 ppts) (1.4 ppts) (2.2 ppts) (0.3 ppts) (1.3 ppts) 0.1 times 2.5 ppts

Service revenue Six months ended 30 September Rm

% change

2015

2014

2013

14/15

13/14

South Africa International Corporate and eliminations

24 110 8 279 (145)

23 437 7 366 (78)

23 747 6 516 (50)

2.9 12.4 (85.9)

(1.3) 13.0 (56.0)

Service revenue

32 244

30 725

30 213

4.9

1.7

Group service revenue increased 4.9% (5.4%**) to R32 244 million, underpinned by customer growth of 6.8% and data revenue growth of 33.5%. Data revenue contributes 31.4% of Group service revenue compared to 24.7% a year ago. Revenue grew faster at 6.4% (6.8%**) to R39 956 million, underpinned by strong demand for devices, particularly low cost 3G devices. In South Africa, service revenue returned to growth increasing 2.9% (4.3% excluding the benefit of a R325 million accounting estimate change in the prior period) mainly due to the growth in mobile data and fixed-line services, partly offset by the decline in voice revenue. In the International operations, service revenue grew 12.4% (10.3%*) supported by growth in customers, voice usage and the continued take-up of data services as we accelerated our network investment programme.

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Vodacom Group Limited Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015

Total expenses1 Six months ended 30 September Rm

% change

2015

2014

2013

14/15

13/14

South Africa International Corporate and eliminations

19 436 6 243 (285)

19 189 5 414 (164)

18 634 4 915 (160)

1.3 15.3 (73.8)

3.0 10.2 (2.5)

Total expenses1

25 394

24 439

23 389

3.9

4.5

Group total expenses increased 3.9% to R25 394 million below revenue growth of 6.4%. These expenses include a net foreign exchange loss on the revaluation of foreign currency denominated trading items of R7 million (2014: R163 million). In South Africa total expenses increased 1.3%. Excluding the positive impact of trading foreign exchange, total expenses increased by 2.5% largely due to the device cost of sales to support the 12.0% growth in equipment revenue. Excluding cost of sales for devices and the favourable impact of trading foreign exchange, total expenses were actually down 0.9%. In the International operations, total expenses increased by 15.3% (10.8%*) mainly due to network operating costs associated with more base station sites and the increased non-local currency denominated costs.

EBITDA Six months ended 30 September Rm

% change

2015

2014

2013

14/15

13/14

South Africa International Corporate and eliminations

12 262 2 405 14

10 844 2 187 (38)

11 421 1 806 (6)

13.1 10.0 136.8

(5.1) 21.1 200.0 29.7

(1) (1) –

14 435 870 13 565

12.8 52.1 11.0

20 381

2.4

5 127

38.1

(5)

25 503

8.0

1 888 1 478

(23.6) 6.9

693 696

36.7 (60.7)

(21) (24)

2 560 2 150

(12.8) (30.3)

23 747

–

6 516

8.7

(50)

30 213

2.0

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South Africa key indicators Six months ended 30 September

% change

2015

2014

2013

14/15

13/14

Active customers1 (thousand) Prepaid Contract

33 745 28 821 4 924

32 613 27 806 4 807

30 139 25 331 4 808

3.5 3.7 2.4

8.2 9.8 0.0

Active data customers2 (thousand)

17 811

16 679

14 204

6.8

17.4

1 854

1 578

1 302

17.5

21.2

25 253 20 525 4 728

23 960 18 963 4 997

20 786 16 129 4 657

5.4 8.2 (5.4)

15.3 17.6 7.3

MOU per month5 Prepaid Contract

127 116 187

123 113 185

118 105 183

3.3 2.7 1.1

4.2 7.6 1.1

Total ARPU6 (rand per month) Prepaid Contract

111 63 387

112 66 380

126 74 393

(0.9) (4.5) 1.8

(11.1) (10.8) (3.3)

Messaging (million)

1 918

2 328

2 806

(17.6)

(17.0)

Number of employees

4 953

5 126

4 957

(3.4)

3.4

Machine-to-machine customers3 (thousand) 4

Traffic (millions of minutes) Outgoing Incoming

Notes: 1. Active customers are based on the total number of mobile customers using any service during the last three months. This includes customers paying a monthly fee that entitles them to use the service even if they do not actually use the service and those customers who are active whilst roaming. 2. Active data customers are a number of unique users who have generated revenue related to any data activities in the reported month (this excludes SMS and MMS messaging users). A unique user is a customer who needs to be counted once regardless of what data services they have utilised. A user is defined as a count of all active customers that have generated data revenue for a contractual monthly fee for this service or have used the service during the reported month. 3. Machine-to-machine (‘M2M’) is the remote wireless interchange between two or more predefined devices or a central station without direct relationship with an end customer, in order to support a specific business process or product. 4. Traffic comprises total traffic registered on Vodacom‘s mobile network, including bundled minutes, promotional minutes and outgoing international roaming calls, but excluding national roaming calls, incoming international roaming calls and calls to free services. 5. Minutes of use (‘MOU’) per month is calculated by dividing the average monthly minutes (traffic) during the period by the average monthly active customers during the period. 6. Total ARPU is calculated by dividing the average monthly service revenue by the average monthly active customers during the period. Prepaid and contract ARPU only include service revenue generated from Vodacom mobile customers.

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International key indicators Six months ended 30 September

% change

2015

2014

2013

14/15

13/14

Active customers1 (thousand) Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

31 373 12 521 12 118 5 464 1 270

28 367 11 316 11 003 4 913 1 135

23 672 10 023 8 790 3 688 1 171

10.6 10.6 10.1 11.2 11.9

19.8 12.9 25.2 33.2 (3.1)

Active data customers2 (thousand) Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

10 496 5 553 2 297 2 219 427

9 188 4 963 2 241 1 636 348

6 065 2 958 1 748 1 090 269

14.2 11.9 2.5 35.6 22.7

51.5 67.8 28.2 50.1 29.4

121 39 100 70

162 43 128 53

119 37 94 31

(25.3) (9.3) (21.9) 32.1

36.1 16.2 36.2 71.0

37 37 51 62

44 32 50 46

45 35 59 45

(15.9) 15.6 2.0 34.8

(2.2) (8.6) (15.3) 2.2

Total ARPU4 (local currency per month) Tanzania (TZS) DRC (USD) Mozambique (MZN)

6 157 3.0 156

6 821 3.0 146

7 401 3.6 183

(9.7) – 6.8

(7.8) (16.7) (20.2)

Number of employees

2 328

2 312

2 177

0.7

6.2

MOU per month3 Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho Total ARPU4 (rand per month) Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

Notes: 1. Active customers are based on the total number of mobile customers using any service during the last three months. This includes customers paying a monthly fee that entitles them to use the service even if they do not actually use the service and those customers who are active whilst roaming. 2. Active data customers are a number of unique users who have generated revenue related to any data activities in the reported month (this excludes SMS and MMS messaging users). A unique user is a customer who needs to be counted once regardless of what data services they have utilised. A user is defined as a count of all active customers that have generated data revenue for a contractual monthly fee for this service or have used the service during the reported month. 3. Minutes of use (‘MOU’) per month is calculated by dividing the average monthly minutes (traffic) during the period by the average monthly active customers during the period. 4. Total ARPU is calculated by dividing the average monthly service revenue by the average monthly active customers during the period.

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Exchange rates Average

Closing

30 September

USD/ZAR ZAR/MZN ZAR/TZS EUR/ZAR

2015

2014

12.54 3.06 166.43 13.92

10.66 2.92 155.86 14.36

31 March % change 17.6 4.8 6.8 (3.1)

30 September

31 March

2015

2015

2014

% change

2015

11.07 2.89 154.72 13.99

13.86 3.07 155.71 15.50

11.30 2.75 148.44 14.27

22.7 11.6 4.9 8.6

12.14 3.03 152.63 13.03

Historical financial review Revenue September

June

March

December

September

June

March

2015

2015

2015

2014

2014

2014

2014

South Africa International Corporate and eliminations

16 098 4 435

15 598 4 095

15 879† 4 081

15 987 4 092

15 380†† 3 984

14 791 3 591

15 170 3 798

(134)

(165)

(86)

(95)

(164)

Revenue

20 397

19 559

19 795

19 993

19 259

18 287

18 804

September

June

March

December

September

June

March

2015

2015

2015

2014

2014

2014

2014

12 348 4 334

11 762 3 945

11 739† 3 950

11 856 3 975

11 995†† 3 873

11 442 3 493

11 982 3 684

(47)

(62)

(16)

(38)

(80)

15 660

15 627

15 815

14 897

15 586

Rm

(136)

(105)

Service revenue Rm South Africa International Corporate and eliminations Service revenue

(98) 16 584

(40) 15 828

Notes † During Q4, we consolidated a subsidiary, X-Link resulting in a positive adjustment of R164 million in South Africa. †† During Q2, we changed our accounting estimate relating to revenue recognition of un-recharged vouchers resulting in a positive adjustment of R325 million in South Africa.

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Historical key indicators South Africa September

June

March

December

September

June

March

2015

2015

2015

2014

2014

2014

2014

Active customers1 (thousand) Prepaid Contract

33 745 28 821 4 924

33 309 28 368 4 941

32 115 27 202 4 913

31 379 26 479 4 900

32 613 27 806 4 807

32 516 27 723 4 793

31 520 26 726 4 794

Active data customers2 (thousand)

17 811

17 741

16 595

16 751

16 679

16 996

15 172

1 854

1 767

1 672

1 613

1 578

1 512

1 443

MOU per month Prepaid Contract

130 119 189

124 113 184

129 118 188

130 120 188

124 113 190

122 112 181

122 112 179

Total ARPU5 (rand per month) Prepaid Contract

112 63 393

110 62 381

113 64 374

116 67 386

115 67 389

110 64 372

119 71 379

Traffic6 (millions of minutes) Outgoing Incoming

13 073 10 670 2 403

12 181 9 856 2 325

12 158 9 741 2 417

12 402 9 827 2 575

12 182 9 570 2 612

11 776 9 392 2 384

11 453 9 193 2 260

Machine-to-machine customers3 (thousand) 4

Notes: 1. Active customers are based on the total number of mobile customers using any service during the last three months. This includes customers paying a monthly fee that entitles them to use the service even if they do not actually use the service and those customers who are active whilst roaming. 2. Active data customers are a number of unique users who have generated revenue related to any data activities in the reported month (this excludes SMS and MMS messaging users). A unique user is a customer who needs to be counted once regardless of what data services they have utilised. A user is defined as a count of all active customers that have generated data revenue for a contractual monthly fee for this service or have used the service during the reported month. 3. Machine-to-machine (‘M2M’) is the remote wireless interchange between two or more predefined devices or a central station without direct relationship with an end customer, in order to support a specific business process or product. 4. Minutes of use (‘MOU’) per month is calculated by dividing the average monthly minutes (traffic) during the period by the average monthly active customers during the period. 5. Total ARPU is calculated by dividing the average monthly service revenue by the average monthly active customers during the period. Prepaid and contract ARPU only include service revenue generated from Vodacom mobile customers. 6. Traffic comprises total traffic registered on Vodacom‘s mobile network, including bundled minutes, promotional minutes and outgoing international roaming calls, but excluding national roaming calls, incoming international roaming calls and calls to free services.

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Historical key indicators International September

June

March

December

September

June

March

2015

2015

2015

2014

2014

2014

2014

Active customers1 (thousand) Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

31 373 12 521 12 118 5 464 1 270

30 193 11 996 11 922 5 031 1 244

29 533 12 172 11 216 4 877 1 268

29 676 11 810 11 493 5 049 1 324

28 367 11 316 11 003 4 913 1 135

27 086 10 638 10 502 4 604 1 342

25 969 10 284 10 008 4 333 1 344

Active data customers2 (thousand) Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

10 496 5 553 2 297 2 219 427

10 292 5 501 2 332 2 046 413

9 878 5 265 2 338 1 879 396

9 749 5 160 2 324 1 817 448

9 188 4 963 2 241 1 636 348

8 311 4 480 2 016 1 474 341

7 675 3 788 2 218 1 368 301

MOU per month3 Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

123 43 104 73

120 34 97 68

123 33 89 63

154 45 111 69

165 47 124 58

158 39 131 48

131 31 118 49

Total ARPU4 (rand per month) Tanzania DRC Mozambique Lesotho

38 39 51 62

36 35 51 62

39 32 51 60

43 30 55 58

45 33 52 50

42 31 49 43

43 35 52 41

6 265 3.0 157

6 046 2.9 154

5 952 2.7 146

6 593 2.7 156

6 978 3.1 147

6 655 3.0 146

6 377 3.2 150

Total ARPU4 (local currency per month) Tanzania (TZS) DRC (USD) Mozambique (MZN)

Notes: 1. Active customers are based on the total number of mobile customers using any service during the last three months. This includes customers paying a monthly fee that entitles them to use the service even if they do not actually use the service and those customers who are active whilst roaming. 2. Active data customers are a number of unique users who have generated revenue related to any data activities in the reported month (this excludes SMS and MMS messaging users). A unique user is a customer who needs to be counted once regardless of what data services they have utilised. A user is defined as a count of all active customers that have generated data revenue for a contractual monthly fee for this service or have used the service during the reported month. 3. Minutes of use (‘MOU’) per month is calculated by dividing the average monthly minutes (traffic) during the period by the average monthly active customers during the period. 4. Total ARPU is calculated by dividing the average monthly service revenue by the average monthly active customers during the period. Prepaid and contract ARPU only include service revenue generated from Vodacom mobile customers.

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Reconciliation of normalised and adjusted growth Foreign exchange September 2015 %

Reported1 % change

Trading Translation FX3 FX2 ppts ppts

NormaSA lised* adjustment4 ppts % change

Adjusted** % change

Revenue Group International South Africa

6.4 12.6 5.1

– – –

(0.5) (2.7) –

5.9 9.9 5.1

0.9 – 1.1

6.8 9.9 6.2

Service revenue Group International South Africa

4.9 12.4 2.9

– – –

(0.4) (2.1) –

4.5 10.3 2.9

1.1 – 1.4

5.6 10.3 4.3

Total cost International South Africa

15.3 1.3

(1.3) 1.2

(3.2) –

10.8 2.5

– n/a

10.8 n/a

EBITDA Group International South Africa

13.0 10.0 13.1

(1.4) 3.3 (2.3)

(0.2) (1.3) –

11.4 12.0 10.8

2.7 – 3.2

14.1 12.0 14.0

Reconciliation of normalised and adjusted growth September 2015 Rm

Reported

Trading FX2

Normalised*

Revenue Group International South Africa

39 956 8 530 31 696

– – –

39 956 8 530 31 696

Service revenue Group International South Africa

32 244 8 279 24 110

– – –

32 244 8 279 24 110

Total cost International South Africa

6 243 19 436

(77) 71

6 166 19 507

EBITDA Group International South Africa

14 681 2 405 12 262

7 77 (71)

14 688 2 482 12 191

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Reconciliation of normalised and adjusted growth Foreign exchange September 2014 Rm

Reported

Trading Translation FX2 FX3

NormaSA lised* adjustment4

Adjusted**

Revenue Group International South Africa

37 546 7 575 30 171

– – –

184 184 –

37 730 7 759 30 171

(325) – (325)

37 405 7 759 29 846

Service revenue Group International South Africa

30 725 7 366 23 437

– – –

141 141 –

30 866 7 507 23 437

(325) – (325)

30 541 7 507 23 112

Total cost International South Africa

5 414 19 189

(3) (155)

152 –

5 563 19 034

– n/a

5 563 n/a

EBITDA Group International South Africa

12 993 2 187 10 844

163 3 155

27 27 –

13 183 2 217 10 999

(308) – (308)

12 875 2 217 10 691

The reconciliation represents normalised growth at a constant currency (using current period as base) from on-going operations. The presentation of the pro-forma constant currency information from on-going operations is the responsibility of the directors of Vodacom Group Limited. The purpose of presenting this information is to assist the user in understanding the underlying growth trends in these segments. It has been prepared for illustrative purposes only and may not fairly present the financial position, changes in equity, and results of operations or cash flows of Vodacom Group Limited. This information has not been reviewed and reported on by the Group auditors, being PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.

Notes: 1. The reported percentage change relates to the year-on-year percentage growth from 30 September 2014 to 30 September 2015. The Group’s presentation currency is the South African rand. Our International operations include functional currencies for example in United States dollar, Tanzanian shilling, Mozambican metical, Nigerian naira and Zambian kwacha. The prevailing exchange rates for the current and comparative periods are disclosed on page 26. 2. Trading foreign exchange (‘FX’) are foreign exchange gains/losses on foreign denominated monetary assets and liabilities resulting from trading activities of entities within the Group. 3. Translation foreign exchange (‘FX’) arises from the translation of the results, at average rates, of subsidiaries’ functional currencies to Vodacom’s presentation currency, being rand. The exchange variances are eliminated by applying the six months ended 30 September 2015 average rate (which is derived by dividing the individual subsidiary’s translated rand value with the functional currency for the year) to 30 September 2014 numbers, thereby giving a user a view of the performance which excludes exchange variances. The prevailing exchange rates for the current and comparative periods are disclosed on page 26. 4. The South African adjustment relates to the impact of the change in the accounting estimate of un-recharged vouchers reported in the first half of the 2015 financial year.

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Vodacom Group Limited Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2015

Corporate information Non-IFRS information The auditor’s report does not necessarily cover all of the information contained in this announcement. Shareholders are therefore advised that in order to obtain a full understanding of the nature of the auditor’s work they should obtain a copy of that report together with the accompanying financial information from the registered office of the company. This announcement contains certain non-IFRS financial measures which has not been reviewed or reported on by the Group’s auditors. The Group’s management believes these measures provide valuable additional information in understanding the performance of the Group or the Group’s businesses because they provide measures used by the Group to assess performance. However, this additional information presented is not uniformly defined by all companies, including those in the Group’s industry. Accordingly, it may not be comparable with similarly titled measures and disclosures by other companies. Additionally, although these measures are important in the management of the business, they should not be viewed in isolation or as replacements for or alternatives to, but rather as complementary to, the comparable IFRS measures. Refer above for detail relating to EBITDA and headline earnings per share.

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Forward-looking statements This announcement which sets out the interim results for Vodacom Group Limited for the six months ended 30 September 2015 contains ‘forward-looking statements’, which have not been reviewed or reported on by the Group’s auditors, with respect to the Group’s financial condition, results of operations and businesses and certain of the Group’s plans and objectives. In particular, such forward-looking statements include statements relating to: the Group’s future performance; future capital expenditures, acquisitions, divestitures, expenses, revenues, financial conditions, dividend policy, and future prospects; business and management strategies relating to the expansion and growth of the Group; the effects of regulation of the Group’s businesses by governments in the countries in which it operates; the Group’s expectations as to the launch and roll out dates for products, services or technologies; expectations regarding the operating environment and market conditions; growth in customers and usage; and the rate of dividend growth by the Group. Forward-looking statements are sometimes, but not always, identified by their use of a date in the future or such words as ‘will’, ‘anticipates’, ‘aims’, ‘could’, ‘may’, ‘should’, ‘expects’, ‘believes’, ‘intends’, ‘plans’ or ‘targets’. By their nature, forward-looking statements are inherently predictive, speculative and involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other facts or factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Group, or its industry to be materially different from any results, performance or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on assumptions regarding the Group’s present and future business strategies and the environments in which it operates now and in the future.

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Vodacom Group Limited

Transfer secretary

(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) Registration number: 1993/005461/06 (ISIN: ZAE000132577 Share Code: VOD) (ISIN: US92858D2009 ADR code: VDMCY) (‘Vodacom’)

Computershare Proprietary Limited (Registration number: 2000/006082/07) 70 Marshall Street, Johannesburg 2001 (PO Box 61051, Marshalltown 2107)

Sponsor Directors MP Moyo (Chairman), MS Aziz Joosub (CEO), T Streichert (CFO)1, DH Brown, M Joseph2, TM Mokgosi-Mwantembe, PJ Moleketi, JWL Otty3, M Pieters4, RAW Schellekens4, S Timuray5 1. German 2. American 3. British 4 Dutch 5. Turkish

UBS South Africa (Pty) Limited

ADR depository bank Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas

Media relations Tshepo Ramodibe

Company secretary SF Linford

Investor relations Monique Nienaber

Registered office Vodacom Corporate Park, 082 Vodacom Boulevard, Midrand 1685 (Private Bag X9904, Sandton 2146)

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