06 November 2017

Vodafone Group Plc ('Vodafone')

ISIN Code: GB00BH4HKS39

Transaction in Own Shares

Vodafone announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 0.20 US cents on Exchange (as defined in the Rules of the London Stock Exchange) from J.P. Morgan Securities plc ('J.P. Morgan') as part of its buy-back programme announced on 31 August 2017 (the 'Programme'). The sole purpose of this Programme is to reduce the issued share capital of Vodafone to avoid an increase in the issued share capital as a result of the maturing of the first tranche of a two-tranche mandatory convertible bond ('MCB') issued by Vodafone in February 2016. As announced on 19 February 2016, when the MCB was issued Vodafone also entered into an accompanying option structure.

Date of purchase:

03 November 2017

Number of ordinary shares of 20 US cents each purchased:

13,255,946

Highest price paid per share (pence):

222.4500

Lowest price paid per share (pence):

218.0000

Volume weighted average price paid per share (pence):

219.6900

Vodafone intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the settlement of the purchased shares, Vodafone will hold 2,037,159,619 of its ordinary shares in treasury and have 26,777,530,309 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).[1]

As part of the Programme, J.P. Morgan (JPMSGB2L)may elect to purchase Vodafone ordinary shares and sell such shares to Vodafone and/or sell to Vodafone ordinary shares it already holds at the start of the Programme as a result of its role in the accompany option structure entered into by Vodafone when the MCB was issued. In connection with the above purchases, on 03 November 2017J.P. Morgan (as principal) elected to:

· sell 6,627,881 Vodafoneordinary shares it held at the start of the Programmeto Vodafone. Vodafone purchased such shares at 219.3500pence per share as one transaction at 17:22 (GMT) on the London Stock Exchange (transaction reference:7903572704031434337-20171103); and

· purchase 6,628,065 Vodafone ordinary shares to sell to Vodafone. A schedule of individual trades carried out by J.P. Morgan on 03 November 2017 is set out below. Such ordinary shares were sold to Vodafone as one transaction at 17:21 (GMT) on the London Stock Exchange at the volume weighted average price paid per share by J.P. Morgan for such shares which is set out below (transaction reference: below).

Schedule of purchases - aggregate information

Trading venue

Volume weighted average price (pence per share)

Aggregated volume

LSE

219.3500

6,627,881

LSE

220.03

6,628,065

Schedule of purchases - individual transactions

To view the schedule of purchases, please paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/5828V_-2017-11-3.pdf

This announcement will also be available on Vodafone's website at: http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/investors/investor_information/press_regulatory/uk_regulatory.html

Enquiries to:

Investor relations: Telephone +44 (0) 7919 990 230

Media: www.vodafone.com/media/contact

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