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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
2013. We present the licences by frequency band since in many markets, including the majority of Northern and Central Europe, and Southern
Europe, they can be used for a variety of technologies including 2G, 3G and LTE. Since 2011 we have successfully renewed licences close to expiry
in Australia, Malta and Greece on reasonable terms, and have secured short-term extensions prior to auctions in Romania and the Netherlands. In all
cases where some of our existing spectrum has been re-auctioned (Greece, Romania, Ireland and the Netherlands) we have acquired new licences
through the auction.
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
Northern and Central Europe
Germany December 2025 December 2016 December 2016 December 20201December 2025
UK March 2033 See note2See note2December 2021 March 2033
Czech Republic n/a January 2021 January 2021 February 2025 n/a
Hungary n/a July 20143July 20143December 20193n/a
Ireland July 2030 July 2030 July 2030 October 2022 n/a
Netherlands December 2029 February 2030 February 2030 December 2016 May 2030
Romania April 2029 April 2029 April 2029 March 2020 April 2029
Turkey n/a April 2023 –April 2029 n/a
Southern Europe
Italy December 2029 February 2015 February 20154December 2021 December 2029
Spain December 2030 February 2020 December 2030 April 2020 December 2030
Albania n/a June 2016 June 2016 December 2025 n/a
Greece n/a September 20275December 20265August 2021 n/a
Malta n/a August 2026 August 2026 August 2020 n/a
Portugal March 2027 October 20216October 20216January 2016 March 2027
Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacic
India7n/a November 2014
–December 2026
November 2014
–December 2026
September 2030 n/a
Vodacom: South Africa n/a See note8See note8See note8n/a
Egypt n/a January 2022 January 2022 January 2022 n/a
Ghana n/a December 2019 December 2019 December 20239n/a
New Zealand n/a November 2031 March 2021 March 2021 December 2028
Qatar n/a June 2028 June 2028 June 2028 n/a
Notes:
1 2x5 MHz (out of 2x15 MHz) of 2.1 GHz spectrum will expire in December 2025.
2 Indenite licence with a ve year notice of revocation.
3 Options to extend these licences.
4 2x5 MHz of 1800 MHz spectrum will expire in 2029.
5 2x15 MHz of the 1800 MHz spectrum will expire in August 2016.
6 2x3 MHz of 900 MHz must be released by December 2015 and 2x14 MHz of 1800 MHz spectrum does not expire until March 2027.
7 India is comprised of 22 separate service area licences with a variety of expiry dates.
8 Vodacom’s South African spectrum licences are renewed annually. As part of the migration to a new licensing regime the national regulator 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 a 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.
9 The national regulator has issued provisional licences with the intention of converting these to full licences once the national regulator board has been reconvened.
Regulation (continued)
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