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Vodafone Germany

Vodafone Group’s German operating company (Vodafone GmbH), headquartered in Düsseldorf; cable in NRW, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg sits in the sister entity Vodafone West GmbH. Named the first market for Ericsson’s programmable-network platform under the October 2025 group agreement.

Headquarters
Parent
100%
Ownership
Subsidiary2025-11-10source ↗
Revenue
EUR 12.133bnFY2026source ↗
Customers
ConsumerEnterprise
Domains
MobileFixed & fibreRAN

MVNOs on this network2

  • — tariffs from 'Telekom,' 'Vodafone,' and 'o2 & Telefonica' as separate offerings
  • — Partner von Telekom Deutschland und Vodafone

Brands it runs itself1

  • Lidl Connect — retail brand; Lidl’s brand on an offer of Vodafone GmbH, the sole contracting party

Technology2

BSS

OSS

People1

Leadership as the company names it; dates only where a source states them.

  • Marcel de Groot · CEO↗since Apr 2024

Relationships6

Owned by

Hosted MVNOs

Suppliers

  • 14 Oct 2025
  • 3 Mar 2026

Signals3

  • 3 Mar 2026
  • 14 Oct 2025
  • 24 Mar 2025

Ecosystem

  • owned by

    • active · Documented · 100%
  • hosts

    • Mobile · tariffs from 'Telekom,' 'Vodafone,' and 'o2 & Telefonica' as separate offeringsactive · Reported
    • Mobile · Partner von Telekom Deutschland und Vodafoneactive · Company statement
  • supplied by

    • RAN · major RAN vendor; first market for the programmable-network platform and rAppsactive · 14 Oct 2025 · Documented
    • BSS · unified order management across the cable portfolio; commercial launch Mar 2026, migration to 2029, public cloudactive · 3 Mar 2026 · Company statement
    • OSS · Next Generation Service Assurance for mobile, fixed and cable networksactive · Documented

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