Vodafone Germany

Vodafone GmbH is a German subsidiary of Vodafone Plc, a company based in the UK. It provides mobile phone, DSL, LTE, cable internet, landlines, cable TV and IPTV services to customers in Germany. As of the second quarter of 2016, Vodafone GmbH has 41.89 million mobile customers in Germany, making it the second largest provider of mobile phone services in Germany. (The largest is Telefónica Germany.) The company's headquarters are in the Düsseldorf suburb of Heerdt, with regional offices throughout Germany.

The company was formed as a result of Vodafone's takeover of the German engineering group Mannesmann GmbH in 2000. It was the second digital (GSM) network licensed in Germany. It was rebranded Vodafone D2 in 2002.

Vodafone Germany's network serves both prepaid and postpaid customers on GSM and UMTS (with HSDPA). In December 2010, Vodafone started providing LTE (Long Term Evolution) services.

In February 2011, Vodafone Germany started providing IPTV via DSL and VDSL connections. In April 2011, Vodafone Germany started to distribute Disney content via IPTV.

At the end of 2010, Vodafone had 36.676 million mobile phone or mobile internet customers and 3.945 million customers with a DSL / VDSL connection.

Following T-Mobile, Vodafone Germany started selling the Apple iPhone 4S in September 2011.

As of 2014, the company owns around 75% of Kabel Deutschland.

The company sponsored the AMG-Mercedes team in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Blancpain Sprint Series and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.