Vodafone Germany's network serves both prepaid and postpaid customers on GSM and LTE (Long Term Evolution).

[4] The company in its present form resulted from Vodafone's takeover of the German engineering group Mannesmann GmbH in 2000.

On 8 December 1989, the West German Federal Ministry for Posts and Telecommunications (Bundesministerium für Post und Telekommunikation [de]; one of several predecessors of the present-day Bundesnetzagentur) awarded the second digital GSM-900 (also known as D-Netz (D-Netz [de]; D-Network in Germany) network in Germany to Mannesmann, as the first private company in Germany to break the monopoly of the telecommunications services operated by Deutsche Bundespost (now Deutsche Telekom).

In February 2011, Vodafone Germany started providing IPTV via DSL and VDSL connections.

[6] Following Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany started selling the Apple iPhone 4S in September 2011.