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Ecotel Communication AG Prinzenallee 11 40549 Düsseldorf, Germany http://www.ecotel.de
Contact Ms Annette Drescher +49 211 55007740

ecotel: business performance in 2009 on track

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- Stabilizes revenues and EBITDA
- Increase of cash via KfW loan and settlement with Tiscali
- Revenue guidance of appr. € 100 million and EBITDA guidance of € 5-6 million for 2009

ecotel achieved revenues of € 72.5 million (€ 79.1million) in the first nine months of 2009. The ordinary course of business is on track despite the difficult economic situation; third quarter revenues were € 24.1 million and thus on par with the previous quarter's revenues.

EBITDA in the third quarter was € 1.3 million and equal to the previous quarter's EBITDA. The cumulated EBITDA for the first nine months of 2009 was € 3.8 million (€4.8 million). EBIT in the first nine months was € 0.9 million (€ 2.2 million). The amicable settlement with Tiscali led to a positive finance result and Net income for the first nine months of € 1.2 million (€ 0.9 million). This amounts to earnings per share of € 0.31.

Due to extraordinary effects (settlement with Tiscali and KfW loan) the company was able to strengthen its liquid funds and its cash position to € 4.4 million. In addition, ecotel reduced its net debt from € 12.2 million to € 9.8 million. The equity ratio grew from 42.2% to 43.1%.

As a first success in the area of product development ecotel meanwhile sells full access product bundles based on the infrastructure of alternative carriers (e.g.Versatel) in called "onnet" regions in addition to full access products of Deutsche Telekom AG. ecotel intends to offer this product to business customer with the need of a "real" ISDN access line at attractive prices. By means of a migration from preselection- to full access products ecotel expects to stabilize its customer base and to strengthen its competitive position with net additions to its customer base.

Against of the background of its current business performance ecotel maintains its guidance for 2009 and expects to generate revenues of appr. € 95-100 million and to generate an EBITDA adjusted for extraordinary cost and revenues of € 5 million.Furthermore, the company expects to reduce its net debt to Zero until 2011.

The quarterly report Q3 2009 can be downloaded from the company's website at www.ecotel.de.

Ecotel Communication AG

ecotel is a publicly listed telecommunications company which operates in Germany and focuses on three business divisions.

In its core division "Business Customers" the company offers an integrated product portfolio of voice, data and mobile services. ecotel meanwhile serves appr. 35.000 business customers within Germany with standardised and individual telecommunications solutions and consistently implements its fixed mobile convergence (FMC) strategy.

In its second division "Wholesale Customers" the company provides carrier and wholesale services to other telecoms operators and to nonindustry distributors.ecotel deploys state of the art enabling and switching platforms in order to provide its product portfolio (unbundled local loops, broadband access lines, mobile services) to other resellers. At the same time the company achieves economics of scale and broadens its value chain for its own core business "business customers".

The division "New Business" contains ecotel's fast growing subsidiaries and new ventures. Apart from PPRO, easybell, this division also includes the New Media business, which has been transferred into this unit.

ecotel was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf. At present, the group has appr. 200 employees. It is among the fastest growing technology companies and was ranked among the top 50 companies in the Deloitte "Technology Fast 50" competition for the past four consecutive years.

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