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ecotel acquires another competitor and signs a long term sales partnerhip
Düsseldorf, July 2, 2007
ecotel communication ag has signed an agreement to acquire all shares of ADTG Allgemeine Telefondienstleistungs GmbH, Rathenow/Brandenburg, one of the biggest telecommunications resellers for Business customers in Germany. The transaction has an effective date of January 1, 2007. Simultaneously ecotel enters into a long term sales partnership for fixed and mobile telecommunications services with the former owners of ADTG.
The acquisition is in line with ecotel’s strategy to consolidate the German reseller market und enables ecotel to secure additional market share in the B2B segment. In addition, ecotel ex-pects synergies on procurement and efficiency increases through an optimization of the or-ganisational structure.

ADTG is a supplier of telecommunication services for fixed and mobile products for business customers and has appr. 5.600 business customers across Germany. ADTG expects reve-nues of over Euro 7 Mio for 2007. Sales are done exclusively via indirect sales over a nationwide sales partner network. The most important sales partners are the sellers of ADTG: CBTEL (Rathenow), MaKoTec GmbH (Osnabrück), MPC Service GmbH (Heidelberg) and BTD Telekommunikation GmbH (München).

The seller group has one of the biggest independent telecommunications sales teams in Germany. An essential part of the transaction is the setup of a long term sales partnership with ecotel. A further part of the cooperation includes the recommendation towards the gen-eral assembly to elect Mirko Mach, managing director of MPC Service GmbH, as new mem-ber of the ecotel’s supervisory board.

ADTG will initially continue to exist as a standalone company within the ecotel group. A full integration into ecotel is planned in the following months with a full takeover of the 15 ADTG employees.
The purchase price consists of cash and equity from ecotel’s authorized stock with the major part of the purchase price in stock. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place in the next weeks. The seller and buyer agreed not to disclose the purchase price.


 
About ecotel communication ag:

As a telecommunications company that operates throughout Germany, ecotel communication ag specialises in the requirements of small and mediumsized enterprises. In its core 'Business Customer Solutions' division, ecotel offers innovative voice, data and value added services including direct connections as a full, lowcost package from a single source. Since ac-quiring Tiscali Nacamar GmbH in March 2007 (now operating under nacamar GmbH), ecotel also has professional data services such as secure networking of corporate locations (VPN) in its portfolio and operates its own German backbone network including a data centre in Frankfurt. The Company now provides more than 40.000 business customers from all sectors throughout Germany with standardised and individual telecommunications solutions .
In its second division 'Resale' the company provides telecoms carrier services to other telecoms operators and non-industry distributors as well as wholesale services. In addition, ecotel operates a state-of-the-art Wholesale platform for the inter company trade of telephony minutes with over 70 national and international carriers and broadens its value chain for the core business 'business customers'.

ecotel was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf. At present, the group has over 200 employees. It is among the fastest growing technology companies and was ranked 8th and 38th in 2005 and 2006 in the Deloitte 'Technology Fast 50' competition.


Please note:

This publication does not constitute an offer for the sale of shares in the company or a solicitation of an offer for the purchase of shares in the company. Furthermore this publication shall not constitute a securities prospectus. This document must not be distributed outside of Germany, in particular not in the United States of America, Canada, Australia or Japan.

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Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News:
Please note:

This publication does not constitute an offer for the sale of shares in the company or a solicitation of an offer for the purchase of shares in the company. Furthermore this publication shall not constitute a securities prospectus. This document must not be distributed outside of Germany, in particular not in the United States of America, Canada, Australia or Japan.


Press contact:

ecotel communication ag

Wirtschafts- und Finanzmedien
Annette Drescher (Assistentin des Vorstandes)
Tel.: 0211-55 007-740
Fax: 0211-55 007 5 740
Email: presse@ecotel.de

Fachmedien
Alexandra Rath
Tel.: 0211-55 007-310
Fax: 0211-55 007 5 310
Email: presse@ecotel.de

Further information: www.ecotel.de.



DGAP 02.07.2007 

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Language:     English
Issuer:       ecotel communication ag
              Prinzenallee 9-11
              40549 Düsseldorf Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)211 55 00 7300
Fax:          +49 (0)211 55 00 75300
E-mail:       achim.theis@ecotel.de
Internet:     www.ecotel.de
ISIN:         DE0005854343
WKN:          585434
Indices:      
Listed: Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, München, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart;               Entry Standard in Frankfurt
 
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