ecotel communication ag / Miscellaneous

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On request of ecotel’s management board the district court of Düsseldorf has appointed Mr. Mag. Reinhold Oblak as new member of the supervisory board with effective date of April 1, 2008. Due to the retirement of Mr. Tobias Schreyer, member of the supervisory board since January 2006, the management has proposed Mr. Oblak (in coordination with the supervisory board) to the district court in Düsseldorf to become a new member of the supervisory board according to § 104 AktG.

Mr. Oblak was born in 1963. After his studies of politics and communication he has been working as journalist for politics and economics. Later he has been spokesperson of two Austrian health ministers and spokesperson of the international printed circuit board producer AT&S AG for six years. Since February 2005 he is member of the board of the global investment company AvW Group AG (Krumpendorf, Austria), which owns more than 10% of the share capital of ecotel communication ag.



About ecotel communication ag:

ecotel is a 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 provides more than 45.000 business customers within Germany with standardised and individual telecommunications solutions and consistently pushes its of fixed mobile convergence (FMC) strategy.
In its second division 'Wholesale Customers' the company provides carrier and wholesale services to other telecoms operators and to non-industry 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' comprises ecotel’s fast growing subsidiaries and new ventures. Apart from PPRO, easybell, ecotel private and toBEmobile the division also includes nacamar’s New Media business, which will be transferred into an independent business unit.

ecotel was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf. At present, the group has 220 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 three consecutive years.


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
E-Mail: presse@ecotel.de

Fachmedien
Alexandra Rath (Leitung Marketing / PR)
Tel.: 0211-55 007-310
Fax: 0211-55 007 5 310
E-Mail: presse@ecotel.de

Further information: www.ecotel.de.




04.04.2008  Financial News transmitted by DGAP

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Language:     English
Issuer:       ecotel communication ag
              Prinzenallee 9-11
              40549 Düsseldorf
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)211 55 00 70
Fax:          +49 (0)211 55 00 7 222
E-mail:       info@ecotel.de
Internet:     http://www.ecotel.de
ISIN:         DE0005854343
WKN:          585434
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Düsseldorf  
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