ecotel communication ag / Miscellaneous Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Düsseldorf, April 2, 2008 ecotel communication ag announces the buy-back of the 10% outstanding shares of the nacamar management team and holds again a 100% ownership of nacamar as of April 2, 2008. The purchase agreement has been signed with the individual acquisition companies of the nacamar management team, which has acquired 10% of the shares of nacamar GmbH as part of a management buy out (MBO) on May 3, 2007. The seller and buyer agreed not to disclose the purchase price. ecotel is therefore able to fully integrate nacamar into the ecotel group and to leverage the planned synergies. In order to strengthen its competitive position ecotel is currently consolidating the voice-, data- and mobile services into the core business division 'Business Customers'. nacamar’s New Media business will be transferred into a separate business division and will thus obtain a greater independence and stronger focus within the ecotel group. As part of the transaction Frederick Iwans and Udo Schienmann have stepped down from their office as managing directors of nacamar with effective date of today. Holger Gutenberger has already left the company on September 21, 2007. Mr. Iwans and Mr. Schienmann continue to work for nacamar GmbH as consultants. ecotel’s CEO Peter Zils and CFO Bernhard Seidl, who have been co-managing directors of nacamar since September 25, 2007, continue to run the business of nacamar and the integration of nacamar and ecotel. 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 Email: presse@ecotel.de Fachmedien Alexandra Rath (Leitung Marketing/ PR) Tel.: 0211-55 007-310 Fax: 0211-55 007 5 310 Email: presse@ecotel.de Further information: www.ecotel.de. 02.04.2008 Financial News transmitted by DGAP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------