Ad-hoc | 7 November 2002 08:04

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freenet.de AG succeeds again with large customer increases and is in the black Ad-hoc-announcement transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ——————————————————————————– Q3/02: freenet.de AG succeeds again with large customer increases and is in the black Q3/02-EBITDA/IAS with 3.88mill.EUR clearly positive(Q3/01:-5.1mill.EUR);a clearly positive Q3/02-EBT/IAS with +2.54mill.EUR(Q3/01:-6.24 mill.EUR);9 months’ revenues of just under 29mill.EUR and a gross profit of 91% over the total revenues for 2001 of 27.95mill.EUR;Strong customer increase:3.4mill. active access customers(end of Q3/02) Like Q2/02 freenet.de again has a clearly positive EBITDA realized of 3.88mill.EUR in Q3/02(Q3/01:-5.1mill.EUR).In this regard, the EBITDA margin is at almost 40%, calculated on revenue.The Q3/02-EBT result as of plus 2.54mill.EUR is also clearly in the profitability zone. The Q3/01-EBT was at – 6.24mill.EUR, meaning, freenet.de has improved on this result within just one year by nearly 9mill.EUR a quarter. The Q3/02-group result of 1.29mill.EUR is positive for the first time(Q3/01:-3.88mill.EUR).After the first 9 months 2002, freenet.de also has achieved with 4.68mill.EUR a clearly positive EBITDA(- 11.05mill.EUR in the same period of 2001). With a positive 9-months-EBT in 2002 as of plus 0.82mill.EUR,freenet.de is also EBT profitable on an accumulated basis (-13.12mill.EUR in the first 9 months 2001). In Q3/02, freenet.de has achieved a new record by generating 10.16mill.EUR total revenues – a plus of 60% compared to Q3/01 (6.33mill.EUR). As already in Q2/02, the segments of advertising and e-commerce indicate the most vigorous growth in Q3/02. For the first 9 months 2002, an accumulated revenue of 28.84 mill.EUR was earned – an increase of 50% compared to the first 9 months 2001 (19.22mill.EUR). End of Q3/02, 3.4 million households are using a freenet.de internet-access – alone 167,000 new customers in Q3/02 were acquired. Q3/2002 Q2/2002 Q3/2001 Q1-Q3/2002 Q1-Q3/2001 Revenues 10,163 9,665 6,334 28,837 19,222 E-Commerce 2,384 2,131 1,711 6,054 4,597 Advertising 3,338 3,158 1,321 9,304 4,353 Connectivity 4,122 4,160 2,572 12,761 8,667 B-2-B 319 216 731 718 1,606 EBITDA 3,884 2,381 -5,100 4,676 -11,051 EBT 2,539 1,021 -6,241 817 -13,122 Group result 1,289 -2 -3,884 -258 -8,041 (Financial data: IAS; in thousand Euro/Source:freenet.de AG) end of ad-hoc-announcement (c)DGAP 07.11.2002 Issuer’s information/explanatory remarks concerning this ad-hoc-announcement: “With regards to the upcoming quarter, we speak about a clearly EBT-profitable quarter if the situation at MobilCom stabilizes and bad debt loss can be avoided”, says Eckhard Spoerr, CEO of freenet.de AG. “That situation will be resolved very soon”, according to Spoerr. Due to sustained positive business development, freenet.de has succeeded in increasing cash and cash equivalents by the end of the third quarter from 57.33 mill.EUR (Q2/02) to 59.43 mill.EUR. ——————————————————————————– WKN: 579200; ISIN: DE0005792006; Index: Listed: Neuer Markt in Frankfurt; Freiverkehr in Berlin, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart, Hannover 070804 Nov 02