Corporate | 16 December 2005 08:59

United Internet tops 5 million mark in customer contracts

Corporate-news transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Press release United Internet tops 5 million mark in customer contracts 1.75 million DSL customers expected by year-end Montabaur, December 16, 2005. Following the integration of WEB.DE’s portal business and due to dynamic growth in its year-end business, United Internet AG signed its 5-millionth customer contract yesterday. Originally planned for 2008, the company has thus reached this particular target as early as 2005. As of December 15, 2005 the number of customer contracts in the United Internet Group passed the 5 million mark. With regard to product lines, the figure can be divided into 0.99 million contracts in the field of Information Management (including 0.53 million WEB.DE club customers), 2.08 million in Webhosting and 1.94 million in the Access segment – including 1.72 million DSL contracts. “With expected growth of 1.55 million customers this year, 2005 will be the company’s best ever fiscal year,” says Ralph Dommermuth, CEO of United Internet AG. “Our most important growth drivers are the ongoing high demand for broadband connections and the successful international expansion of our webhosting business,” continues Dommermuth. United Internet expects to reach 1.75 million DSL contracts (prior year: 1.05 million) and 0.60 million foreign hosting contracts (prior year: 0.37 million) by year-end 2005. With over 5 million customer contracts, United Internet AG is one of the leading Internet Service Providers (ISP). In its “Product” segment, the Group’s value-added internet services and fast internet connections are directed at private users, small/home offices (SoHos) and small to mid-size enterprises (SMEs). These groups are served by the brands GMX, WEB.DE, 1&1 and Schlund+Partner. In addition to its “Product” business, the Group is also engaged in “Outsourcing” (via the brands InterNetX and twenty4help) as well as “Online Marketing” (via the brands AdLINK, Sedo and affilinet). Contact partner: Marcus Schaps United Internet AG Press spokesman Phone: +49 2602/96-1076 Fax: +49 2602/96-1013 E-mail: mschaps@united-internet.de End of announcement (c)DGAP 16.12.2005 —————————————————————————— WKN: 508903; ISIN: DE0005089031; Index: TecDAX Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin- Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, München und Stuttgart