Ad-hoc | 10 November 2006 07:46

United Internet posts best result in company’s history

Ad hoc announcement transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Ad-hoc announcement acc. to Sec. 15 WpHG United Internet posts best result in company’s history Montabaur, November 10, 2006. The Management Board and Supervisory Board of United Internet AG today announced the Group’s consolidated results according to IFRS for the first nine months of 2006. The figures represent the best result in the company’s history. Consolidated sales of United Internet AG were up some 68.2 % on the same period last year to stand at EUR 914.0 million (prior year: EUR 543.3 million). Earnings also made very strong progress: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) grew by 113.8 % from EUR 87.7 million (prior-year figure) to EUR 187.5 million. Earnings before taxes (EBT) of the United Internet Group were raised by 100.7 % from EUR 73.2 million (prior-year figure) to EUR 146.9 million. Depreciation of tangible and intangible assets grew from EUR 16.2 million last year to EUR 40.3 million in the period under review. This figure includes around EUR 16.0 million for the amortization of identified and capitalized intangible assets in connection with company acquisitions, resulting from the takeover of WEB.DE’s portal business and CibleClick in late 2005 and the completed acquisition of Fasthosts in May 2006. Cash flow from operating activities rose to EUR 130.4 million (prior year: EUR 61.3 million). Earnings per share (EPS) amounted to EUR 0.35 (prior-year figure adjusted for share split: EUR 0.19). The number of fee-based customer contracts rose to 6.13 million as of September 30, 2006 (prior year: 4.21 million). Divided according to product lines, the customer contract figures comprise 1.13 million contracts in the field of Information Management (prior year: 0.44 million), 2.73 million (of which 1.16 million outside Germany) in Webhosting (prior year: 2.01 million – of which 0.54 million outside Germany) and 2.27 million (prior year: 1.76 million) in Access – of which 2.09 million DSL customers (prior year: 1.53 million). Up to 540 million telephone minutes are completed per month (prior year: 175 million). The number of DSL connection customers also grew strongly to 1.59 million (prior year: 0.72 million). In € million Jan. – Sept. 2006 Jan. – Sept. 2005 Growth Sales 914.0 543.3 68.2 % EBITDA 187.5 87.7 113.8 % EBT 146.9 73.2 100.7 % EPS in € 0.35 0.19 89.2 % In € million 3rd quarter 2006 3rd quarter 2005 Growth Sales 316.9 207.9 52.4 % EBITDA 69.4 32.1 116.2 % EBT 55.3 27.5 101.1 % EPS in € 0.14 0.07 100.0 % Marcus Schaps Press spokesman United Internet AG United Internet AG Elgendorferstrasse 57 56410 Montabaur Germany Tel: +49 2602/96-1076 Fax: +49 2602/96-1013 E-mail: mschaps@united-internet.de Internet: www.united-internet.de (c)DGAP 10.11.2006 ————————————————————————— Language: English Issuer: United Internet AG Elgendorfer Straße 57 56410 Montabaur Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)260 296-1631 Fax: +49 (0)260 296-1013 E-mail: Investor-Relations@United-Internet.de WWW: www.United-Internet.de ISIN: DE0005089031 WKN: 508903 Indices: TecDAX Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————