EANS-Adhoc: United Internet sales up 13%

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3-month report

11.05.2010

• Sales grow 13% from EUR 409.4 million last year to EUR 462.8
million • EBITDA up 8.1% from EUR 83.5 million to EUR 90.3 million •
Group confirms forecast with growth in consolidated sales of approx.
15% and EBITDA at last year´s record level

Montabaur, May 11, 2010. The Management Board of United Internet AG
(ISIN DE0005089031) today announced the consolidated results
according to IFRS for the first quarter of 2010.

Group development

Consolidated sales of United Internet AG grew by 13.0% in the first
quarter of 2010, from EUR 409.4 million last year to EUR 462.8
million. Despite high expenses for the current DSL quality drive and
start-up costs for new business fields, earnings before interest,
taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) improved by 8.1%, from
EUR 83.5 million to EUR 90.3 million. Due in particular to scheduled
higher depreciation following the acquisition of freenet´s DSL
customers, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) remained
virtually unchanged at EUR 70.7 million (prior year: EUR 70.8
million). Earnings per share (EPS) improved slightly from EUR 0.16
last year to EUR 0.17.

|Quarter-on-quarter comparison |Q1 2009 |Q1 2010 |Change |
|(in EUR million) | | | |
|Sales |409.4 |462.8 |+ 13.0% |
|EBITDA |83.5 |90.3 |+ 8.1% |
|EBIT |70.8 |70.7 |- 0.1% |

Segment development

"Access" segment
In the "Access" segment, sales in the first quarter of 2010 grew by 19.3% to
EUR 300.8 million. EBITDA improved by 42.2% to EUR 31.7 million, while EBIT grew
by 17.2% to EUR 25.2 million due to scheduled write-downs on the acquired
freenet DSL customer base.

|Quarter-on-quarter comparison |Q1 2009 |Q1 2010 |Change |
|(in EUR million) | | | |
|Sales |252.1 |300.8 |+ 19.3% |
|EBITDA |22.3 |31.7 |+ 42.2% |
|EBIT |21.5 |25.2 |+ 17.2% |

Compared to December 31, 2009, the number of fee-based contracts in this

segment remained stable at 3.50 million, of which 3.31 million were
DSL contracts. A further 90,000 complete DSL contracts (of particular
importance for customer retention) were added in the period under
review. With the aid of an MVNO agreement (Mobile Virtual Network
Operator) signed with Vodafone in March 2010, United Internet will
increasingly target the dynamically growing mobile internet market
from summer 2010 onward.

|Customer contracts (in million) |March 31, |Dec. 31, |March 31, |
| |2009 |2009 |2010 |
|Access, total |3.02 |3.50 |3.50 |
| of which DSL |2.82 |3.31 |3.31 |
| of which DSL complete |1.05 |1.82 |1.91 |
| of which resale DSL / T-DSL |1.77 |1.49 |1.40 |
| of which narrowband / mobile |0.20 |0.19 |0.19 |

"Applications" segment
In the "Applications" segment, significant investments were made in customer
growth during the first quarter of 2010. This helped boost the number of fee-
based contracts by 180,000 to 5.83 million world-wide. Sales growth in this
segment was slowed by the contract conversion of a major customer of AdLINK
subsidiary affilinet in late 2009. As a result, listed subsidiary AdLINK
Internet Media AG posted a fall in sales of 23.5% in the first quarter of 2010
- whereas the rest of the segment enjoyed growth of 11.2%. Total segment sales
thus grew by 3.0% from EUR 157.1 million to EUR 161.8 million. Despite increased
marketing expenses and high pre-launch costs for new applications, segment
EBITDA and EBIT grew by 3.2% to EUR 60.5 million and by 1.3% to EUR 47.4
million, respectively.

|Quarter-on-quarter comparison |Q1 2009 |Q1 2010 |Change |
|(in EUR million) | | | |
|Sales |157.1 |161.8 |+ 3.0% |
|EBITDA |58.6 |60.5 |+ 3.2% |
|EBIT |46.8 |47.4 |+ 1.3% |

Customer contracts outside Germany grew to 2.30 million and accounted for
80,000 of total growth in customer contracts of 180,000. The number of ad-
financed accounts increased from 26.3 million to over 27.0 million in the first
quarter.

|Customer contracts (in million) |March 31, |Dec. 31, |March 31, |
| |2009 |2009 |2010 |
|Total fee-based contracts |5.22 |5.65 |5.83 |
| of which domestic |3.24 |3.43 |3.53 |
| of which foreign |1.98 |2.22 |2.30 |
|Ad-financed accounts |25.5 |26.3 |27.0 |

Outlook

In view of the successful start to fiscal 2010, the company confirms
its forecasts and expects consolidated sales to grow by around 15%.
Despite high expenses for the current DSL quality drive and further
increased development and marketing costs in the following quarters
for investments in new business fields and further foreign expansion,
EBITDA is expected to remain at the record level of the previous year
(without positive special items of 2009).

The company´s financial statements for the first quarter of 2010 will
be published together with the 3-Month Report for 2010 on May 12,
2010.

end of announcement euro adhoc
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Further inquiry note:

Marcus Schaps

Head of PR

United Internet AG

Elgendorfer Straße 57

56410 Montabaur

Tel: 02602/96-1076

Fax: 02602/96-1013

E-Mail: mschaps@united-internet.de

Internet: www.united-internet.de

Branche: Telecommunications Services
ISIN: DE0005089031
WKN: 508903
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