QSC AG

Earnings Release • May 13, 2013

QSC AG

Company Presentation

Results Q1 2013

Cologne, May 13, 2013

AGENDA

• 1. Highlights Q1 2013
• 1. Financial Results Q1 2013
• 1. Outlook 2013
• 1. Questions & Answers

GOOD START TO 2013

• Favorable revenue mix
• Increase in ICT revenues of 15% to € 81.1 million
• Decrease in TC revenues of 29% to € 31.9 million
• QSC managed to compensate for negative regulatory impact to a certain extent
• EBITDA margin increases by 2 percentage points to 17%
• Successful launch of QSC-tengo the Cloud workplace

FAST GROWTH IN ICT BUSINESS

Growth drivers

• Huge 2012 order backlog beginning to generate revenues
• One-off hardware revenues to start work on large orders
• Temporarily higher demand for IP-based voice products

Growth restraints

• Unfavorable voice regulation
• Fierce price competition in legacy TC business

TC BUSINESS IMPACTED BY TIGHTENED REGULATION

• Effective December 1, 2012, the German regulator lowered interconnection fees. Three major changes:
• Lower mobile fees: minus 45% 47%
• Lower fixed-line fees: minus 20% 40%
• A new structure of fixed-line termination fees for altnets
• Effects on QSC:
• € 7-8 million less revenues per quarter in 2013 (~55% Resellers / ~45% Indirect Sales)
• Some € 1 million less profit per quarter in 2013

QSC partly managed to compensate for these effects in Q1 2013

ICT BUSINESS BENEFITS FROM ONGOING HIGH ORDER ENTRY

• In Q1 2013, QSC managed to win new orders with a volume of € 23.6 million

(e.g. SportScheck, Nowega)

• Day-to-day orders at a higher level than the 2012 average
• TCV in 2012 positively impacted by three larger outsourcing orders

ICT BUSINESS IS BOOSTED BY INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS

• After 4 launches in 2012, QSC will continue to bring innovative ICT products to market in 2013
• First 2013 launch: presentation of QSC-tengo the Cloud workplace – at CeBIT 2013
• In the pipeline:
• Smart energy box (pilots planned for 2013)
• Virtual utility platform (first pilots in 2013)
• Numerous ICT products to simplify Cloud / data center use

QSC-TENGO: THE CLOUD WORKPLACE

QSC-TENGO HELPED QSC TO BECOME A "2013 CLOUD LEADER" IN TWO CATEGORIES

• In April 2013, German market researcher Experton honoured QSC as a Cloud Leader in two categories

• IaaS managed private Cloud
• Cloud Services for the "Mittelstand" (SMEs)
• The jury: "QSC proves that Cloud Services and Mittelstand go together"
• QSC-tengo stands for this approach because of
• Its convenience
• Its safety (all data are hosted in QSC's German data centers)

AGENDA

• 1. Highlights Q1 2013
• 1. Financial Results Q1 2013
• 1. Outlook 2013
• 1. Questions & Answers

HIGHER PROFITS DESPITE LOWER REVENUES

In € million	Q1 2012	Q1 2013
• Revenues	116.0	113.0	-2.6%
• Cost of Revenues (1)	78.1	75.4	-3.5%
• Gross profit	+37.9	+37.6	-0.8%
• (1) Other operating expenses	20.4	18.7	-8.3%
• EBITDA profit	+17.5	+18.9	+8.0%
• Depreciation	13.5	12.6	-6.7%
• EBIT profit	+4.0	+6.3	+57.5%
• Financial results	-0.9	-1.1	-22.2%
• Income taxes	-0.8	-0.1	nm
• Net profit	+2.3	+5.1	+121.7%

(1) Excluding depreciation and non-cash share-based remuneration

POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER MARGIN ICT BUSINESS HELPS TO BOOST PROFITABILITY

• Only 28% of QSC's revenues still stem from low-margin TC business (Q1 2012: 39%)
• In Q1 2013, QSC earned significantly higher EBITDA margins in its ICT segments
• Direct Sales: 20%
• Indirect Sales: 24%
• Resellers: 4%

ANOTHER PROFIT DRIVER: DECLINING OTHER OPERATING COSTS

HIGHER-MARGIN REVENUES AND LOWER COSTS LEAD TO HIGHER PROFITABILITY

IN Q1 2013, QSC INVESTED IN NEW CUSTOMERS AND IN NEW PRODUCTS

DESPITE HIGHER CAPEX, QSC EARNED A SUSTAINABLE FREE CASH FLOW

(in $\epsilon$ million)	Dec. 31, 2012	March 31, 2013	FCF Q1/2013
Cash and short-term deposits	34.8	41.0	$+6.2$
Available-for-sale financial assets	0.4	0.4
Liquidity	35.2	41.4	$+6.2$
Liabilities under financing arrangements	$-11.3$	$-10.5$	$+0.8$
Liabilties due to banks	$-79.2$	$-81.1$	$-1.9$
Interest-bearing liabilities	$-90.5$	$-91.6$	$-1.1$
Net debt	$-55.3$	$-50.2$	$+5.1$
Free cash flow	$+5.1$

AGENDA

• 1. Highlights Q1 2013
• 1. Financial Results Q1 2013
• 1. Outlook 2013
• 1. Questions & Answers

QSC CONFIRMS GUIDANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013

QSC anticipates:

• Revenues of at least € 450 million
• An EBITDA margin of at least 17%
• Free cash flow of at least € 24 million

TWO-TRACK DEVELOPMENT IN 2013

Direct Sales – the growth driver

• Q1 revenues were exceptionally high because of one-off hardware revenues
• High level of new orders remains a good basis for growth in 2013 and beyond
• Growth in 2013 much faster than the ICT market

Indirect Sales – growing with new products

• Indirect Sales benefited from higher demand for IP-based voice products in Q1 2013 – demand will "normalize" over the coming quarters
• New ICT products + new IT sales partners will lead to higher ICT revenues
• Partners also sell conventional TC products

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• Despite regulatory impact Indirect Sales will remain stable in 2013

Resellers – shrinking importance of TC business

• Ongoing revenue decline because of market conditions and regulation

AGENDA

• 1. Highlights Q1 2013
• 1. Financial Results Q1 2013
• 1. Outlook 2013
• 1. Questions & Answers

SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE AFTER THE TWO FOUNDERS ACQUIRING ADDITIONAL SHARES

FINANCIAL CALENDAR

May 29, 2013 Annual Shareholders Meeting August 12, 2013 Publication of Quarterly Report II/2013 November 11, 2013 Publication of Quarterly Report III/2013

CONTACT

QSC AG Arne Thull Head of Investor Relations Mathias-Brüggen-Strasse 55 50829 Cologne

Phone +49-221-6698-724 Fax +49-221-6698-009 E-mail invest@qsc.de Web www.qsc.de

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SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

This presentation includes forward-looking statements as such term is defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and projections of future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual results to vary materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, changes in the competitive environment, changes in the rate of development and expansion of the technical capabilities of DSL technology, changes in prices of DSL technology and market share of our competitors, changes in the rate of development and expansion of alternative broadband technologies and changes in prices of such alternative broadband technologies, changes in government regulation, legal precedents or court decisions relating, among other things, to line sharing, rent for colocation and unbundled local loops, the pricing and timely availability of leased lines, and other matters that might have an effect on our business, the timely development of value-added services, our ability to maintain and expand current marketing and distribution agreements and enter into new marketing and distribution agreements, our ability to receive additional financing if management planning targets are not met, the timely and complete payment of outstanding receivables from our distribution partners and resellers of QSC services and products, as well as the availability of sufficiently qualified employees.

A complete list of the risks, uncertainties and other factors facing us can be found in our public reports and filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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