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onPlatinum Acquisition

7 FEBRUARY 2022

COMMS GROUP LIMITED (ASX: CCG)

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Key Highlights

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Acquires a leading provider of

ICT1 services with a high-

quality customer base

Strengthens Comms Group's position in the corporate mid-market2

Extends Comms Group's

Adds ~$16m in total group

product offering, broadening

revenue, a ~45% increase on

product set into the IT services

current business revenue

market

Expands the Company's

Expect base EBITDA contribution

domestic footprint into QLD

of $2m3 (incl. synergies) and

expected to grow overtime

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  1. ICT refers to Information Technology (IT) services as well as Communications Services.
  2. For Comms Group, Corporate Mid-Market refers to larger organisations with typically 500+ employees and monthly spend (MRR) of typically > $5,000.

3 Annualised EBITDA contribution.

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Strategic Rationale

Consistent with the Company's strategy of pursuing near termaccretive acquisition opportunities

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Expansion of domestic

Transformational

footprint

acquisition

• Provides access to

• Adds ~$16m in total

customers in QLD and

group revenue,

NSW via onPlatinum's

representing a ~45%

services to SME and

increase on current

corporate mid-market

group revenue

• New base in QLD with

• Full year FY22,

significant resources

underlying EBITDA

and capabilities

guidance upgraded to

$5m to $5.5m which

includes 5 months

trading from

onPlatinum

Extension of service

offerings

  • Delivers a high-quality

    • corporate customer
      base
    • Broadens Comms Group's product set into the IT services market
  • Extension of offerings to existing client base via onPlatinum's managed IT services and cloud offerings

Consistent with M&A

strategy

  • Targets expanding
    offerings & client base
    • Post-acquisition,
      annualised revenue is expected to be over $50m and annualised underlying EBITDA of $7m+ including expected synergies from onPlatinum1

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Based on full year contributions from all businesses acquired over the past 12 months

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onPlatinum business overview

Trading via the onPlatinumand Tango Technology businesses

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Managed services

Domestically to the

SManagedE/Corporateservices,sectorprovision of hardware,(Up to 1,000professionalempl yees)and security services

~ 54% of revenue

Data services

Wide Area Network (WAN) maintenance and services, WAN provisioning and SD- WAN offerings

~ 11% of revenue

Cloud services

Desktop as a service, Office 365

services, Windows cloud services, and

Backup as a service

~ 25% of revenue

Voice services

A fully supported PBX hosted system combining traditional phone systems, VOIP and cloud computing

~ 10% of revenue

  • A strong reputation for quality, expertise and innovation
  • An award-winning business with a demonstrated history of sustainable growth
  • Infrastructure services that support over 55,000 requests per month - with only 4,500 that require human involvement
  • ~500 customers with average revenue per customer (ARPU) of circa $3,000 per month
  • Aims to have customers on longer term contracts of 3+ years
  • Servicing all capital cities and headquartered on the Gold Coast with over 60 employees

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A single point of contact for all clients

Specialisingin information communications and technology needs for clients across a broad range of industries

IT & Cloud

Security

Consultancy

Print

Communications

Managed IT, Cloud,

EndPoint EDR, Firewall,

Project delivery,

Integrated solutions,

Phone, Internet,

Infrastructure,

Domain Controllers,

Virtual CIO, Risk

National service

Digital presence

Network, Backups &

Dark Web

assessment, Advisory

coverage, Workflow

data recovery

Assessment for

board, Policy &

automation

domains, Risk Watch

Procedure

for O365

documentation

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