MicroTel International Subsidiary, CXR Anderson Jacobson, Announces Significant Penetration of the French-Speaking North African Market for Its Network Access Products.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2003

Follow-on Orders to Initial Contracts are Expected to Exceed

$1 Million in the First Half of 2004

MicroTel International Inc. (OTCBB:MCTL), an international manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic components and subsystems and communication equipment, today announced that its French subsidiary, CXR Anderson Jacobson ("CXR-AJ") has received a second round order totaling $180,000 for its network access product for use in the local telephone loop for Algerian Telecom. This order brings the second half 2003 total of such orders to in excess of $500,000 from this and other North African countries. Based upon initial contracts in this and other North African countries, CXR-AJ expects follow-on business in the first half of 2004 to exceed $1 million.

Eric Piaget, Director of Sales and Marketing for CXR-AJ, stated, "We foresee rapid growth for our products in the North African markets not only for telecom customers such as Algerian and Moroccan telecos, but also for additional countries and markets including military and corporate customers."

Graham Jefferies, Executive Vice President of MicroTel, commented, "We have spent all of 2003 cultivating the very large North African French-speaking market together with our newly established, in country business partners in the six major French-speaking countries and with active participation in trade and other government agency shows. The effort to sell into these markets is a long and arduous task. However, we have a major advantage over most of our competitors because CXR-AJ's sales and engineering support staff speak French as their native language. Also, travel to these countries is more convenient for CXR-AJ's staff, which is located in France, than it is for our U.S. or other European ...