AML Communications Announces ISO 9001 Certification; Successful in First Audit Attempt With Near-Perfect Results.

CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 1999--

AML Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:AMLJ) announced today that it has been registered to ISO 9001 by ITS Intertek Services, America's first accredited ISO 9000 registrar.

AML's ISO 9001 certification affirms that the company's manufacturing and service operations adhere to the internationally recognized quality standard. In accomplishing this feat, AML joins only 10 percent of the U.S. manufacturing operations that have registered their quality systems to ISO 9001.

Kirk A. Waldron, president and chief executive officer, said: "This significant milestone reaffirms our commitment to deliver quality, design-specific solutions to our customers. ISO 9001 certification represents third-party confirmation that AML is a world- class quality organization which, we believe, better positions us for future opportunities in the wireless market.

Waldron added, "We are very proud to achieve our ISO certification on our first attempt with near-perfect results in the audit. This accomplishment represents the culmination of a tremendous amount of effort from all of our employees."

AML Communications is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of amplifiers and related products for the global wireless communications industry. The company currently focuses on the following sectors of the wireless market: cellular telephony, wireless local loop, personal communications services, two-way paging, low earth orbit satellite networks and custom wireless applications.

The information contained in this news release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, such as the statements of the company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. The company's actual results could differ materially from those indicated by such statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, the inability of the company to sustain ISO 9001 certification; the impact of ISO on the opportunity for future orders from domestic and international customers; economic conditions; reductions or cancellations in orders from new or existing customers; limited number of potential customers; variability in gross margins on new products; success in the design of new products (including, specifically without limitation, WLL products) or the redesign of existing products; timing and success of WLL deployment, and the ability to manufacture in quantity such new or redesigned products; failure to acquire new customers; new deterioration of business and economic conditions in the company's customers' marketplaces; intensely competitive industry conditions with increasing price competition; business conditions; and, growth in the wireless communications market, as well as those factors discussed in the company's Form 10-KSB and Form 10-QSB on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.