Advanced Communications Technologies, Inc. - New Broadband Network Acquisition.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000

The Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Communications Technologies Inc. (OTC BB - "ADVC") Roger May announced today that Melbourne, Australia based Advanced Communications Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd ("ACT AUS"), that is twenty percent (20%) owned by ACT USA (ADVC), has completed the acquisition of the entire wireless communications infrastructure of NCSS Australia Pty Ltd.

NCSS owns and operates a broadband wireless network with points of presence and tower sites in most key transmitting locations in the Melbourne metropolitan area and surrounding regional Victoria.

Combined with the Victoria Communications network the new acquisition provides ACT AUS with a substantial telecommunications wireless network structure that would have taken ACT AUS one to two years and many millions of dollars to establish. The new combined broadband wireless network provides an excellent opportunity to generate immediate revenues from sales in the densely populated Melbourne and southeastern Victorian regional area.

May said "that the NCSS infrastructure provides extensive coverage of a very large market area and secures valuable and strategically located points of presence (POP's) from Melbourne and as far as Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula and Geelong. Clients will be offered a broad range of products including wireless access to LAN's, WAN's, virtual private networks VPN) and VoIP telephony together with broadband internet data access."

"ACT AUS will primarily position the network for channel sales through companies like MCI ,Primus, and AAPT, and others, plus additional revenues which will be generated through direct sales over our fixed wireless access network, utilizing point-to-point (P2P) and point-to-multi-point (P2mP) wireless technologies. The new ACT AUS wireless network infrastructure provides an especially attractive and viable alternative for other telcos and ISP's.

The new wireless network infrastructure is especially suitable for effectively demonstrating the company's multiple protocol operating system "SpectruCell".

SpectruCell - Multiple Protocol Operating System

Advanced Communications Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd is in the completion stages of the development of a "state of the art" multiple protocol operating system ( SpectruCell") for mobile wireless network communications products, that is well placed to become the primary communications network operating system for all wireless communications technologies in the 21st Century."

SpectruCell is an innovative and exciting new concept in mobile communications networks that has been developed in Australia over the last three years in conjunction with RMIT University in Melbourne. A SpectruCell base station is a software-defined radio (SDR) switching device capable of processing multiple protocols (GSM, CDMA, 3G, etc,) all over the same cellular telephone network. The major difference between SpectruCell and existing products is in the flexibility offered to network providers by way of its open architecture and software upgradeable design.

SpectruCell will support the next generation of evolving mobile communications base stations or cells. Unlike existing networks, it has been designed with an entirely new wireless network architecture that is capable of processing and transmitting all mobile communications protocols (such as AMPS, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, W-CDMA, UMTS, Mobile IP, Voice IP, 3G protocols), all within the same telecommunications network structure.

Simon Cleary, Vice President Research and Development for Advanced Communications Technologies, recently confirmed that the prototype development is on schedule for completion in late August early September. The ACT development team has already successfully demonstrated GSM functionality running on real-time on operational SpectruCell hardware.

Other developments initiated by the development team within ACT AUS are:

Spectrally Efficient Microwave Units

Using intelligent modulation techniques and link monitoring software to achieve a spectrally efficient high-speed microwave link capable of achieving 4.5 - 7.5 times the data/voice carrying capacity within the same bandwidth as existing microwave links.

Smart Antennas for Cellular Communication Systems

The ability to use smart antennas in cellular networks improves delivery both to and from the mobile unit. This project is not only looking at the use of smart antenna DSP technology but also on how to effectively manage and deploy smart antennas within mobile network infrastructure.

Future developments will be to utilize high-speed data rate modulation techniques within the existing GSM and CDMA voice & data channels.

Advanced Communications Technologies is an Associate Member of the Telecommunications Industry Association (http://www.tiaonline.org) and a member of the International SDR forum (http://www.sdrforum.org).

Funding

May also confirmed, "that approval of a very substantial grant for research and development from the Australian Government had been approved recently, and that full details would be made available in the next 14 - 21 days, once all documentation had been completed"

Advanced Communications Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB "ADVC") owns twenty percent (20%) of ACT AUS, and a proportionate equity in all of the ACT AUS subsidiary companies.

The foregoing contains forward-looking information within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. The actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements. The company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results (expressed or implied) will not be realized.