Comarco Announces Agreement to Upgrade Call Boxes.

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1999--Comarco Inc. (Nasdaq:CMRO) Wednesday announced that its subsidiary, Comarco Wireless Technologies Inc. in Irvine, Calif., has been given a Notice to Proceed with improvements to the motorist-aid call box system in the San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding counties.

The contract is valued at $2.7 million and includes approximately 3,400 call boxes.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission Service Authority for Freeways and Expressways (MTC SAFE) let the contract to upgrade the area's call box system that was initially installed in 1990. The MTC SAFE includes Solano, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties. The project is planned to be completed by May 2000.

The call box system is completely wireless and provides direct communication between motorists and police, greatly improving the response time to accidents and other roadway incidents. The system is self-diagnostic providing highly reliable service over vast geographical areas. System lifecycles are measured in decades. Comarco has been manufacturing cellular call box systems for the past 14 years.

"We are pleased to receive this contract," stated Tom Franza, president of Comarco Wireless Technologies. "We look forward to working with the MTC SAFE to improve their call box system through this significant upgrade program."

For further information, contact Don Bailey at 714/796-1800 or the Shareholder Information Office at 714/796-1818. The company's Web site can be found at www.cmro.com.

Comarco Wireless Technologies, with headquarters in Irvine, is a leading supplier of wireless communications products and advanced wireless network evaluation equipment to the cellular and PCS industries worldwide.

Comarco provides wireless communications products, as well as engineering and information technology, management and staffing services, to the public and private sectors.

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.

Potential risks and uncertainties include factors such as the level of sales of the company's wireless communications and software products, timely and cost-effective product development, foreign marketing, the level of competition for the company's products and services and the ability to meet the technical requirements of the company's customers. Investors are also directed to consider a more detailed description of risks and uncertainties facing the company discussed in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.