Comtech Telecommunications Announces $1.1 Million Order from Arrowhead for Bandwidth Efficient Modems.

Business & Technology Editors

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2001

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. today announced that its Comtech EF Data subsidiary received an order from Arrowhead Space and Telecommunications Company for $1.1 million of Comtech Model BEM-7650 Modems.

The Comtech Model BEM-7650 Bandwidth Efficient Modem provides the user with a multi-modem chassis design that allows up to ten modulators and ten demodulators to be installed in a single chassis. Management control is provided by a robust, Windows based Monitor and Control System. The BEM-7650 meets MIL-STD-188-165 standards and meets Defense Satellite Communications Systems (DSCS) specifications.

Arrowhead Space and Telecommunications Co. (www.arrowheadsat.com) is a native - American, woman-owned small business established in 1991. Arrowhead is known for its work in telecommunication and information technology with the United States Government. Working with the Air Force 50th Contracting Wing at Shriever AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arrowhead was able to provide its client with a 7-day turn around for order processing and delivery.

Comtech EF Data Corp. (www.comtechefdata.com) designs, manufacturers and markets a broad spectrum of Frequency Up and Down Converters, Solid State Power Amplifiers, Satellite Modems and C- and Ku-Band Transceivers, Internet Enabled Modems, MultiCast and UniCast Networks and the MIDAS Bandwidth on Demand System. All products meet or exceed the standards published by Intelsat, Eutelsat, Insat, AsiaSat and other worldwide and regional satellite networks.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.(www.comtechtel.com) is an innovative player in the domestic and global high-technology markets. Through its operating units, Comtech pursues opportunities in three interrelated market segments: telecommunications transmission, RF microwave amplifiers, and mobile data communications services. In each of these segments, growth is driven by increasing demand for telecommunications infrastructure and network and messaging services. The company's specialties include the design and manufacture of advanced products and networks used for transmission of voice, data and video using satellite, over-the-horizon microwave, terrestrial line of sight and other wireless communications systems. More than 275 distinct Comtech products are in service in more than 100 countries.

Certain information contained herein contains forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, information relating to the future performance and financial condition of the Company, the plans and objectives of the Company's management and the Company's assumptions regarding such performance and plans that are forward-looking in nature and involve certain significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from such forward-looking information. Included among the factors which might cause such results to differ are: among others, the Company's mobile data communications business being in a developmental stage; our inability to keep pace with rapid technological changes; the highly competitive nature of our markets; our dependence on international sales; and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Form 10-K and other cautionary statements contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.