MicroTel --MCTL-- Announces Orbit II Partners, L.P. and Its Affiliate Have Increased Their Beneficial Ownership Interest in MicroTel Common Stock From 5.4% to 14%.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000

MicroTel International Inc. (OTCBB: MCTL) (&uot;MicroTel&uot;) today announced Orbit II Partners, L.P. (&uot;Orbit&uot;) and OTAF, LLC, an affiliate of Orbit has increased their beneficial ownership of MicroTel's common stock to an aggregate of 14% as of December 23, 1999. On December 23, 1999, Orbit purchased 34.5 shares of Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase 172,500 shares of common stock from existing MircoTel security holders. Orbit, like the Samuel J. Oliva Group, which simultaneously purchased 5 shares of the preferred stock and certain warrants, has agreed to a fixed conversion price on the shares of preferred stock. As of December 23, 1999, Orbit and its affiliate have beneficial ownership of 2,821,485 shares of MicroTel's common stock, including 1,743,285 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred stock and 322,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

Commenting on Orbit's position Carmine T. Oliva, Chairman and CEO stated, &uot;Orbit is a proprietary options market maker trading firm with forty professionals conducting business on the floor of The American Stock Exchange (NY), The Chicago Board Options Exchange, The Pacific Exchange (San Francisco) and The Philadelphia Stock Exchange. We are please that Orbit II has demonstrated such faith in MicroTel's future by increasing its position significantly.&uot;

MicroTel International, Inc. is a holding company for its three wholly owned subsidiaries -- CXR Telcom Corporation in Fremont, CA, CXR, S.A. in Paris, France and Xcel Information Technologies Corporation (XIT) in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. CXR Telcom Corporation and CXR, S.A. design, manufacture and market electronic telecommunication test instruments, wireless and wireline voice, data and video transmission and networking equipment. XIT Corporation designs, manufactures and markets information technology products, including input and display components, subsystem assemblies and power supplies. The Company operates out of facilities in the U.S., France, England and Japan.

The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not historical are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, economic and competitive conditions in the markets served by the Company affecting the demand for the Company's products, product pricing, market acceptance, access to distribution channels and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These risks could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or described herein.