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Comtech Awarded $1.2 Million Multi-Year Contract Extension to Provide Enhanced 9-1-1 Technologies to U.S. Wireless Carrier
[October 09, 2018]

Comtech Awarded $1.2 Million Multi-Year Contract Extension to Provide Enhanced 9-1-1 Technologies to U.S. Wireless Carrier


October 9, 2018-- Comtech Telecommunications (News - Alert) Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL) announced today, that during its first quarter of fiscal 2019, its Safety & Security Technologies group, which is part of Comtech's Commercial Solutions segment, was awarded a multi-year contract extension totaling $1.2 million to provide FCC (News - Alert) mandated enhanced 911 ("E911") services to New-Cell, Inc. dba Cellcom. As part of this contract extension, Comtech will also provide emergency call routing services for Cellcom's Voice Over Long Term Evolutions (VoLTE) and Voice over WiFi (News - Alert) (VoWiFi) networks.

For more than ten years, Comtech has continuously provided Cellcom with a number of public safety solutions, including E911 location and call routing for Cellcom's (News - Alert) CDMA network, as well as Text to 9-1-1 service.

"We are honored that this carrier has extended our relationship and selected us to perform this critical work for its end customers in Northeastern & Central Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula," said Fred Kornberg (News - Alert) President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. "This extension is a testament to the quality and high reliability of our market-leading solutions, and we are proud of our 20-year history of providing 99.999% E911 routing service availability to our wireless and VoIP carriers."



Comtech's highly reliable technologies enable the successful handling of over five million 9-1-1 calls and texts each month. For more information regarding Comtech's 9-1-1 products and services, visit www.comtech911.com.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. designs, develops, produces, and markets innovative products, systems and services for advanced communications solutions. The Company sells products to a diverse customer base in the global commercial and government communications markets.


Certain information in this press release contains statements that are forward-looking in nature and involve certain significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from such forward-looking information. The Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings identify many such risks and uncertainties. Any forward-looking information in this press release is qualified in its entirety by the risks and uncertainties described in such Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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