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To: ChrisJP who wrote (441)	9/10/1998 12:13:00 AM
From: MIKE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 608

9/9/98 MTON $6.125 +0.75(+13.95%) Nice move up today on better than average volume(181,500) Wish all my stocks performed as well the day after I bought them. :) News this P.M.: Metro One Telecommunications' CEO Appears on 'World Business Review' PR Newswire - September 09, 1998 16:04 PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Timothy A. Timmins, president and chief executive officer of Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTON), will appear as a panelist next Sunday on the international television program, "World Business Review." The program is hosted by Caspar Weinberger, publisher of Forbes magazine, and will air on the CNBC cable channel at 3:00 p.m. EDT on September 13, 1998. It will also be shown on selected United Airlines flights during November. On the program, Timmins discusses the growth of the wireless communications market and the exciting opportunities available to providers of services to the industry. He appears on a panel with Matt Wisk, vice president, customer marketing of Nokia. Also on the program on a related panel are Doug Smith, chief operating officer of Nortel Wireless and David Allen, director of wireless systems for Samsung Telecom America. Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. is an independent developer and provider of Enhanced Directory Assistance services for the telecommunications industry. The company operates call centers located throughout the U.S. Revenue for the full year 1997 was $26.1 million. Revenue for the first half of 1998 was $20.0 million, or 101 percent above first half 1997 levels. The company handled approximately 42 million requests for directory assistance on behalf of its carrier customers in 1997 and approximately 32 million requests in the first half of 1998. SOURCE Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. /CONTACT: Stebbins Chandor, S.V.P., Chief Financial Officer of Metro One Telecommunications, Inc., 503-643-9500; or Fletcher Chamberlin, Investor Relations of Harris Massey Herinckx, 503-973-9226, for Metro One Telecommunications, Inc./