EXHIBIT 20

                         [LOGO OF OPTEL APPEARS HERE]

           OPTEL, INC CONCLUDES $150 MILLION SENIOR CREDIT FACILITY

DALLAS, February 2, 1998 - OpTel, Inc. ("OpTel") today announced that it had 
recently concluded a $150 million senior secured credit facility (the "Senior 
Facility") with a syndicate of financial institutions. The Senior Facility was 
arranged by Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P. in conjunction with General 
Electric Capital Corporation (as documentation agent) and CIBC Oppenheimer (as 
administrative agent). The Senior Facility consists of a $125 million term loan 
and a $25 million revolving credit commitment and bears interest at LIBOR plus 
3.5%.

Louis Brunel, President and Chief Executive Officer, said:

"I am very pleased to report that we have successfully executed a senior credit 
facility that will provide us with adequate capital to fund our planned 
expansion for around the next two years. The conclusion of the facility marks 
the culmination of a very successful year of fund-raising for OpTel in which we 
successfully secured $375 million of new capital. Over the last year we have 
consolidated our position as the leading private cable operator in the country 
and I would like to thank the financial community for their tremendous support 
in helping us to achieve this. We now have the flexibility we need to continue 
to expand."

OpTel is the largest provider of private cable television services to residents
of MDU developments in the United States and is expanding the telecommunications
services it offers to MDU residents. The Company provides cable television
services and (in certain markets) telecommunications services, to MDU residents
principally under long term contracts with owners of MDUs in eleven major cities
(Houston, Dallas - Fort Worth, San Diego, Phoenix, Chicago, Denver, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami - Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa and Austin). OpTel is
majority owned by Le Groupe Videotron Ltee ("GVL"), owners of the second
largest cable television operator in Canada.

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