PRESS RELEASE
                                          
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Stebbins Chandor                          Fletcher Chamberlin
S.V.P., Chief Financial Officer           Investor Relations
Metro One Telecommunications, Inc.        Harris Massey Herinckx
(503) 643-9500                            (503) 973-9226

METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMENTS ON SECOND QUARTER OUTLOOK, CONTRACT
CONCLUSIONS

     Portland, Oregon - June 25, 1998 - Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. 
(NASDAQ: MTON), a leading provider of enhanced directory assistance (EDA) to 
the telecommunications industry, today announced that its contract with 
BellSouth Cellular and portions of its contract with Ameritech Cellular are 
not expected to be renewed when they conclude this year.  The company also 
announced that revenues in its second quarter ending June 30, 1998 are 
expected to be greater than current investor expectations. 

     Second quarter revenues are currently expected to be in the range of 
$10.7 to $10.9 million.  That is nearly double 1997 second quarter revenues 
of $5.5 million and continues the company's recent record of rapid 
year-over-year growth.

     Metro One has been providing a limited version of its service to 
portions of the BellSouth Cellular subscriber base in south Florida under a 
contract that concludes at the end of June 1998.  The company has been 
informed that directory assistance for these customers will be handled by 
internal BellSouth capacity when the contract with Metro One concludes. The 
BellSouth contract provided less than 3% of revenues in the first quarter of 
1998.

     The portion of the company's Ameritech Cellular EDA contract pertaining 
to the Chicago market, although currently on extension to July 1998, is not 
expected to be replaced by a long-term contract.  It is expected that 
Ameritech will handle directory assistance calls for both the Chicago and 
Detroit markets with its own internal personnel.  Service for the Detroit 
portion of the contract is contractually scheduled to conclude in




November 1998.

     "The conclusion of the BellSouth business will have a minimal impact on 
our revenue growth, which has been approximately 100% on a year-over-year 
basis for the last two quarters," commented Timothy A. Timmins, president and 
CEO of Metro One.  "We continue to see substantial growth from our other 
customers, who do not require their subscribers to go through a 'gateway' to 
reach our operators, and we have ongoing business discussions about new 
contracts with other communications companies.  

     "The Chicago Ameritech business, which represented approximately 10% of 
our revenues in the first quarter of 1998," continued Timmins, "is obviously 
meaningful and we would have liked to retain it.  We do feel that the growth 
we are currently experiencing within our existing customer base plus growth 
we should be able to generate from new business should more than make up for 
the completion of this particular portion of the Ameritech Cellular business 
and that of BellSouth."

     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 
quarter of 1998 was $9.0 million, or 102 percent above first quarter 1997 
levels.

     This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made 
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation 
Reform Act of 1995.  The forward-looking statements involve risks and 
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the 
forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, increased 
competition, expiration of EDA contracts, the rapidly changing 
telecommunications market, changes in pricing policies by the company or its 
competitors, lengthy sales cycles, lack of market acceptance or delays in the 
introduction of new versions of the company's products or features, the 
timing of the initiation of wireless services in new market areas by 
telecommunications customers, the timing and expense of the company's 
expansion of its nationwide call center network and other factors detailed in 
the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including its 
reports on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 1997 and on Form10-QSB




for the quarter ended March 31, 1998.  The forward-looking statements should 
be considered in light of these risks and uncertainties.

                                          
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