ETMA Eurotelecom 'a'

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EuroTelecom Communications Inc
20 November 2000


                       EuroTelecom Communications, Inc.

   EUROTELECOM SIGN EXCLUSIVE DEAL WITH MAJOR CHINESE TELECOM TRANSMISSION
                            EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER

EuroTelecom Communications, Inc. ("EuroTelecom" trading on AIM as ETMA; U.S.
trading symbol EUTC) whose 'application linking' technology is used to create
the communications backbone for intelligent buildings, has signed a one year
exclusive distribution agreement with Chinese telecommunications equipment
manufacturer, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei").

EuroTelecom will become the sole U.K. distributor for Huawei's range of SDH
fibre optic transmission products.  EuroTelecom expects that prospective
customers will be developers and tenants whose buildings and businesses rely
upon resilient SDH based communication networks and services.  SDM fibre optic
transmission products have a broad application to the retail, leisure,
education and commercial office sectors in addition to executive residential
developments that demand high-speed future proof systems.

Founded in 1988, Huawei is a high technology enterprise dedicated to the
research, development and marketing of telecoms equipment and is one of the
largest network solutions providers in Asia. Huawei product areas include
switching, SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) / DWDM (dense wavelength
division multiplexing) transmission, optical access networks, mobile and
wireless communications, ATM, data communications and video conferencing.
Huawei recorded revenues of U.S.$1.5 billion in 1999.

Huawei is a market leader within China, controlling some 25% of China's
optical transmission systems, and also operates in Africa, the Middle East,
Asia, Russia and the U.S. Huawei is seeking to introduce its operations into
Europe through the agreement with EuroTelecom.

Phil Derry, Chief Executive of EuroTelecom, commented:

"We have been looking to add to our SDH product portfolio.  The Huawei
relationship provides EuroTelecom with a complementary range of SDH technology
allowing wide area broadband solutions with capacity from STM4 up to STM64.
Huawei's comprehensive product range now enables EuroTelecom to satisfy our
customers' most demanding technology and communication requirements through
innovative optical fibre based integrated solutions.

The Huawei relationship is particularly important when considered alongside
our proposed acquisition, announced on 14 November, 2000, of Intelect Network
Technologies, (a wholly owned subsidiary of Intelect Communications, Inc
(NASDAQ: ICOM)) whose technology serves the intelligent building market using
STM 1 multi protocol application platforms as installed by EuroTelecom at 'The
Printworks' retail and leisure development in Manchester and Q.ton Forum a
video conferencing and leisure complex in Cambridge."

This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such statements are
based on the current expectations and beliefs of the management of EuroTelecom
and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those described in the
forward-looking statements.

For further information:

EuroTelecom
Phil Derry, Chief Executive                            01709 874600

Buchanan Communications
Steve Liebmann or Jeremy Garcia                        020 7466 5000

Notes

1.         Technical Terms

"Application linking" is the term used by EuroTelecom to describe a means of
providing a communication path between a series of devices in a network that
links end user applications. An intelligent building is a building that uses
self-monitoring and self- supporting technology to control internal building
services such as lighting, heating, air conditioning, alarms and
communications. SDH stands for synchronous digital hierarchy, STM for
synchronous transfer mode, and DWDM for dense wavelength division
multiplexing, which are recognised transmission standards or methods.



2.         Intelect Acquisition

EuroTelecom expects that the due diligence to reach final agreement, currently
taking place, will be concluded by 15th December 2000. Following this the
process to conclude the acquisition is expected to take up to a maximum of
three months.

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