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NHC Announces $2.4 Million in Orders from its First Major US ILEC - Successful First Office Applications Create Largest Automated Mainframes in North America NHC Communications Inc. today announced that it has received $2.4 million in orders from its first major US incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). The contract with this ILEC customer to purchase NHC's ControlPoint(TM) family of products was announced during calendar 2001. These orders include the sale of an undisclosed number of ControlPoint(TM) solutions following the successful completion of two first office application (FOAs) field trials at two separate central offices. In conjunction with these successful installations, the ILEC customer has completed an order to purchase from NHC its larger models of the ControlPoint(TM) solution for use in an unmanned central office for which the installation is currently in progress. Based on the credit terms provided, approximately $800,000 should be paid later this week and the remaining balance of approximately $1.6 million is expected to be paid during NHC's second quarter of fiscal 2003 ending January 2003. These central office installations have created the largest working automated main distribution frames in North America. This ILEC is using multiple ControlPoint(TM) 5400s linked together to control large unmanned COs with over 6,000 voice and data lines. With two COs already using multiple ControlPoint(TM) 5400s and one CO in the installation process at this ILEC, NHC has delivered North America's largest automated main distribution frame (MDF) into three locations. "We have achieved a significant milestone by successfully linking multiple ControlPoint(TM) systems to manage larger central offices," said NHC President and CEO Sylvain Abitbol. "This is a major step forward to being able to service our customers' needs from very small to large unmanned central offices. More importantly, NHC has demonstrated that our software and hardware technology can be implemented on a large-scale, and only adds to our leadership position in the growing automated mainframe sector," added Abitbol. These solutions clearly demonstrate that automating the manual processes on the MDF provide ILECs with a significant ROI by providing "flow-through" provisioning and test access, thereby significantly reducing operating costs. "With these conclusive FOAs and first payment, we have every confidence that this US ILEC customer will continue their adoption process of our ControlPoint(TM) solutions" said NHC President and CEO Sylvain Abitbol. NHC COMMUNICATIONS NHC (https://www.nhc.com/) is a leading provider of carrier class test access and deployment solutions for the copper-based telecommunications and Internet access markets and of innovative remotely controlled physical layer cross- connect solutions for established and next-generation voice/data networks. With a unique range of technologies, NHC is at the heart of today's corporate enterprise service market and the telecommunications industry. NHC maintains offices in Montreal, Quebec; Paris, France; and Manassas, Virginia. NHC's ControlPoint(TM) solution is an integrated Element Management System (EMS) controlling an automated, true any-to-any copper cross-connect switch capable of performing the four fundamental functions at the heart of all operations performed by incumbent local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, and multiple-tenant units and multiple-dwelling units: loop qualification, deployment and provisioning, fallback switching and service migration of DSL, ISDN, E1/T1 and POTS. "ControlPoint(TM)" is a trademark of NHC Communications Inc. NHC may be contacted through its web site: www.nhc.com Statements included here, which are not historical in nature, are forward- looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including without limitation, statements as to management's beliefs, strategies, plans, expectations or opinions in connection with the Company's performance, which are based on a number of assumptions concerning future conditions that may ultimately prove to be inaccurate and may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by NHC with the pertinent Canadian security exchange commissions, specifically the most recent Quarterly Reports, Annual Information Form, Annual Report and Material Change Reports, each as it may be amended from time to time, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including rapid technological change along with the need to continually develop new products; the Company's dependence on a dominant product line; competition; the Company's dependence on key employees; difficulties in managing the Company's growth; the Company's dependence upon certain customers and certain suppliers; the Company's dependence upon proprietary rights; risks of third party claims of infringement; and government regulation. CONTACT: Sylvain Abitbol, President and CEO, NHC Communications Inc., 1-800-861-1965, Fax: [phone], [e-mail] ; Marvin Garellek, Marketing Director, NHC Communications Inc., 1-800-861-1965, Fax: [phone], [e-mail]