Exhibit 99.02


                                                     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

From:    Metro-Tel Corp.
         290 N.E. 68th Street
         Miami, FL 33138

         M. Steiner        (305) 754-4551
         V.J. Indelicato   (813) 814-0722


Miami, FL -- January 6, 1999 - Metro Tel Corp. (Nasdaq:  MTRO) announced that it
has applied to list its Common Stock on the Chicago Stock Exchange.  The Company
further  reported that  beginning  January 7, 1999,  its Common Stock will begin
being quoted on Nasdaq's OTC Electronic Bulletin Board and that its Common Stock
will no longer be quoted on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market.

The Company is a leading  distributor  of  industrial  dry  cleaning and laundry
equipment in the  southeastern  United States,  the Caribbean and South America,
and is also a manufacturer of telephone test equipment and peripheral  telephone
products.