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SureWest Connects First Homes in Kansas City Market to Fastest Communications Network in Area

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 12:00 CDT

ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent communications holding company SureWest Communications announced today that it has completed its most recent expansion of the company's renowned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, passing 1,500 homes in the Kansas City communities of Merriam and Olathe with its superior fiber-optic technology. The company is aggressively implementing a new sales and marketing campaign to these areas which is showing early signs of significant customer demand for the highest performing network and communications services available anywhere in the greater Kansas City region.

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SureWest plans to reach another 1,500 fiber homes in Merriam and Olathe by November 2008 and 8,000 total by the end of the year. The company is also expanding its FTTH network into the community of Prairie Village by the end of 2008 or early 2009.

"This is an exciting time for the company and customers in our Kansas City market," said Ken Johnson, SureWest's vice president and general manager of operations in Kansas. "Residents from these three neighboring communities where we were previously unable to serve have been asking us for years when we were coming to their neighborhoods. Now, not only are we beginning to offer service to their neighborhoods, we are delivering the most advanced and superior network in the country.

"We just had a successful commencement to our launch when one of our sales reps knocked on seven doors and sold six new households our SureWest fiber services. And during one of our first installations, four of the surrounding neighbors saw our SureWest service vehicle and chased down our technician to ask if they could be installed as well."

SureWest's FTTH platform delivers 100 megabits per second (Mbps) of bi-directional bandwidth to each customer's home, which is one of the fastest and most reliable broadband networks of any system in the country. SureWest provides the only residential service in the United States that delivers 50 Mbps of Internet speed both uploading and downloading, and in 2007 added its first 50 Mbps customer, making him the man with the fastest Internet speed in the country at the time (http://cbs13.com/local/Surewest.Internet.High.2.476640.html).

SureWest is marketing its 5-Star Service promotion to potential FTTH subscribers, with pricing beginning at $79.95 for a triple-play of unlimited telephone calling, high-speed Internet and cable TV (http://everestkc.com/about/rates.shtml).

About SureWest

SureWest Communications (http://www.surewest.com/) is one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers and is the bandwidth leader in the markets it serves. Headquartered in Northern California for more than 90 years, the company expanded into the Kansas City region in February 2008 with the acquisition of Everest Broadband, Inc. and offers bundled residential and commercial services that include IP-based digital and high-definition television, high-speed Internet, Voice over IP, and local and long distance telephone. Its fiber-to-the-premise IP-based network in the Sacramento region features the fastest symmetrical Internet speeds in the nation at up to 50 Mbps. In its Kansas City market (http://www.surewestkc.com/), 75 percent of the company's customers subscribe to at least three services.

Contact: Ron Rogers Corporate Communications 916-746-3123 r.rogers@surewest.com

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SureWest Communications

CONTACT: Ron Rogers, Corporate Communications of SureWestCommunications, +1-916-746-3123, r.rogers@surewest.com

Web site: http://www.surewest.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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