Roughly 1,500 Homes in Merriam and Olathe Now Have Access to the Nation's
Fastest Internet Speeds and Superior HDTV Over the Region's Highest
Performing Residential Fiber-to-the-Home Network
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent
communications holding company SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW)
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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CONTACT:
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