ROSEVILLE, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent communications holding company SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) will release financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009 after the market closes on Thursday, October 29, 2009.

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SureWest will host a conference call and live webcast providing details about its results and business strategy at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, October 29, 2009. Open to the public, a simultaneous live webcast of the call will be available from the company's investor relations Web site at www.surw.com. A telephone replay of the call will be available shortly after the call through November 5, 2009 by dialing 888.286.8010 and entering pass code 93314295. Visit www.surw.com for updates prior to the call.

About SureWest Communications

SureWest Communications (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. SureWest was the nation's first provider to launch residential HDTV over an IP network and offers one of the nation's fastest symmetrical Internet services with speeds of up to 50 Mbps in each direction on its fiber-to-the-home network.

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

              Misty Wells
              Investor Relations
              916-786-1799
              m.wells@surewest.com

SOURCE SureWest Communications