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SureWest Broadband

SureWest Broadband began doing business in 1999 as a provider of advanced communications products and services in the Sacramento metropolitan region dedicated to providing customers with the highest level of customer care and reliability. SureWest Broadband provides a vast array of products and services for both business and residential customers.

Business Services
For businesses, SureWest Broadband’s professional project engineers consult, design and install a wide array of voice and data telecommunications solutions.

Voice

  • Local Telephone Service

Data
  Metro Fiber Access:

  • Carrier Access -- Wide Area Networks (WAN)
  • Metropolitan Area Networks

  Data Center Services:

  • Web Hosting
  • Co-location
  • Data Storage, Back-up and Recovery

Internet

  • Ethernet
  • ATM DS-3
  • T1
  • DSL
  • Dial-up

SureWest Broadband partners with land developers, builders and corporate IT customers to deliver high-speed communications access via a 100 percent fiber optic network, fixed wireless and/or wirelines. An example of such a partnership is the McClellan Business Park, where SureWest Broadband is the preferred telecommunications provider. In 2003, SureWest Broadband began targeting the underserved small and medium business enterprises in some specific areas of Sacramento with a fiber optic-based Internet service. The service is an Ethernet-based product providing symmetrical Internet speeds ranging from .5 Mbps to 5 Mbps per link, is hyper-speed fast--capable of speeds much faster than DSL and the traditional T1 service offerings of other companies.

Residential Services
In 2002, SureWest Broadband Residential Services was established as the most progressive and exciting bundle of consumer services marketed to select subdivisions and neighborhoods in the greater Sacramento region. SureWest Broadband was first in the Sacramento region to offer a triple-play of digital TV (including video-on-demand and pay-per-view), high-speed Internet and telephone service. SureWest’s triple-play bundle is priced on one bill for enhanced customer convenience and satisfaction.

Digital Television
SureWest Broadband features the widest selection of digital video entertainment choices available anywhere including:

  • 50 HD channels
  • Over 260 channels
  • More than 150 channels on digital choice
  • More than 75 premium multiplex channels including HBO, Showtime, Starz and more
  • 28 channels of international programming from around the world
  • Live pay per view events and packages
  • Video-on-demand:
    • More than 400 hours of programming per month including the latest blockbuster hits, concerts, TV favorites and how-to videos
    • Unlimited viewing with a 24-hour window: watch as many times as wanted with full VCR functionality – stop, pause, rewind, fast-forward or start over.

High-speed Internet
Through a direct, dedicated fiber connection to the home, SureWest Broadband is a fast route to the Internet and back with a 10 Mbps Ethernet connection to computers.

Telephone Service
Local and long distance telephone services include a full-feature set of services on a fiber network giving customers quality and reliability.

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