SureWest Telephone was founded in 1914 as a rural provider of telephone services. Today, SureWest Telephone serves 110,000 access lines to homes and businesses, offering advanced communications products and services within an 83 square-mile service territory. SureWest Telephone is the largest local exchange carrier headquartered in California, with among the highest miles of fiber optics per capita in the nation.

For voice or data, network services, or hardware option s, SureWest Telephone offers everything needed to design, install and maintain a dynamic, operable, flexible solution for business communications. SureWest Telephone provides customers with advanced local and long-distance telephone features, including DSL Internet connections, call forwarding, caller ID, call waiting, voice mail and extensive operator services. SureWest Telephone works with customers to help expand their businesses with sophisticated fiber optics and business network options such as Centrex, PBX and LAN. In addition, SureWest Telephone is capable of providing DSL service to 100 percent of its service area.

In 2002, SureWest Telephone announced it’s new high-speed Ethernet-based Metropolitan Area Network service called EtherMAN. EtherMAN provides a highly scalable transport service that allows data to be carried at up to Gigabit speeds, utilizing the latest in metropolitan Ethernet technology.

SureWest Telephone also features “unlimited” calling plans for residential and small business customers. Packages beginning at $29.95 are available for customers who want unlimited local, California and national calling plans. The packages combine unlimited local and long distance with calling features and a voice mail feature called “SingleAccess,” that allows customers the ability to share their SureWest Telephone voice mail with other SureWest Telephone or SureWest Wireless phone numbers. Customers can then bundle an unlimited plan with any combination of high-speed Internet, Digital TV and wireless services for added savings.

SureWest offers InfinitAccess, an innovative bundle of services including digital TV, high-speed Internet and unlimited wireless all from one source. Customers purchasing an InfinitAccess package get significant savings on services when purchased with local and long distance telephone packages.

SureWest Telephone businesses include:

• SureWest Telephone
• Roseville Telephone Museum, presented by SureWest (nonprofit)