ROSEVILLE, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent communications holding company SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) will participate in the 2009 Capstone Investments Small Cap Investor Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Thursday, July 30, 2009.

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SureWest's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Dan Bessey is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. CDT. A webcast will be available live that day and for replay afterward via the Investor Relations page at www.surw.com. When tuning in, allow appropriate advance time for registration.

About SureWest

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.

    Contacts:  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