ROSEVILLE, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent telecommunications holding company SureWest Communications announced today that it is expanding its voice and Internet services to roughly 10,000 businesses in the Sacramento metropolitan area.
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The voice and Internet products will be delivered over SureWest's Internet Protocol (IP) network utilizing dynamic bandwidth allocation and circuit bonding over Type II T1 circuits to provide:
-- Voice services ranging from phone lines with unlimited regional and
nationwide calling to high capacity Primary Rate Interface service
-- T1 Internet access with speeds of up to 3 Mbps for both uploading and
downloading
"The local business community is a key demographic as SureWest continues to grow and expand in the Sacramento region," says Peter Drozdoff, SureWest's vice president of marketing. "There is a substantial amount of business growth in our region, which results in a lot of service growth that we are prepared to take advantage of. This is a win-win situation as it allows us to grow our footprint and gain more customers, while providing even more businesses with the extra benefit of having an option to choose a highly reliability and cost- effective service for their telephone and Internet needs."
SureWest is leveraging this business expansion with a comprehensive sales and marketing campaign targeted at each of the businesses, promoting the high- speed Internet and telephone products bundled with its wireless Travel Plans that offer unlimited local calling and minutes to use nationwide for businesspeople on the go.
About SureWest
Serving the Northern California region for more than 90 years, SureWest Communications ( http://www.surewest.com/ ) is one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers. SureWest's bundled offerings include an array of advanced digital video, high-speed Internet, local and long distance telephone, PCS wireless and directories services. SureWest's fiber-to-the- premise IP-based network features high definition video and Internet speeds of up to 20Mbps.
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