ROSEVILLE, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent communications holding company SureWest Communications will release financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2008 before the market opens on Thursday, March 12, 2009.
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Additionally, SureWest today filed a supplemental 8-K providing updated unaudited Pro Forma financial and statistical information through the third quarter 2008 on the various transactions the company has entered into over the last two years.
The company will release full year 2008 results on Thursday, March 12, 2009 and host a conference call and live webcast at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Open to the public, the webcast will be available live from the company's investor relations Web site at http://www.surw.com/. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available shortly after completion through Thursday, March 19 by dialing (888) 286-8010 and entering passcode 92176264. Visit http://www.surw.com/ for updates prior to the call.
About SureWest Communications
SureWest Communications (http://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. Its fiber-to-the-premise IP-based network in the Sacramento region features the fastest symmetrical Internet speeds in the nation at up to 50 Mbps. In its Kansas City market (http://www.surewestkc.com/), 75 percent of the company's customers subscribe to at least three services.
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Statements made in this news release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, these forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as may, will, should, expect, plan, anticipate, or project or the negative of those words or other comparable words. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to differ from those projected in such forward-looking statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, advances in telecommunications technology, changes in the telecommunications regulatory environment, changes in the financial stability of other telecommunications providers who are customers of the company, changes in competition in markets in which the company operates, adverse circumstances affecting the economy in California, Kansas and Missouri in general, and in the Sacramento, California Metropolitan and greater Kansas City Metropolitan areas in particular, the availability of future financing, changes in the demand for services and products, new product and service development and introductions, and pending and future litigation.
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