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SureWest Rolls Out New IPTV Features Including Online DVR Manager
6/11/10 at 9:27 AM by Telecompetitor
ROSEVILLE, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) announced today that Advanced Digital TV customers in its Sacramento region can now enjoy an even better viewing experience with the launch of Online DVR Manager and Caller ID on TV. These new features bring greater flexibility and convenience to the market-leading TV service at no additional cost to qualifying ...
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SureWest Turns To Switched Digital Video for Bandwidth Efficiency
6/9/10 at 8:29 AM by Bernie Arnason
SureWest, based in Roseville, California, has always been somewhat of a pioneer. They were an early adopter of IPTV and were an early rider of the current FTTH wave. Following in that tradition, SureWest is now ...
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What’s a Remedy for Wireline Voice Losses? IP Voice
5/3/10 at 12:44 PM by Bernie Arnason
Say what you want about the local wireline telephone business – dying on the vine, melting ice cube, past its prime, etc. – it’s still the primary business for hundreds of phone companies across the U.S., with a couple Fortune 500 companies among them (CenturyLink, Qwest, and probably Frontier, post ...
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U-verse + FiOS = SureWest ADTV
1/21/10 at 4:57 PM by Bernie Arnason
SureWest announced the official launch of its Advanced Digital TV (ADTV) product in its Sacramento market. ADTV represents an IPTV migration of sorts for SureWest – they’ve been in the IPTV business for many years with a ...
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Residential VoIP For ILECs Shows Promise
10/29/09 at 11:49 PM by Bernie Arnason
While still relatively a small proportion among total residential voice lines, IP voice lines are on the rise. They may represent the brightest spot among the normally depressing decline of total access lines among ILECs. Early indications suggest IP voice lines offered by ILECs as a primary access line help slowdown ...
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SureWest Selects Metaswitch for Hosted IP
10/21/09 at 10:37 AM by Telecompetitor
Leading communications provider selects MetaSphere to deliver advanced voice applications to business customers
SUPERCOMM 2009, Chicago, October 21, 2009 — Metaswitch Networks, a leading provider of carrier systems and communications software solutions, today announced that SureWest Communications (NASDAQ:SURW) has selected the MetaSphere Application/Feature Server to provide advanced IP telephony services for business customers. Delivered over SureWest's state-of-the-art network, the new MetaSphere-based ...
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SureWest Reports 2Q09 Results
8/8/09 at 3:13 PM by Andrew Burger
SureWest reported net income down 95.4% to $959,000 for 2Q 2009 as compared to $20.9 million a year ago, a quarter in which the company recorded a $19 million profit on the sale of wireless assets. Free cash flow rose $13.5 million to ...
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SureWest Goes All In With Wireline
8/3/09 at 5:11 PM by Bernie Arnason
While many traditional wireline companies are looking for ways to offer wireless service, SureWest appears to be taking the contrarian view. They just announced the sale of their fixed wireless broadband business to Yonder ...
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Surewest Mediaroom Move: Precursor to Middleware Battle?
7/29/09 at 12:50 AM by Bernie Arnason
SureWest announced a move to Microsoft’s Mediaroom middleware platform for their IPTV service. SureWest previously used Minerva middleware. They are also expanding their IPTV footprint in their Sacramento, California market by an additional 25,000 homes using ...
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SureWest Selects ADTRAN for Carrier Ethernet
7/13/09 at 6:16 PM by Bernie Arnason
ADTRAN Products Enable Reuse of Existing TDM Network to Deliver Advanced Ethernet Solutions
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 13, 2009-- ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation access solutions, announced today that leading independent communications holding company SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) has selected the ADTRAN Total Access 5000 Carrier Ethernet Access Platform and NetVanta 800 Series of intelligent Network Termination Units ...
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