Sacramento-based SureWest Communications offers consumers a mix of fiber to the home service and ADSL2+. Surewest already offers IPTV service to its fiber customers, who can get symmetrical service at speeds up to 25Mbps for $70 bundled, $84 unbundled. Customers out of range have had to make due with vanilla DSL, though last fall the carrier started offering users bonded ADSL2+ services at speeds up to 10Mbps ($31.99).

Surewest now says they're going to offer IPTV services to those customers before the end of the year. The company says the new IPTV services will reach 25,000 customers; 15,000 customers will see the service by December 2009, and an additional 10,000 will be connected by the second quarter of 2010. According to the company, they've made the jump to MPEG-4 compression and are using the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.

Surewest remains an interesting mish-mash of DSL and fiber, older and recently acquired networks. In December of 2007, SureWest announced plans to acquire Kansas City-based Everest Broadband for $173 million.

Sacramento-based SureWest Communications today announced that starting June 30, fiber to the home customers in Sacramento will be getting free speed upgrades with a price drop. According to the carrier, current 3Mbps ($31 bundled, $51 unbundled) downstream and 1Mbps upstream customers will be upgraded to a symmetrical 3Mbps. Existing symmetrical 10Mbps customers ($41 bundled, $66 unbundled) will be upgraded to symmetrical 15Mbps. Existing symmetrical 20Mbps customers ($70 bundled, $84 unbundled) will be upgraded to symmetrical 25Mbps. Internet speed upgrades in SureWest’s Kansas City market, which they purchased in 2007 and integrated in 2008, are planned for 2010.

Last December, Sacramento-based SureWest Communications announced plans to acquire Kansas City-based Everest Broadband for $173 million. Actual integration was largely finished last February, but Everest Broadband customers didn't officially take on the Surewest brand name until July.

While it's not exactly the symmetrical 50Mbps fiber connectivity the company offers in portions of California and Kansas City, Surewest today announced that the company has started offering bonded DSL. By assigning two customer pairs to each home (assuming a second pair is available), Surewest is now improving service reach, while bumping the speed of their 3Mbps tier to 6Mbps, and 6Mbps tier to 10Mbps. Surewest says they're offering twelve month introductory rates of $27.99 for the 6Mbps tier, and $31.99 per month for the 10Mbps tier.

"As we continue to expand our advanced fiber-to-the-home network in Sacramento and Kansas City, we are also creating a superior customer experience for our copper subscribers by providing them with the most bandwidth and highest speeds technology allows," says Surewest CTO Bill DeMuth. "Bonded DSL allows us to provide faster Internet speeds deeper into our copper network, and now over 50 percent of potential DSL subscribers have access to 10 Mbps."

Last December, Sacramento-based SureWest Communications announced plans to acquire Kansas City-based Everest Broadband for $173 million. Actual integration was largely finished last February, but Everest Broadband customers didn't officially take on the Surewest brand name until July. Now that the integration is completed, Kansas City locals are being offered 100Mbps symmetrical fiber connectivity, according to a company press release. Not all of that bandwidth can be used for Internet access, the company offering 20 Mbps connections for $91.99 when bundled with one other service, or $191.99 for 50 Mbps service. Surewest hopes to serve 10,000 Kansas City homes by the end of the year.

Last December, Sacramento-based SureWest Communications announced plans to acquire Kansas City-based Everest Broadband for $173 million. Actual integration was largely finished last February, but Everest Broadband customers didn't officially take on the Surewest brand name until today. According to a statement by the company, they'll be offering Kansas City locals 18 new HD channels within the next thirty days. The company says they'll also be expanding their service to 10,000 new customers, 8,000 of which will have access to faster 50Mbps fiber speeds.

Sacramento-based SureWest Communications has announced plans to acquire Kansas City-based Everest Broadband for $173 million. The deal will bring 200,000 revenue generating units (each RGU is an individual component in a triple play offer) under their control. The deal also gives Surewest 117,000 new voice access customers. The deal will more than double SureWest’s triple-play residential subscriber base -- though many of those customers are getting fiber services back home in California. Back in March the operator laid claim to being the "fastest Internet speed in the country" after they started offering 50Mbps symmetrical fiber.