SureWest Communications Added to the Russell 2000 Index

ROSEVILLE, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading independent
communications holding company SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) today
announced it has been added to the small-cap Russell 2000(R) Index resulting
from Russell Investments reconstituting its comprehensive set of U.S. and
global equity indexes on June 26.

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Annual reconstitution of Russell's U.S. indexes captures the 4,000 largest
U.S. stocks as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization.
Membership in the Russell 3000, which remains in place for one year, means
automatic inclusion in the large-cap Russell 1000(R) Index or small-cap
Russell 2000(R) Index as well as the appropriate growth and value style
indexes. Russell determines membership for its equity indexes primarily by
objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.

"SureWest has rejoined the Russell 2000 Index based on relative valuations and
the critical decisions we made in 2008 that helped place us in the very strong
financial position we are in today," said Steve Oldham, SureWest's president
and CEO. "These significant decisions have allowed us to maintain our strong
performance and revenue growth in a very difficult business environment and
will allow us to continue to create shareholder value in the long run."

The Russell 3000 also serves as the U.S. component to the Russell Global
Index, which Russell launched in 2007.

Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional
investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active
investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currently are
benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's
multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s when the company saw the
need for a more objective, market-driven set of benchmarks in order to
evaluate outside investment managers.

Total returns data for the Russell 3000 and other Russell Indexes is available
at http://www.russell.com/Indexes/performance/default.asp.

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 95 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:
Media Relations: Ron Rogers . 916-746-3123 . r.rogers@surewest.com
Investor Relations: Misty Wells . 916-786-1799 . m.wells@surewest.com

SOURCE SureWest Communications

Ron Rogers, Media Relations, +1-916-746-3123, r.rogers@surewest.com, or Misty
Wells, Investor Relations, +1-916-786-1799, m.wells@surewest.com