SureWest Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend; Announces Date of Annual Meeting.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ROSEVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004

SureWest (Nasdaq:SURW) announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.25 per share payable June 15, 2004, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 28, 2004.

The company noted that, while the amount of dividends in the future remains at the discretion of the board of directors, and depends, among other things, on the company's capital requirements, it anticipates continuing dividends in the foreseeable future.

                         Amount        Payable Date      Record Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regular Cash           $0.25          6-15-2004         5-28-2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Annual Shareholder Meeting

SureWest's annual shareholder meeting is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 11, 2004, at the Company's 8150 Industrial Avenue address in Roseville, CA. Please visit http://www.surewest.com/contact/ to view maps and directions.

About SureWest

With nearly 90 years in Northern California, SureWest and its family of companies represent an integrated network of highly reliable advanced communications products and services with the highest standards of customer care. Founded as Roseville Telephone Company, the company has expanded to provide digital cable TV, fiber optics, PCS wireless, DSL, high-speed Internet access, data transport, local and long distance telephone service, and directories. For more information, visit the SureWest web site at www.surewest.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

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. 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 competition in markets in which the company operates, the availability of future financing, changes in the demand for services and products, new product and service development and introductions, pending and future litigation and unanticipated changes in the growth of the company's emerging businesses, including the digital cable, PCS, Internet and CLEC operating entities.