Broadband provider captures access revenue and increases profit margins with HickoryTech service

MANKATO, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2007--HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq:HTCO) today announced that Bresnan Communications has signed a multi-year service bureau contract for HickoryTech's SuiteSolution(R) service to bill for carrier access billing (CABS). Bresnan Communications, a broadband telecommunications company, serves customers throughout Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. SuiteSolution's CABS will form a key part of Bresnan's strategy to accurately and efficiently bill other telecommunication providers for access to Bresnan's fiber network. HickoryTech provides next-generation billing and customer management software to communications service providers across North America.

"Capturing access revenue from carriers that access our network makes good business sense," said Robert C. Black, Bresnan CABS analyst. "We searched for a cost-effective, proven CABS solution and found both with HickoryTech." Bresnan Communications, with regional operations in Billings, Mont., delivers high-speed Internet access, high-definition television, video-on-demand, digital video recorder, and telephone to residential and business customers across a fiber-optic coaxial network that spans 95 percent of its footprint.

"Companies today need assurance that all access revenue is captured and billed. SuiteSolution provides that assurance," stated Lane Nordquist, president of HickoryTech's Information Solutions Division. "Flexibility, competitive pricing and confidence in our service, quality and reliability are just a few reasons why communications companies continue to choose HickoryTech for CABS billing."

SuiteSolution's CABS module produces invoices following small exchange carrier access billing (SECAB) industry standards, which include the ability to create monthly invoices for switched and facility access in either mechanized or paper format. The electronic data can be accessed online by the user for further reporting and analysis on issues such as determining credits for dropped calls and justifying charges billed in the event of a dispute. HickoryTech's SuiteSolution(R) is a Web-based modular system combining customer relationship manager, back office manager, work flow manager, plant records, trouble reporting, message processing, batch process manager, and carrier access billing (SECAB compliant) to process monthly billing for IP, wireline, Internet/broadband, video, data or wireless services.

About HickoryTech: HickoryTech Corporation is a diversified communications company headquartered in Mankato, Minn., with operations in Minnesota and Iowa and has approximately 400 employees. In its 110th year of operation, HickoryTech offers a full array of telecommunications products and services to business and residential customers. The Telecom Sector offers local voice, long distance, Internet, Broadband services, Digital TV and IP networking. The Enventis Telecom Sector provides IP-based voice and data services and network solutions on a statewide SONET-based network. The Information Solutions Sector develops telecom and carrier access billing solutions. To learn more about HickoryTech Corporation, visit the company's Web site at www.hickorytech.com.

About Bresnan Communications: Bresnan Communications is a broadband telecommunications company founded by Bill Bresnan in 1984. The company serves customers throughout Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Today, Bresnan offers advanced digital voice, video and high-speed Internet services, including digital phone service, digital cable, digital video recorder service, high-definition TV, video-on-demand and high-speed Internet service. The company also serves the business community through its business services and advertising sales divisions. More information about Bresnan is available at www.bresnan.com.

Certain statements included in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry in which HickoryTech operates and management's beliefs and assumptions. The forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and probabilities. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they were made. Except as required by federal securities laws, HickoryTech undertakes no obligation to update any of its forward-looking statements for any reason.

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