EDINBURG, Va., Aug. 26, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shenandoah Telecommunications Company ("Shentel") (NASDAQ:SHEN) today announced that the Company will attend the Drexel Hamilton Telecom, Media & Technology Conference at the W New York Hotel on Lexington Avenue on Thursday, September 10. Shentel management will be presenting at 11:20 a.m. EDT and will be available for one-on-one meetings.

For additional information or to schedule a one-on-one meeting, please contact your Drexel Hamilton representative.

About Shenandoah Telecommunications

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) provides a broad range of diversified communications services through its high speed, state-of-the-art network to customers in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The Company's services include: wireless voice and data; cable video, internet and voice; fiber network and services; and local and long distance telephone. Shentel is the exclusive personal communications service ("PCS") Affiliate of Sprint in portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. For more information, please visit www.shentel.com.

This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of unforeseen factors. A discussion of factors that may cause actual results to differ from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations is available in the Company filings with the SEC. Those factors may include changes in general economic conditions, increases in costs, changes in regulation and other competitive factors.

CONTACT: Shenandoah Telecommunications, Inc.
         Adele Skolits
         CFO and VP of Finance
         540-984-5161
         Adele.skolits@emp.shentel.com
         
         Or
         
         John Nesbett/Jennifer Belodeau
         Institutional Marketing Services (IMS)
         203-972-9200
         jnesbett@institutionalms.com