Our purpose is to deliver a level of service that proves we
are the Value Leader in Business Voice and High–Speed
Data Service in Southwest Florida.

Company Overview

DayStar, with our fully-digital network, offers world-class, state-of-the-art data and voice telephone services to meet the communications needs of business customers. Customers can select the speed, capacity and quantity of our telecommunications solutions and rely on our local service and sales personnel to ensure rapid response and customized telecommunications solutions. Rest assured that we will use our people, our technology and our processes to serve our customers' current and future communications needs in a way that distinguishes us from the competition.

Proud Heritage

For over 100 years, local business customers had only one choice in who provides their telecommunications services. Now they can choose the value leader in high-speed voice and data communications - DayStar. Our company's network utilizes the best and latest technology available in digital switching & access, fiber optics, microwave radio and broadband communications.

DayStar is a division of Sun Coast Media Group, Inc. (SCMG) which publishes the Sun newspapers in Charlotte, Englewood, North Port and DeSoto and the Venice Gondolier Sun in Venice. This highly diverse company is led by President and Publisher, Derek Dunn-Rankin, a veteran and accomplished newspaperman. Today Sun Coast Media Group has over 500 employees and five locations, including printing press facilities in both Charlotte and Sarasota counties.

SCMG operates the area's leading dial-up Internet Service Providers (ISP) Sunline, NetNeighbors, and Nut-N-But. In addition, the company has developed a sophisticated real estate software program called EZlist-MLS. This software is used by the real estate industry to manage its multiple listings data, and the program is marketed nationwide.

Sun Coast Media Group is one of Florida's leading and multifaceted communications companies and is locally owned with over 100 employee stockholders. SCMG is currently the leading local provider of print newspapers, real estate magazines, Internet connection and web services in Venice and in Charlotte and DeSoto counties.

Value Offering

DayStar brings unparalleled telecommunications technology and service value to the business community in southwest Florida. We used our extensive experience in network engineering, implementation and management to build a world-class, state-of-the-art telecommunications company, a company whose purpose is to make this performance-improving technology available, so DayStar customers can compete with any competitor, anywhere.

DayStar customers can now rely on local service and sales personnel to ensure rapid response and customized telecommunications solutions. Businesses in southwest Florida can enjoy the choices they have long needed and wanted as DayStar provides reliable, flexible and enhanced telecommunications services at down-to-earth prices.

Our services include local and long distance telephone service, DSL broadband Internet access, Fiber, T1 and PRI high-capacity service, StarWave wireless high-speed Internet access, voice mail, e-mail and much more. In summary, we are a full service telephone company serving businesses in Southwest Florida.