Exhibit 99.1

NORTH PITTSBURGH SYSTEMS, INC.

4008 GIBSONIA ROAD

GIBSONIA, PA 15044-9311

Contact: Allen P. Kimble Phone: (724) 443-9575 Fax: (724) 443-9431

NORTH PITTSBURGH SYSTEMS, INC.

REPORTS QUARTERLY DIVIDEND DECLARATION

August 27, 2007 Gibsonia, Pennsylvania – North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NPSI) announced that a common stock quarterly dividend of $.20 per share is payable on October 15, 2007 to shareholders of record on October 1, 2007. North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. has total assets of $157 million and operates an integrated high-technology telecommunications business in Western Pennsylvania providing competitive and local exchange services, long distance and Internet services through its subsidiaries, North Pittsburgh Telephone Company, Penn Telecom, Inc. and Pinnatech, Inc. (d/b/a Nauticom).

Prospectus/Proxy Statement

This material is not a substitute for the prospectus/proxy statement Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. and North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors are urged to read the prospectus/proxy statement, which will contain important information, including detailed risk factors, when it becomes available. The prospectus/proxy statement and other documents which will be filed by Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. and North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission will be available free of charge at the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov, or by directing a request when such a filing is made to Consolidated Communications, 121 South 17th Street, Mattoon, IL 61938, Attention: Investor Relations; or to North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc., 4008 Gibsonia Road, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 15044, Attention: Investor Relations. The final prospectus/proxy statement will be mailed to shareholders of North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc.

This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.

Proxy Solicitation

Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. and North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc., and certain of their respective directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees are participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the proposed transactions. Information about the directors and executive officers of Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. is set forth in the proxy statement for Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc.’s 2007 annual meeting of shareholders. Information about the directors and executive officers of North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. is set forth in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, as amended. Investors may obtain additional information regarding the interests of such participants in the proposed transactions by reading the prospectus/proxy statement for such proposed transactions when it becomes available.