19 Facts About Cincinnati Bell

Cincinnati Bell, doing business as Altafiber, is a regional telecommunications service provider based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

Cincinnati Bell was founded in 1873 as a telegraph company and for much of its history was a Bell System franchisee.

Cincinnati Bell divested its mobile phone service in 2014 to focus on enterprise and fiber-optic services.

Cincinnati Bell was founded as the City and Suburban Telegraph Association on July 5, 1873.

In 2002, Cincinnati Bell sold Cincinnati Bell Directory, consisting of its directory operations, to Spectrum Equity.

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The sale marked the first time a former Cincinnati Bell System-affiliated company had sold off its directory operations.

In September 2021, Cincinnati Bell was acquired by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.

Cincinnati Bell was, from 2006 to 2022, the only former Bell System company that continued to publicly do business under the "Bell" name.

In July 2006, Cincinnati Bell removed the final iteration of the Bell logo—designed in 1969 by Saul Bass—from most of its corporate branding, leaving only a stylized wordmark.

Since the 1870s, Cincinnati Bell Telephone has been the ILEC within a radius of approximately 25 miles from downtown Cincinnati.

Hawaiian Telcom, which Cincinnati Bell acquired in 2018, is the ILEC for the entire state of Hawaii.

Cincinnati Bell has historically focused on traditional landline service, but in recent decades it has expanded into adjacent communications and entertainment services.

Cincinnati Bell offers Internet access to customers in its service area.

In 2011, Cincinnati Bell became the first telecommunications company to provide retail energy service.

From 1998 until 2015, Cincinnati Bell Wireless offered GSM wireless service in southeastern Indiana, southwestern Ohio, and northwestern Kentucky.

On February 17, 2006, Cincinnati Bell took full control of CBW by purchasing Cingular's stake for $83 million.

Cincinnati Bell Wireless ended service on February 28, 2015, and the company's retail locations began selling Verizon products.

Cincinnati Bell's headquarters are located in the Atrium Two building on 4th Street in Downtown Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Bell owns the naming rights to the Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar line that traverses the downtown area.