Altafiber

Cincinnati Bell, Inc.
Altafiber
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1873; 151 years ago (1873)
HeadquartersCincinnati, Ohio, United States
Area served
Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Hawaii
Key people
ProductsLocal telephone service, IPTV internet
RevenueIncrease US$1.599 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended 31 December 2020)[2]
Decrease US$66.0 Million (Fiscal Year Ended 31 December 2020)[2]
Increase -US$55.6 Million (Fiscal Year Ended 31 December 2020)[2]
Total assetsIncrease US$2.668 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended 31 December 2020)[2]
Total equityIncrease US$191.1 Million (Fiscal Year Ended 31 December 2020)[2]
Number of employees
5,350 (2023)
ParentMacquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
Subsidiaries
  • Cincinnati Bell Telephone
  • CBTS
  • Cincinnati Bell Any Distance
  • OnX Canada
  • Agile Networks
  • Hawaiian Telcom
Websitewww.altafiber.com

Cincinnati Bell, Inc., doing business as Altafiber,[3] is a regional telecommunications service provider based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It provides landline telephone, fiber-optic Internet, and IPTV services through its subsidiaries Altafiber Home Phone and Hawaiian Telcom, which are the incumbent local exchange carriers for the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area (aka "The Tri-State") and Hawaii. Other subsidiaries provide enterprise information technology services and long distance calling.

Cincinnati Bell was founded in 1873 as a telegraph company and for much of its history was a Bell System franchisee. In the 1990s, Cincinnati Bell expanded into Internet access and mobile phone services. The company divested its mobile phone service in 2014 to focus on enterprise and fiber-optic services.[4] It was acquired in September 2021 by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, and began doing business as Altafiber in March 2022.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Form 10-K" (PDF). Cincinnati Bell. February 22, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d e "Cincinnati Bell, Inc. 2020 Annual Report" (PDF). Cincinnati Bell. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ Staff, FOX19 Digital (2021-09-07). "Cincinnati Bell bought in $2.9B deal". www.fox19.com. Retrieved 2024-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Enquirer Pichler was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference CBC Macquarie was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference enq-alta was invoked but never defined (see the help page).