Cincinnati Bell said today it will expand broadband coverage in 17 greater Cincinnati, Dayton and Hawaiian counties, using spectrum that it won in the recent CBRS auction, Auction 105. Cincinnati Bell CBRS winnings include 56 Priority Access Licenses (PALs). The…
A Cincinnati Bell, Butler Rural Electric Cooperative partnership will expand fiber broadband to parts of rural Ohio, the companies announced today. The deal highlights the potential growing interest in telco electric partnerships for rural broadband. The Cincinnati Bell, Butler Rural…
Cincinnati Bell and YouTube TV are partnering to promote the streaming video service in Hawaii and the greater Cincinnati area. The promotion targets the carrier’s fiber-connected customers. Cincinnati Bell’s Fioptics Internet was available to about three-quarters of the greater Cincinnati…
Cincinnati Bell today announced an agreement by which institutional investment firm Brookfield Infrastructure will acquire it for approximately $2.6 billion, including debt. Brookfield Infrastructure has a global portfolio of assets in the utilities, transport, energy and data infrastructure sectors across…
Cincinnati Bell will be donating the upfront charges to deploy a smart city offering in a historic Dayton, Ohio neighborhood known as Oregon District. The Cincinnati Bell smart city deployment involves installing fiber to provide free public Wi-Fi in the…
The FCC said today that it has authorized $111.6 million in funding won through the Connect America Fund (CAF) auction to 10 entities to help cover the cost of bringing broadband to 37,148 rural locations where broadband is not currently…
New 10GB optical networking hardware from Cincinnati Bell unit CBTS, launched today, aims to reduce the cost and complexity of broadband deployment. The offering is one example of broader CBTS efforts to give network operators a new level of flexibility…
Nearly half of CAF II auction bidders (103 out of 220) won funding, according to data about CAF II auction winners released by the FCC today. That means most entities won relatively low funding amounts. Just over 100 entities will…
July 02, 2018 — CINCINNATI & HONOLULU–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB) (the “Company” or “Cincinnati Bell”), today announced the Company has completed its acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. (“Hawaiian Telcom”), the leading integrated communications provider serving Hawaiʻi, and the state’s…
June 19, 2018 — CINCINNATI & HONOLULU–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB) announced today that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Cincinnati Bell’s acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCOM). The FCC’s approval of the merger follows the unanimous…
More than three quarters (76%) of Cincinnati Bell revenues will come from the enterprise market assuming the company completes two key acquisitions announced today, including incumbent telco Hawaiian Telcom and IT solutions provider OnX Enterprise Solutions. The Cincinnati Bell Hawaiian…
CenturyLink today reached an agreement to sell its data centers to “funds advised by BC Partners, in a consortium including Medina Capital Advisors and Longview Asset Management.” The CenturyLink data center sale will generate $2.15 billion in cash for the…
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