is the dominant
Telephone Company for
Cincinnati, Ohio and its nearby suburbs in
Ohio ,
Indiana and
Kentucky . The parent company is named '''Cincinnati Bell Inc.''' The
ILEC (original phone company)
Subsidiary uses the name '''Cincinnati Bell Telephone''', and
Cincinnati Bell Wireless provides
Mobile Phone (cellular) services. Other subsidiaries handle services such as
Payphone s and long distance (
IXC operations).
Cincinnati Bell started out as the and was providing area.
Cincinnati Bell and
Southern New England Telephone were the only two companies in the old
Bell System that were owned independently of
AT&T (AT&T held only minority interests in these two companies); therefore, neither is considered a
Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC). AT&T held 25.7% interest in Cincinnati Bell before
1984 . SNET was bought by
SBC , an RBOC, in
1998 , but Cincinnati Bell has remained independent.
During the
1990s , Cincinnati Bell acquired a nationwide transmission network formerly known as IXC Communications, and changed its corporate name to "Broadwing Communications," although the local telephone operations continued to operate under their traditional name. In the
2000s , the holding company divested the long-distance operation and changed its name back to Cincinnati Bell. Cincinnati Bell is one of the only two companies that continues to use the Bell logo in their corporate logo, designed in
1969 , by
Saul Bass . However, after
AT&T completes its purchase of
BellSouth , Cincinnati Bell will become the last remaining company to use the Bell logo. Cincinnati Bell's
Stock is
Publicly Traded on the
New York Stock Exchange with the
Stock Symbol .
Cincinnati Bell provides wireless service through
Cincinnati Bell Wireless , which it now fully owns.
Cingular Wireless owned 20% of the company after it took over
AT&T Wireless in
2004 . Cincinnati Bell purchased the 20% Cingular owned on
February 17 ,
2006 , for $80 million.
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Cincinnati Bell's Internet offerings include
Dial-up and
ADSL access under the Fuse and
ZoomTown brands, respectively.
