Cincinnati Bell is the dominant telephone company for Cincinnati, Ohio, and its nearby suburbs in the U.S. states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The parent company is named Cincinnati Bell Inc. Its incumbent local exchange carrier subsidiary uses the name Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company LLC, and Cincinnati Bell Wireless provides mobile phone services. Other subsidiaries handle services such as payphones and long distance calling. Since the 2000s, Cincinnati Bell has diversified into other utilities, such as IPTV and household electricity. Cincinnati Bell started out as the City and... Suburban Telegraph Company and was providing telegraph lines between homes and businesses in 1873, three years before the invention of the telephone. In 1878, it gained exclusive rights to the Bell franchise within a 25-mile radius of Cincinnati; it has substantially the same incumbent local exchange carrier territory today: straddling a 3-state area. Cincinnati Bell and Southern New England Telephone were the only two companies in the old Bell System that operated independently because AT&T only owned minority stakes in the companies.
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| NYSE symbol: | CBB |
| Founded: | 1873 |
| Headquarters: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Legal structure: | Public company |
| Annual revenue: | $1,403,000,000 |
| Net income: | $102,600,000 |
| Operating income: | $457,600,000 |
| Market cap: | $1,200,000,000 |
| Industries: | Telephone Communications, Except Radiotelephone, Telecommunications |