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Wireline
The Wireline segment provides local voice telephone service and custom calling features, and data services,
including high-speed internet access, dedicated network access, ATM — Gig-E based data transport, and dial-up
internet access to customers in southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana through the
operations of CBT, an ILEC in its operating territory of an approximate 25-mile radius of Cincinnati, Ohio.
CBT’s network has full digital switching capability and can provide data transmission services to approximately
96% of its in-territory access lines via DSL.
Outside of the ILEC territory, the Wireline segment provides these services through CBET, which operates
as a CLEC in the communities north of CBT’s operating territory including the Dayton, Ohio market. CBET
provides voice and data services for residential and business customers on its own network and by purchasing
unbundled network elements from the ILEC. The Wireline segment links the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio
geographies through its SONET, which provides route diversity via two separate paths.
In 2011, the Company continued to expand its Fioptics product suite of services, which are fiber-based
entertainment, high-speed internet and voice services. Fioptics now passes 134,000 addresses, about 20% of
Greater Cincinnati, and has 39,600 Fioptics entertainment customers.
The Wireline segment also includes long distance, audio conferencing, other broadband services including
private line and MPLS, and payphone services.
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