Cincinnati Bell Creates New Businesses and Restructures Business Units for Emerging New Communications Marketplace.

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1999--

Two New Businesses and Four New Business Units

Increase Autonomy and Accountability

Cincinnati Bell is creating new businesses and restructuring its business units effective today to strengthen its position in key markets, enhance its ability to serve customers quickly and increase accountability as the regulatory environment continues to change and a new communications marketplace emerges.

"For Cincinnati Bell to take the greatest advantage of emerging growth opportunities we must have in place a business structure that allows us to bring products and services to market at lightning speed," said Rick Ellenberger, CEO-elect of Cincinnati Bell Inc. "The new structure will stimulate innovation and place the decision-making closer to the customer so we can better anticipate and meet customers' needs."

Under the new structure, the businesses and business units will directly control the resources they need to serve specific market segments and will be fully accountable for financial performance.

The new businesses and their presidents are:

-- ZoomTown.com - Mike O'Brien, former senior vice president of

marketing, sales and customer service.

-- KSM Consulting/Cincinnati Bell Network Solutions (KSM/CBNS) -

Jeff Lackey, former general manager of KSM Consulting and

Cincinnati Bell Network Solutions (CBNS).

"ZoomTown.com combines the resources of ZoomTown(SM), the nation's first on-line, digital community powered by ADSL, and Fuse(R), Cincinnati Bell's Internet service provider, to create an Internet services growth company," said Ellenberger. "The new company gives Cincinnati Bell a flexible, fast-moving platform for creating the e-commerce and transactional applications that will keep Cincinnati Bell on the leading edge of the digital revolution."

Recognizing the growth opportunities within the network integration space, Ellenberger has combined the resources of KSM Consulting, a systems network integration and consulting firm recently acquired by Cincinnati Bell Telephone, and CBNS, a business unit of Cincinnati Bell Telephone focused on integrated data network solutions.

"Data is a driving force of growth in our industry today," said Ellenberger. "KSM/CBNS will become a significant part of our growth strategy and our out-of-territory expansion efforts."

In addition to these changes, Ellenberger also announced the appointment of Doug Myers as president of Cincinnati Bell Directory. Myers, formerly Cincinnati Bell Directory's vice president of sales and marketing, succeeds Jack Mueller, who is returning to Cincinnati Bell Telephone to lead an important business unit.

New Business Units Complete Restructuring

The new business units within Cincinnati Bell Telephone are Business Market, Residence Market, Access & Public Market and Operator and Directory Services.

Each business unit will have its own general manager in control of operations, finance, information technology, regulation, sales, marketing and customer service.

General managers are: Jack Mueller, Residence Market; Linda Frank, Access & Public Market; and Cori Rothenbach, Operator and Directory Services. The Business Market general manager has not been named.

Frank was vice president-Client Technical Operations. Rothenbach was vice president-Operator and Directory Services.

About Cincinnati Bell

Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CSN) is a full service, integrated communications company that provides competitive local communications as well as data, Internet, wireless, entertainment, directory and data networking services to customers in the Cincinnati, Ohio, metropolitan area and in many other Midwestern cities. Cincinnati Bell is on the World Wide Web at www.cinbellinc.com and at www.cincinnatibell.com.

ZoomTown is a service mark and Fuse is a registered trademark of Cincinnati Bell.