Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE: CBB) today announced that it has amended its
existing corporate credit agreement to, among other things, incorporate
a new $540 million Term Loan B Facility due September 2020 (“the
Facility”). The Facility, which was upsized from the $400 million in
aggregate principal amount initially sought by the company, is
guaranteed by certain subsidiaries of Cincinnati Bell Inc. and includes
customary terms and covenants. Pricing on the Facility was set at LIBOR
plus 300 basis points (with a LIBOR floor of 1.00%) and 0.75% of
original issue discount.
The company intends to use the net proceeds of the Facility, anticipated
to be approximately $530 million after the original issue discount, fees
and expenses, to redeem all of the $500 million of outstanding 8.25%
Senior Notes due 2017 and to pay the associated redemption premium and
accrued and unpaid interest.
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About Cincinnati Bell Inc.
With headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB)
provides integrated communications solutions - including local and long
distance voice, data, high-speed internet, entertainment and wireless
services - that keep residential and business customers in Greater
Cincinnati and Dayton connected with each other and with the world. In
addition, enterprise customers across the United States rely on CBTS, a
wholly-owned subsidiary, for efficient, scalable office communications
systems and end-to-end IT solutions. Cincinnati Bell also is the
majority owner of CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), which provides best-in-class
data center colocation services to enterprise customers through its
facilities with fully redundant power and cooling solutions that are
currently located in the Midwest, Texas, Arizona, London and Singapore.
For more information, please visit www.cincinnatibell.com.
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