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MIAMI, Oct 15, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cbeyond(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading IP-based managed services provider to small businesses, today announced it has expanded services into its 11th market, the South Florida metropolitan area, which includes Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Miramar, Hollywood, and BocaRaton.
"With South Florida's large entrepreneurial community, we are excited to grow our presence and deliver services that will benefit the local small business community," said Jim Geiger, chairman and CEO of Cbeyond. "We pride ourselves in providing productivity-enhancing communications solutions that help small businesses successfully run their companies, especially within a challenging economy."
Cbeyond offers small businesses in South Florida "big business" communications tools by bundling packages of high speed Internet, local and long distance phone and mobile services, plus productivity-enhancing applications such as Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Secure Desktop and virtual private networking. In addition to serving South Florida, Cbeyond offers services to more than 38,500 small business customers across the United States.
"We are very pleased to have Cbeyond in South Florida," said Bob Swindell, senior vice-president- business development of The Broward Alliance, which serves as Broward County's official economic development partnership. "Their business model of helping South Florida-based entrepreneurs, and those in other locations, increase efficiency and productivity is the kind of company we work to attract to our region. Their focus on small businesses, which represent a large portion of companies in South Florida, will be an important addition to our economic base."
Cbeyond has opened its office in the City of Miramar and anticipates creating approximately 80 to 100 jobs to the local area.
"We are very proud to offer local job opportunities to the residents of South Florida," said Geiger. "We appreciate the assistance that Broward County, the Broward Alliance, and the City of Miramar have provided, and look forward to a continued partnership."
In celebration of its expansion to South Florida and in an effort to develop deep relationships with the communities it serves, Cbeyond will host a ribbon cutting ceremony and breakfast mixer with several local business and community leaders Wednesday, October 15, 2008. During the event, Cbeyond will present a donation to the Miramar Cultural Trust to benefit the Miramar Cultural Center/Arts Park.
Those interested in local employment opportunities with Cbeyond should visit http://www.cbeyond.net/cbeyond/cbeyond-careers.htm.
For more information about Cbeyond and its small business communications services, visit www.cbeyond.net.
About Cbeyond
Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 38,500 small businesses throughout the United States. Cbeyond offers more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry(R), broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net.
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SOURCE: Cbeyond, Inc.
Cbeyond, Inc. Michelle Tank, 678-370-2437 michelle.tank@cbeyond.net
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