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Monday, March 2, 2009

Cbeyond Continues Its Growth, Delivering an Average of Seven Managed Services Applications Per Small Business Customer

ATLANTA & DALLAS, Mar 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cbeyond(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading IP-based communications and IT services provider for small business, announces its continued growth in application penetration, surpassing seven applications for every customer served.

Cbeyond supports the technology needs of entrepreneurs across diverse industries by making more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications available to its customer base of 42,000+ small businesses. The company's BeyondVoice^(R) package of core communications services, including local and long-distance voice, and broadband Internet, provides small businesses with the essential services they need to keep their business connected to their customers.

"Small businesses are increasingly demanding the same communications and IT services larger enterprises are using to succeed," said Jim Geiger, Cbeyond CEO and chairman. "Business-grade voice, broadband and mobile services remain critical components of a small business communications package. Our customers are increasingly adopting our advanced IT services and applications, including email, Web hosting and mobile workforce manager."

Geiger and Steve Zimba, Cbeyond's vice president of marketing, will address the evolution of small business communications and IT services at the COMPTEL PLUS Spring 2009 Convention & Expo, March 3-4, 2009.

Geiger will participate in the panel Convergence: Winning with Wireless in a Wired World. The panel, led by Jim Patterson, president of Sprint Wholesales Services, will discuss how wireline and wireless convergence are critical to the long-term strategy and livelihood of the wireline industry (March 3 at 4:00 p.m. CST). Zimba will sit on the panel discussion Growing Importance of Managed Value-Added Services. The group will review the state of the managed services industry as traditional services are increasingly commoditized and more companies are delivering managed services (March 4 at 9:00 a.m. CST).

For more information about Cbeyond and its portfolio of productivity-enhancing solutions for small businesses, call 1-888-225-0984 or visit http://www.cbeyond.net/services.

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 42,000 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 http://www.cbeyond.net/.

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Cbeyond, Inc.
Michelle Gullia, 678-370-2437
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