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

Cbeyond CEO, Vice President of Marketing to Discuss the Role of Applications and
Managed Services in Small Businesses at COMPTEL PLUS
ATLANTA & DALLAS--(Business Wire)--
Cbeyond, 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® 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, 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
michelle.gullia@cbeyond.net

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