Cincinnati Bell Wireless LLC ("CBW") is an Ohio limited liability company and a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell Inc., the Cincinnati-based telecom that took the "altafiber" brand in 2022. CBW was formed around the company's February 1998 wireless venture, in which Cincinnati Bell acquired an 80% interest in AT&T Wireless's Cincinnati–Dayton PCS network; it was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is today an indirect subsidiary of a private company, following Macquarie Asset Management's $2.9 billion take-private of Cincinnati Bell in September 2021. Parent-level figures reported publicly: roughly $1.8 billion in revenue (2023) and about 1,400–2,000 local employees; no employee or revenue data specific to CBW is available.
Operations. CBW operated a regional wireless carrier business in Greater Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, plus parts of northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana, running a GSM/GPRS network with 3G UMTS and later 4G HSPA+ overlay, and offering postpaid plans, prepaid service under the "i-wireless" brand, handsets and accessories through company stores and third-party retailers, and roaming/collocation services. It served roughly 459,000 subscribers as of year-end 2011. The company sold substantially all of its towers (2009), most out-of-territory spectrum licenses (2009), and announced the sale of its wireless spectrum and assets to Verizon Wireless in April 2014; CBW discontinued wireless service on February 28, 2015. It is therefore a legacy operating entity, not a patent-assertion vehicle.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows a single case, with CBW as a defendant and none as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being sued, not an NPE. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Centennial Cellular Operating Co. et al. (D. Mass., filed May 20, 2005) was an individual-inventor-started patent suit over prepaid wireless calling technology; CBW was one of numerous carrier defendants named alongside Centennial Cellular and Boston Communications Group, reflecting the industry-wide prepaid-platform dispute rather than a CBW-specific claim.