Cbeyond Schedules Third Quarter 2011 Earnings Conference Call for November 2, 2011

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of IT and communications services to small businesses, today announced its intent to release financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. The release will be issued after the market close on Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Following the announcement, a conference call led by Cbeyond Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Geiger and Chief Financial Officer Bob Fugate is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Details of the conference call are as follows:

Please plan to dial in or log on at least ten minutes prior to the designated start time so management can begin promptly.

The online replay will follow shortly after the call ends and will be archived for one year.

About Cbeyond

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading provider of IT and communications services to more than 60,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Recently named as the sixth fastest growing technology company by Forbes magazine, and added to Standard & Poor's Small Cap S&P 600 Index, 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 delivers these services over a 100 percent private all IP network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit http://www.cbeyond.net.

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