Cbeyond®, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading IP-based managed services provider to small businesses, ranked 16th on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's list of Georgia's top 100 public companies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ranked the list of the top 100 public companies based on five weighted variables: annual revenue, year-over-year revenue change, return on equity, annual change in profit margin in fiscal 2006 and total return on investment for calendar 2006. Cbeyond's stock price grew by more than 196 percent in 2006 placing it second among all Georgia public companies for the return-on-investment measure.

Cbeyond's BeyondVoice? offering is an integrated package of IP-based applications including local and long distance voice, broadband Internet and mobile services delivered on one bill. Cbeyond customers can also tailor a plan to suit their needs, choosing from more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications such as BlackBerry®, Web hosting, fax-to-email and data backup. Cbeyond currently serves more than 29,000 small businesses and offers its services in eight cities throughout the United States.

?We experienced great success in 2006 due in large part to the continued adoption of IP-based business solutions,? said Jim Geiger, chairman and CEO of Cbeyond. ?When we started Cbeyond in 1999, we expected the small business community would embrace affordable, IP-based solutions; today we are seeing that expectation come to reality.?

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 29,000 small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles and San Diego. Cbeyond offers more than 20 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 www.cbeyond.net.

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Michelle Tank, 678-370-2437
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