Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Debt Instruments [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments

The Company’s debt consists of the following:

	December 31,
(dollars in millions)	2011			2010
Current portion of long-term debt:
Capital lease obligations and other debt	$	13.0		$	16.5
Current portion of long-term debt	13.0			16.5
Long-term debt, less current portion:
7% Senior Notes due 2015*	250.4			251.4
8 1/4% Senior Notes due 2017	500.0			500.0
8 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018	625.0			625.0
8 3/8% Senior Notes due 2020	775.0			775.0
7 1/4% Senior Notes due 2023	40.0			40.0
Various Cincinnati Bell Telephone notes	207.5			207.5
Capital lease obligations and other debt	131.4			118.5
	2,529.3			2,517.4
Net unamortized discount	(8.7		)	(10.3		)
Long-term debt, less current portion	2,520.6			2,507.1
Total debt	$	2,533.6		$	2,523.6

 * The face amount of these notes has been adjusted for the unamortized called amounts received on terminated interest rate swaps.

Future minimum payments for the next five years of financincing arrangements [Table Text Block]

minimum payments for these financing arrangements for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2011, and thereafter:

(dollars in millions)
2012	$	3.8
2013	5.6
2014	6.4
2015	6.5
2016	6.6
Thereafter	48.7
Total	$	77.6

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

The following table summarizes our annual principal maturities of debt and capital leases for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2011, and thereafter:

				Capital		Total
(dollars in millions)	Debt			Leases		Debt
Year ended December 31,
2012	$	1.8		$	11.2	$	13.0
2013	1.4			17.5		18.9
2014	0.1			6.2		6.3
2015	247.7			5.5		253.2
2016	—			6.0		6.0
Thereafter	2,147.5			94.5		2,242.0
	2,398.5			140.9		2,539.4
Net unamortized call amounts on terminated rate swaps	2.9			—		2.9
Net unamortized discount	(8.7		)	—		(8.7		)
Total debt	$	2,392.7		$	140.9	$	2,533.6