Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Debt Instruments [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments

The Company’s debt consists of the following:

	December 31,
(dollars in millions)	2012			2011
Current portion of long-term debt:
Capital lease obligations and other debt	$	13.4		$	13.0
Current portion of long-term debt	13.4			13.0
Long-term debt, less current portion:
Receivables facility	52.0			—
7% Senior Notes due 2015	—			250.4
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	683.9			775.0
CyrusOne 6 3/8% Senior Notes due 2022	525.0			—
7 1/4% Senior Notes due 2023	40.0			40.0
Various Cincinnati Bell Telephone notes	134.5			207.5
Capital lease obligations and other debt	123.1			131.4
	2,683.5			2,529.3
Net unamortized discount	(7.5		)	(8.7		)
Long-term debt, less current portion	2,676.0			2,520.6
Total debt	$	2,689.4		$	2,533.6

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

The following table summarizes our annual minimum payments for these financing arrangements for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2012, and thereafter:

(dollars in millions)
2013	$	6.0
2014	6.4
2015	6.6
2016	6.7
2017	6.9
Thereafter	42.3
Total	$	74.9

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, 2012, and thereafter:

				Capital		Total
(dollars in millions)	Debt			Leases		Debt
Year ended December 31,
2013	$	1.2		$	12.2	$	13.4
2014	52.1			9.7		61.8
2015	0.1			8.5		8.6
2016	—			9.0		9.0
2017	500.0			5.2		505.2
Thereafter	2,008.4			90.5		2,098.9
	2,561.8			135.1		2,696.9
Net unamortized discount	(7.5		)	—		(7.5		)
Total debt	$	2,554.3		$	135.1	$	2,689.4