UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report: April 9, 2021


CINCINNATI BELL INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

221 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(Address of Principal Executive Office)

(513) 397-9900

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Act. ☐

ITEM 1.01– ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT

On April 9, 2021 (the “Closing Date”), Cincinnati Bell Inc. (the “Company”), together with certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries, made amendments to the Company’s accounts receivables securitization program (the “Accounts Receivables Securitization Program”).  In connection therewith, the Company entered into (i) the Third Amendment to the Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among Cincinnati Bell Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned special purpose subsidiary of the Company (“CB Funding”) as Seller, the Company as Servicer, and PNC Bank, National Association as Buyer (the “Third RPA Amendment”) and (ii) the Fourth Amendment to the Receivables Financing Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Fourth RFA Amendment” and, together with the Third RPA Amendment, the “Amendments”), by and among CB Funding and Cincinnati Bell Funding Canada Ltd., an Ontario corporation, as Borrowers, the Company and OnX Enterprise Solutions Ltd., an Ontario corporation, as Servicers, the various Lenders, Letter of Credit Participants and Group Agents from time to time party thereto, PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrator and Letter of Credit Bank, and PNC Capital Markets, as Structuring Agent.  The Amendments amend the Accounts Receivables Securitization Program to, among other things: (i)add PNC Bank Canada Branch as issuer of Letters of Credit and Lender,  (ii)  make changes to the benchmark mechanisms to account for the potential elimination of LIBOR as a benchmark, (iii) increase the maximum size of the borrowing facility from $200 million to $215 million, and (iv) make various technical adjustments to the borrowing base calculations.

The foregoing descriptions of each of the Third RPA Amendment, and the Fourth RFA Amendment do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of each, copies of which are filed as Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 2.03– CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT

The disclosure set forth under Item 1.01 above is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.01– FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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