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BellSouth
BellSouth Corporation is a U.S. telecommunications company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984. It is also the only "Baby Bell" or Regional Bell Operating Company that still uses the Bell symbol in its logo.
BellSouth's territories under their Southern Bell and South Central Bell subsidaries, which have now been combined to operate under the corporate name BellSouth, includes telephone and DSL/Dial-Up Internet services in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee
BellSouth is realigning itself in two important areas, wireless and broadband. A 40% joint venture with SBC Communications in U.S. wireless telephone service Cingular provides 40% BellSouth revenue. Continued increase of broadband penetration, and applications, in the consumer market is a key strategy to the company. These activities are being funded in part by the sale of Latin America operations.
Management
Chairman and CEO: F. Duane Ackerman
BellSouth Competitors
External links
- BellSouth Corporation (Corporate Website)
- BellSouth Corporation (Consumers Website)
- BellSouth Chile (Website Presented in Spanish)
- BellSouth Colombia (Website Presented in Spanish)
- BellSouth Ecuador (Website Presented in Spanish)
- BellSouth Guatemala (Website Presented in Spanish)
- BellSouth Nicaragua (Website Presented in Spanish)
- BellSouth Panama (Website Presented in Spanish)
- BellSouth Perú (Website Presented in Spanish)
- Cingular Wireless
- Cellcom (Website Presented in Hebrew)
- Sonofon Denmark (Website Presented in Danish)
- Jitong Communications Ltd. (Website Presented in Chinese)
- Movicom Argentina (Website Presented in Spanish)
- Movicom Uruguay (Website Presented in Spanish)
- Telecel (Website Presented in Spanish)
- Third party links
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