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BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=BLS)) 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, A 50% joint venture with SBC Communications in U.S. wireless telephone service Cingular. BellSouth has also made itself known outside of the U.S. market though land-based and wireless telephone companies located in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Guatemala, Israel, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Management
Chairman and CEO: F. Duane Ackerman
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