BellSouth
Sign in to saveBellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding 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 & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.
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- BellSouth Regional Headquarters in Nashville (circa 2003)
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- BellSouth, LLC
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- AT&T South
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- Subsidiary
- Company.location
- Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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- Telecommunications
- Company.fate
- Acquired by AT&T Inc., and merged with Pacific Telesis
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- F. Duane Ackerman (chairman and CEO)
- Company.products
- Telephone, Internet, Television
- Company.num_employees
- 63,000
- Company.parent
- AT&T Corporation (1983)AT&T Inc. (2006)
- Company.subsid
- BellSouth Telecommunications
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BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding 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 & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.
In a merger announced on March 5, 2006, and executed on December 29, 2006, AT&T Inc. (originally SBC Communications) acquired BellSouth for approximately $86 billion (1.325 shares of AT&T for each share of BellSouth). The merger also consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and Yellowpages.com, both of which were joint ventures between BellSouth and AT&T. With the merger completed, wireless services previously offered by Cingular Wireless were then offered under the AT&T name, and BellSouth Telecommunications (a subsidiary of a Bell Operating Company) began doing business as AT&T Southeast.
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