For the Bell Operating Company of AT&T that serves the southeastern United States, see BellSouth Telecommunications.
BellSouth, LLC
BellSouth Regional Headquarters in Nashville (circa 2003)
Trade name
AT&T South
Company type
Subsidiary
Traded as
NYSE: BLS
Industry
Telecommunications
Founded
1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Defunct
2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Fate
Acquired by AT&T Inc.
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Key people
F. Duane Ackerman, Chairman and CEO
Products
Telephone, Internet, Television
Number of employees
63,000
Parent
AT&T Corporation (1983) AT&T Inc.[1][2] (2006)
Subsidiaries
BellSouth Telecommunications
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).[3] The merger also consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and Yellowpages.com, both of which were joint ventures between BellSouth and AT&T.[4] 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.[4]
The company became known as BellSouth, LLC on June 26, 2015.[5]
BellSouth was the last of the Regional Bell Operating Companies to keep its original corporate name after the 1984 AT&T breakup, as well as the last one to retain the Bell logo as part of its main corporate identity.
BellSouth also operated in Latin America in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. BellSouth operated in New Zealand under the name of BellSouth New Zealand Limited from 1993 until 1998 when it was acquired by Vodafone to become Vodafone New Zealand.[6] It competed against Telecom New Zealand. Its operations in Australia were under the name of BellSouth Australia Pty Limited. All of Bellsouth's operations in Latin America were acquired by Telefonica in late 2004 for nearly $5.85 billion, and became Movistar.[7][8]
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