| Type | Private (Subsidiary of BellSouth) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Key people | David Scobey, President |
| Products | POTS, DSL |
| Parent | AT&T Co. (1983) BellSouth (1984-2006) AT&T Inc. (2006-present) |
| Website | www.bellsouth.com |
BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC is the Bell Operating Company of AT&T that serves the southeastern United States. It absorbed the operations of South Central Bell in 1992.
BellSouth Telecommunications was previously a holding of BellSouth Corporation but was acquired by AT&T Inc on December 29, 2006. BellSouth Telecommunications/AT&T Southeast regional headquarters are located in the AT&T Midtown Center building in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth Corporation's headquarters were located in the Campanile building in Atlanta.
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Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company was the Bell Operating Company serving the states of Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina prior to the divestiture. Southern Bell began 1879 as The Atlanta Telephonic Exchange and was based in Atlanta. It changed its name to Southern Bell[1]. Southern Bell also operated in Charleston and other parts of West Virginia from 1883 until 1917, when The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia took over operations.[2]
On December 20, 1967 Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company formed South Central Bell Telephone Company to operate in five of its nine states (Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee). A similar arrangement occurred in 1961 when Pacific Northwest Bell was formed from Pacific Telephone.
Southern Bell, originally incorporated in New York, was reincorporated in Georgia in 1983.[3]
Southern Bell was headquartered in (what is now) the AT&T Midtown Center building in Atlanta, Georgia.
South Central Bell Telephone Company was the name of the Bell System's operations in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. South Central Bell was created in July 1968 when the Bell telephone operations in those states were split off from Southern Bell, similar to how Pacific Northwest Bell split off from Pacific Telephone & Telegraph around the same time period.
South Central Bell was headquartered in (what is now) the AT&T City Center building in Birmingham, Alabama.
BellSouth Services, Inc. was the name of the shared service company formed to provide common functions such as engineering and information technology across the nine state Southern Bell and South Central Bell operating region.
The division was headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama in what is now the AT&T Colonnade North and South buildings.
In 1984, when AT&T divested the Baby Bells, Southern Bell and South Central Bell were transferred to a new Regional Bell Operating Company. Initially, they continued to operate as separate companies, with BellSouth effectively the holding company for both and for BellSouth Services.
On January 1, 1992, BellSouth merged South Central Bell and BellSouth Services into Southern Bell, creating a single operating company which was renamed BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., one year after U S WEST had done the same by creating U S WEST Communications. The merger reconstituted Southern Bell before the South Central Bell split-off. BellSouth Telecommunications continued to do business as Southern Bell and South Central Bell until 1995, when corporate name BellSouth was used.
BellSouth spun off its cellular telephone enterprise, BellSouth Mobility, in 2000, and merged it with the cellular services of SBC Communications (former Southwestern Bell) to create Cingular Wireless. BellSouth owned a 40% stake in the joint venture.
On March 5, 2006, AT&T (SBC after acquiring the original AT&T) announced its intentions to acquire BellSouth Corporation, and on December 29, 2006 BellSouth Telecommunications became an operating company of AT&T under the name AT&T-Southeast.[4] The merger also consolidated the ownership of Cingular Wireless, which became AT&T Mobility.
BellSouth Telecommunications ceased doing business under the BellSouth name on June 30, 2007.
On July 1, 2011, BellSouth Telecommunications was converted into a limited liability company, becoming known as BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC.
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