BellSouth, LLC was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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BellSouth, LLC was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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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.
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BellSouth formed a shared services company, BellSouth Services, to provide centralized functions such as engineering and information technology to Southern Bell and South Central Bell.
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However, BellSouth continued using the Southern Bell name in the eastern portion of its territory and the South Central Bell name in the western portion until 1998, when it adopted BellSouth as the sole customer-facing brand.
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BellSouth Mobility was based in Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama.
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Toward its end, BellSouth realigned itself in two important areas, wireless and broadband.
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BellSouth became the first "Baby Bell" that did not operate pay telephones.
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BellSouth's main operating units at its end were the Communications Group, Domestic Wireless, and Advertising and Publishing.
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BellSouth licensed its trademark to US Electronics, which produced telephones under the BellSouth brand.
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In 2006, USA Today published an article which erroneously claimed that three of the largest United States carriers, including BellSouth, had been supplying calling records to the National Security Agency for all international and domestic calls.
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BellSouth said that internal review concluded that the company did not contract with the NSA or turn over calling records.
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