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The new company then acquired BellSouth for $85.8 billion on January 3, 2007, with FCC approval. [ 16 ] Bell Atlantic merged with NYNEX on August 18, 1997, in a $25.6 billion deal, retaining the name Bell Atlantic, [ 17 ] and then with non-Bell GTE on June 30, 2000, to create Verizon Communications in a $70 billion deal. [ 18 ]
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.
BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC is an operating company of AT&T that serves the southeastern United States. It consists of the former operations of Southern Bell and South Central Bell . BellSouth Telecommunications was a subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation which was acquired by AT&T Inc. on December 29, 2006.
He made the rash decision to quit his job as an executive at Atlanta-based tech company IQ Software, and his wife Jyoti quit her job as a systems analyst at telecommunications giant BellSouth.
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The company, as CenturyTel, had acquired some Wisconsin Bell lines from Ameritech in 1998. Qwest, a Denver-based fiber optics long-distance company, had taken over US West in 2000. [6] CenturyLink announced in April 2010 its intent to buy Qwest for US$10.6 billion. [7] The transaction was completed in April 2011.
The AT&T Wireless brand was retired by Cingular on April 26, 2005, six months after the close of the merger. This was per a pre-spinoff agreement with AT&T Corp. that stated that if AT&T Wireless was to be bought by a competitor, the rights to the name AT&T Wireless and the use of the AT&T name in wireless phone service would revert to AT&T Corp.