It provides voice, broadband data, and e-commerce solutions.
The company operates in three segments: Communications, Domestic Wireless, and Advertising and Publishing.
The Communication segment provides telecommunications service in the southeastern United States.
It provides wireline communications services, including local exchange, network access, intra local access and transport area long distance services, and Internet services.
This segment also provides long distance services to residential and business customers; and wholesale long distance services primarily to wireless communications providers, smaller wireline telecommunications providers, and unaffiliated long distance providers.
The Domestic Wireless segment provides wireless services for individual, business, and governmental users.
It also offers multiband devices that enable its customers to access networks using both the cellular and PCS frequencies across the United States, as well as international networks worldwide.
The Advertising and Publishing segment publishes telephone directories in the United States.
It publishes approximately 500 directories and distributes approximately 63 million copies to residences, businesses, and government agencies.
This segment publishes alphabetical white page directories of business and residential telephone subscribers in its wireline telecommunications markets, and sells classified directories under ‘Real Yellow Pages’ trademark.
It also provides telephone directory, and electronic sales and publishing services for nonaffiliated telephone companies.
BellSouth Corporation was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
