BellSouth

BellSouth Telecommunications is a service provider which serves eight states in the South plus one Midwest state. It formed as a result of the 1984 Bell System breakup. BellSouth operates in nine states: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana. The telephone companies before BellSouth were South Central Bell and Southern Bell in these nine states. BellSouth is currently under the ownership of AT&T.