BLS and AT&T sign agreement

Bellsouth Corp
23 March 2005






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                BellSouth and AT&T sign commercial agreement

  BellSouth has more than 100 commercial agreements with wholesale customers


ATLANTA  - March 23, 2005 - BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) today announced the signing of
a long-term commercial agreement with AT&T for the provisioning of wholesale
local phone services throughout the nine-state BellSouth region in the
Southeast. This agreement enables AT&T to continue serving its existing local
customers in the BellSouth region.

With the successful completion of negotiations with AT&T, BellSouth now has more
than 100 commercial agreements with wholesale customers.

"While BellSouth has been providing AT&T with wholesale services for several
years, we are now entering a new commercial relationship," said Rex Adams,
president of BellSouth Interconnection Services. "We look forward to offering AT
&T our world-class wholesale services at commercially negotiated rates."





About BellSouth Corporation

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in
Atlanta, Ga., and a parent company of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest
wireless voice and data provider.

Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most
comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the
market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers
can bundle their local and long distance service with dial-up and high speed DSL
Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For
businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice
and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory
advertising through BellSouth(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R).

More information about BellSouth can be found at www.bellsouth.com.



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