Dividend Declaration

Bellsouth Corp
28 February 2005

For Immediate Release

February 28, 2005

BellSouth Board of Directors Declares 85th Quarterly Dividend

ATLANTA - The board of directors of BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS) today
declared a regular quarterly dividend of 27 cents per common share. The
first-quarter dividend is payable May 2, 2005 to shareholders of record as of
the close of business on April 14, 2005.

BellSouth has approximately 1.8 billion shares outstanding in about 700,000
registered shareholder accounts. This is the 85th consecutive quarterly dividend
declared by BellSouth.

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For more information contact:
Jeff Battcher, BellSouth
[e-mail]
[phone]

About BellSouth Corporation

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in
Atlanta, GA and a 40 percent owner 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 http://www.bellsouth.com.




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