BellSouth, LLC 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 Regional Headquarters in Nashville (circa 2003)
AT&T Midtown Center, Atlanta, AT&T Southeast headquarters.
AT&T City Center, Birmingham, Alabama, South Central Bell's former Headquarters.
Regional Bell Operating Company
A Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) was a corporate entity created as result of the antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice against the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1974 and settled in the Modification of Final Judgment on January 8, 1982.
A Verizon payphone with the Bell logo