Is BellSouth still a company?

The AT&T/BellSouth merger is simply the latest indication of the irrelevance of antitrust in a rapidly changing global competitive environment . In telecommunications, the changes in competition have come from an explosion in technology and at least partial freedom from the suffocating embrace of government regulation.

On March 5, 2006, AT&T Inc. announced its historic agreement to acquire BellSouth Corp. After the closing of the acquisition, BellSouth became a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc . The acquisition was completed on December 29, 2006.

BellSouth Telecommunications ceased doing business under the BellSouth name on June 30, 2007 . It now does business under the following names: AT&T Alabama. AT&T Florida.

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