ime off to care for a new child. Visit Vault at www.vault.com for insider company profiles, expert advice, VAULT CAREER career message boards, expert resume reviews, the Vault Job Board and more. LIBRARY BellSouth Corp. 1155 Peachtree Street, NE THE STATS Atlanta, GA 30309-3610 Phone: (404) 249-2000 Employer Type: Public Company Fax: (404) 249-2071 Stock Symbol: BLS www.bellsouth.com Stock Exchange: NYSE Chairman, President, and CEO: F. Duane Ackerman LOCATION 2004 Employees: 63,000 Atlanta, GA (HQ) 2002 Revenue ($ mil.): $20,300 DEPARTMENTS KEY COMPETITORS Marketing ALLTEL Sales Telecommunications ITC^DeltaCom EMPLOYMENT CONTACT www.bellsouth.com/employment/ car_hom.htm VAULT CAREER LIBRARY 2005 Vault Inc. Vault Guide to the Top Telecom Employers BellSouth Corp. THE SCOOP One of the Baby Bells BellSouth is the third largest of the original Baby Bells (after Verizon and SBC). The Atlanta-based company offers voice, data and Internet services to almost 46 million customers in the U.S. and 13 foreign countries, mostly in Latin America and Europe. It also owns 40 percent of Cingular Wireless, the second largest wireless company in the U.S. The company offers DSL high-speed Internet access and provides online and directory advertising services. A history lesson BellSouth can trace its roots back to 1878, when Theodore Vail, general manager of National Bell, hired James Merrill Ormes to market Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary telephone throughout the South. In those early days, competition was surprisingly fierce, especially from rival Western Union. Ormes, however, managed to bring Western Union to the negotiating table, and Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph was born. Through a steady program of buy-outs and mergers, the company managed to extend its market dominance throughout the South. In 1968, it divided into two separate units: Southern Bell and South Central Bell. Fourteen years later, when antitrust regulators split AT&T into seven regional holding companies or "Baby Bells," the two companies reunited