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Bellsouth Telecommunications Inc company history timeline

1984

To promote these technologies to multi-tenant business offices, BellSouth Enterprises, Inc. formed BellSouth Systems Technology in 1984.

Also in 1984 South Central began offering WatchAlert, a system that allowed a security-alarm signal to be transmitted even if a phone line was busy or cut.

1985

BellSouth earned $1.42 billion in 1985.

1986

By 1986 the national Yellow Pages market had reached $6.8 billion, and BellSouth was expanding its Yellow Pages services out of its area of operation in search of greater profits.

1987

BellSouth won a $55 million telephone-switch contract from the United States government in late 1987.

1988

By 1988 BellSouth was the fastest growing regional holding company, with an impressive use of new technologies and services and the addition of 600,000 new telephone lines to the network every year.

1990

By 1990 BellSouth had invested $550 million in overseas operations and was the only regional offering mobile communications on four continents.

1992

However, a federal court ruling in February 1992 allowed the Bell offspring to begin offering new services, such as special fax retrieval systems and interactive video and data networks for businesses.

1995

The company also built a trial interactive multimedia network in 1995, limiting it to the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee.

BellSouth Telecommunications continued to do business as Southern Bell and South Central Bell until 1995, when BellSouth was adopted as the sole customer-facing brand.

1998

By May 1998, there were only four Baby Bells left, and BellSouth, which had long been the biggest of the regional phone companies, was now the second smallest.

Net income rose as well, and the company had record cash flow from operations in 1998.

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