BellSouth Corp., the No. 3 U.S. regional phone company, Thursday said first-quarter profit including its Cingular Wireless joint venture rose 20 percent, boosted by cellphone and high-speed Internet ...

CHICAGO--A decade-old bet on fiber-optic cables could end up paying big dividends for BellSouth. While other local telephone carriers waited until regulatory issues were ironed out before deploying ...

BellSouth, which provides local phone services in nine southeastern states, said it's considering buying Qwest Communications International or boosting its stake in the long distance phone company.

BellSouth Corp.'s profit increased about 25 percent in 2004, and it rewarded its senior executives with slightly decreased bonuses. According to a proxy filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

Yahoo Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are joining forces to sell high-speed Internet access, the latest step in a mating dance that has now united the owner of the Web’s most popular destination with the ...

BellSouth today released results that revealed ever-expanding problems in its core business, problems that took a bite out of its fourth-quarter profit and whacked the stocks of all the Baby Bells.

Company's execs may not thump their chests about it, but analysts say the local phone carrier is well-positioned. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone ...