BellSouth and Granite Telecommunications sign long-term commercial agreement.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-13 October 2004-BELLSOUTH: BellSouth and Granite Telecommunications sign long-term commercial agreement(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10132004 ATLANTA - BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) and Granite Telecommunications today announced the signing of a long-term commercial agreement for the provisioning of wholesale local phone services throughout the nine-state BellSouth region in the Southeast.

With the successful completion of this negotiation, BellSouth has now reached 22 commercial agreements with its wholesale customers. "The negotiations with our wholesale customers continue to be successful as we jointly recognize the opportunity to replace unproductive regulatory battles with free market economics," said Keith Cowan, president of...