BellSouth Wholesale Business Gets New President - Brief Article

Cambridge Telcom Report, March 27, 2000

BellSouth has named Glen Estell president of BellSouth Interconnection Services, the company's wholesale telecommunications business responsible for more than $4 billion in annual revenue.

BellSouth Interconnection Services customers are communications service providers--sometimes termed wholesale customers--including interexchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, payphone service providers, independent telephone companies and wireless/PCS/paging service providers.

"Wholesale telecommunications is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing areas of BellSouth," said Dick Anderson, president of BellSouth Customer Markets. "Excluding switched access, BellSouth's wholesale revenues are growing at more than 20 percent annually. Glen Estell will provide the leadership and innovation required to keep BellSouth in the forefront of the U. S. wholesale telecom market."

"BellSouth Interconnection Services' mission is to provide a competitive advantage to its carrier customers through products, services and network capabilities," Estell said. "We intend to accomplish this mission by building long-term customer relationships, understanding customers' businesses and offering them flexible solutions to win with their end users. In turn, we benefit by keeping traffic on BellSouth's state-of-the-art network."

Estell comes to BellSouth Interconnection Services from BellSouth's wireless operations where he most recently was vice president and general manager for BellSouth Mobility in Georgia. Before joining BellSouth, he held several leadership positions in sales, marketing and operations with IBM.

BellSouth is a $25 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing and Internet and data services to 36 million customers in 20 countries worldwide. More information on BellSouth Interconnection Services is available on the Internet at www.interconnection.bellsouth.com.