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Business Wire, Dec 16, 1999

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1999--

Exclusive Agreement with Marconi Communications Enhances

Commitment to High-Speed, Fiber-Based

Network Facilities

BellSouth today announced an agreemth will deploy Marconi's next-generation, "deep fiber" technology into its fiber optic distribution network. The Marconi equipment will allow the delivery of ATM-based brive high-speed, fiber optic-based technology dequipment delivering voice, video and high-speetomers' demand for today's latest technology, it's another step in building an infrastructure that will acco. Integrated fiber enables BellSouth to delivera, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Orlando. Programming is provided by americast(R), a BellSouth partnership wternet. With 45,000 employees worldwide and sales in over 100 countries, it is headquartered in London and lions, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to nearly 36 million customers in 20 countries worldwide. In the U. S., BellSouth provides telecommunications services in nine Southeastern states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. With its headquarters in Atlanta, BellSouth serves more than 24 million local telephone lines and provides local exchange and intraLATA long distance service over one of the most modern telecommunications networks in the world.