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BellSouth Statement on Cost Recovery

ATLANTA, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, BellSouth announced that it is immediately eliminating a fee assessed on its DSL Internet services. As described on BellSouth's website, the broadband fee was designed to recover a number of costs remaining from previous regulatory obligations and other network expenses that increase the cost of the Internet services we provide to consumers. Since the FCC eliminated the continuing applicability of many of these regulations, BellSouth has been able to provide a greater variety of Internet services to consumers, to which consumers have responded enthusiastically, and has signed over 300 contracts to provide independent Internet service providers with wholesale DSL services.

The vast majority of BellSouth's DSL Internet service customers will see this change on their bills within a week, although it will take up to six weeks to implement this change for all of BellSouth's DSL Internet service customers. Any payments attributable to this fee will be credited back to August 16, 2006.

SOURCE: BellSouth Corporation

CONTACT: Joe Chandler, Director - Media Relations of BellSouth
Corporation, +1-404-829-8700, or joe.chandler@bellsouth.com

Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/

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