Communications

Lexington County has access to a communication backbone and service provided by the country’s best telecommunications companies.

BellSouth

www.bellsouth.net

Serves: Batesburg-Leesville, Chapin, Columbia, Springdale, South Congaree, Pine Ridge, Lexington, Little Mountain, Cayce, Gaston, Irmo, Swansea, and West Columbia.

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth has joint control and 40 percent ownership of Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless voice and data provider.

Backed by award winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers®, residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial-up and high-speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular® Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers online and directory advertising through BellSouth® RealPages.com® and The Real Yellow Pages®.

BellSouth maintains 20.4 million access lines in service, nearly 7.0 million long-distance customers and more than 2.4 million DSL subscribers. The company currently employs approximately 63,000 employees and generated approximately $28 billion in revenue in 2004.

With the October 26 acquisition of AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serves 52.3 million voice and data customers. Cingular has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVERSM network - and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover®, the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes.

From residential to small and large business solutions, BellSouth can provide all of your company’s telecommunications needs including:

• Data Services
• Equipment Services
• Internet Services
• Long Distance
• Voice Services
• Wireless

Contact information for BellSouth:

BellSouth
PO Box 33009
Charlotte, NC 28243
Tel: (803) 780-2355
www.bellsouth.com

www.alltel.com

Serves: Gilbert, Lexington area, and West Columbia

With more than 50 years of experience, Alltel Communications  is one of the nation's largest and most dependable providers of communications products and services. Alltel has developed relationships with hundreds of equipment manufacturers worldwide, allowing us to offer our customers thousands of high-demand items through a nationwide network of regional distribution and communications products centers.

Through Alltel Communication Products, the company offers flexible, competitively-priced leasing programs, and have developed product resources and expert technical support for the ever-expanding wireless industry.  Alltel can provide your business or industry with a full-range of communications products and services.

Contact information for Alltel:

Alltel Communications
Tel: (800) 843-9214
www.alltel.com

Pond Branch Telephone Company

www.pbtcomm.net

Serves: Batesburg-Leesville, Pelion, Pond Branch, Gaston, Summit, North and Swansea

PBT offers business customers a wide array of services. From the latest business telephone systems to ATM and Frame Relay switching capabilities, PBT can provide services tailored to fit any business. The company also offer special business plans for paging, Internet access, and long distance.

PBT serves over 650 square miles in portions of Aiken, Edgefield, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg and Saluda counties. PBT's service area is divided into six telephone exchanges.

Contact information for Pond Branch Telephone Company: