BellSouth Wholesale Business Gets New President.Business Editors & Telecommunications Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 Glen Estell Charged with Growing Interconnection in·ter·con·nect v. in·ter·con·nect·ed, in·ter·con·nect·ing, in·ter·con·nects v.intr. To be connected with each other: The two buildings interconnect. v.tr. Services 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 See IXC. , competitive local exchange carriers, payphone payphone Noun a coin-operated telephone payphone pay n → Münztelefon nt; (card phone) → Kartentelefon nt 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
Richard Paul Anderson (born February 10, 1946 in Midland, Michigan) is a former American Football defensive back for the American Football League's and NFL's Miami , 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 BellSouth Mobility, LLC headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, was a BellSouth subsidiary. BellSouth Mobility operated wireless networks using many different wireless communication standards. The most widely used of these technologies is called Digital AMPS, or D-AMPS. in Georgia. Before joining BellSouth, he held several leadership positions in sales, marketing and operations with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . BellSouth is a $25 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications, wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , 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. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032000/bb10 |
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