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BellSouth Long Distance, Inc. and the Communications Workers of America Reach Working Agreement ATLANTA, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- BellSouth Long Distance, Inc. and the Communications Workers of America today announced they have agreed to extend their current working agreement, which was to expire March 19, 2005. The extension will be from March 19, 2005 until December 31, 2005. In addition to extending the terms of the current contract, the following items were included in the agreement: - Wages will be increased by 1 percent, effective March 20, 2005. - All employees will receive a lump sum payment equal to 4 percent of their annualized basic pay. - Pension bands will be increased 3 percent, effective July 1, 2005. About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS) is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a parent company 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(R), 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(R) 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(R) RealPages.com(R) and The Real Yellow Pages(R). More information about BellSouth can be found at http://www.bellsouth.com/ . About The Communications Workers of America The Communications Workers of America represents more than 700,000 workers in media and information technology, telecommunications, printing and publishing, public employment, health care, higher education, airlines and manufacturing. DATASOURCE: BellSouth Corporation; Communications Workers of America CONTACT: Brent Fowler of BellSouth, +1-404-249-2839, or ; or Jeff Miller, , or Candice Johnson, , both of Communications Workers of America, +1-202-434-1168 Web site: http://www.bellsouth.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/095650.html

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