BellSouth announced Monday that it would offer a same-day repair guarantee for its FastAccess Business DSL customers. Under the terms of the new guarantee, business customers who report trouble with their DSL connection by noon and accept the first repair appointment offered are guaranteed a same-day repair.

It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?

With a new service from Verizon Wireless, you will.

Telephone subscribers in northern Georgia now have less than three months to prepare for the introduction of the new 762 area code.

Dan Hesse, chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel, said the company would spin off its landline telephone business unit sometime in the second quarter of 2006.

BellSouth on Monday announced it would lower the price of its FastAccess DSL Xtreme service, which provides up to 3Mbps downstream speed and up to 384Kbps upstream speed, from $42.95 per month to $37.95 per month.

The merger between Verizon Communications Inc. and MCI, Inc. closed Friday, creating a new company with approximately $90 billion in annual revenues and 250,000 employees in some 150 countries.

RadioShack began offering wireless phones and service from Cingular Wireless on January 1 in its over 5,000 stores, transforming its stores literally overnight.