BELLSOUTH POSTS STRONG NUMBERS AS IT PREPARES FOR MERGER

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BellSouth announced a strong financial quarter Tues., giving investors 揳nother reason to like?AT&T, said UBS analyst John Hodulik. Better-than-expected wireline margins make the company a 揵uy,?Hodulik said, as the company gears up for what will likely be its last quarter independent of AT&T. The carrier enjoyed another strong performance from Cingular Wireless, which will shave its margins even further once its 2 owners are consolidated. The 搊nly disappointing?part of BellSouth's report was the small number of DSL lines sold, said analyst Jeff Kagan, who added that AT&T's highly flexible pricing strategy should easily fix the problem.