Products and Services
Southern Telecom provides long-haul and metro dark fiber connecting Atlanta with other smaller cities throughout the Southeast. Call on us for:

• dark fiber
• right-of-way
• conduit
• inner liners
• colocation
  • data storage, data back-up, data recovery
  • disaster recovery
  • long-haul/metro optical cross connects
• construction services
• maintenance services

The Network
Southern Telecom has 1,200 route miles installed in the Southeast. We also construct spurs off this route to support many of the nearby tier II-plus cities. We provide HVAC, power, and other custom energy solutions for optronics at our operation hubs and in-line amplification sites (ILAs) on the long-haul routes and points of presence (POPs) in the metro areas supporting the metro fiber rings.

• Georgia To Jacksonville
  Southern Telecom long-haul routes connect Atlanta central business district fiber ring, the Macon business district and the Jacksonville business district fiber ring, all of which connect to many of the premier telecom addresses.
• Florida
  Southern Telecom also has dark fiber in Florida that reaches from Jacksonville through St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, West Palm, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami and up the Florida West Coast through Ft. Myers and Tampa to Orlando and back to Daytona Beach. This route passes through six percent of the U.S. population and offers connectivity to international traffic via other carriers' Latin American submarine cables.
• Alabama
  Southern Telecom provides fiber optic connectivity between Montgomery and just outside Birmingham.

Businesses Served

• Telecommunication providers
  • CLECs
  • ILECs
  • BLECs
  • ISPs
  • ASPs
  • IXCs
• Carrier carriers
• Enterprise private networks
• Enterprise data storage, back-up, and disaster recovery service providers

Business Details
Southern Telecom is certified in Alabama, Florida and Georgia and also at the federal level. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Company, Southern Telecom was formed in 1997 as an Exempt Telecommunications Company (ETC) pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a super-regional energy company with more than 40,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Southeast. It is one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States.

Wired or wireless? Southern Telecom is the wireline, fiber optic telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company. SouthernLINC Wireless is Southern Company’s wireless communications service offering businesses two-way radio, phone service, paging and Internet access in one handset.