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SouthernLINC Wireless Presents Movies Under the Stars
Regional wireless carrier hosts free, outdoor movie series throughout the Southeast

ATLANTA – April 3, 2007 – SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), will launch its third annual season of Movies Under the Stars, a series of family-oriented films offered to the public to view free of charge on a giant inflatable movie screen at outdoor venues throughout the Southeast. This year’s movie series includes the popular films “Night at the Museum,” “Happy Feet,” and “Charlotte’s Web.”  

In addition to the featured film, each Movies Under the Stars evening will include a live radio remote and give-a-way items. This year’s Movies Under the Stars series kicks off April 6 in Opp, Ala. Other cities include Dothan, Ala.; Clanton, Ala.; Demopolis, Ala.; Vidalia, Ga.; Thomasville, Ala.; Montgomery, Ala.; Pelham, Ala.; Brewton, Ala.; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.  For a complete schedule of movie dates and times, please visit www.southernlinc.com/movies or see the schedule below. The movies begin at sunset and attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket and a picnic dinner.

“SouthernLINC Wireless is bringing back our popular Movies Under the Stars program for the third consecutive year as a way of saying thanks to our valued customers, who are also our friends and neighbors,” said Julie Pigott, vice president of marketing and customer support, SouthernLINC Wireless.  “Our Movies Under the Stars program is a great way for everyone to spend time together outdoors, while enjoying free, family-oriented movies.”

Movies Under the Stars participants also have an onsite opportunity to enter “The Fishing Trip of a Lifetime” sweepstakes sponsored by SouthernLINC Wireless. Professional bass fisherman Tom Mann, Jr. and outdoor enthusiast O’Neill Williams have teamed together to take one lucky winner and a guest on an all-expense paid fishing trip off St. Simons Island, Ga. O’Neill Williams will be filming his cable television program “O’Neill Outside” during this trip, so the winner and guest will appear in a 2008 episode.

Beginning April 1, 2007 and ending June 16, 2007, residents of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi age 21 and older can enter to win this exclusive trip. The winner will be announced in late July 2007 and the trip will take place Sept. 25-28, 2007.  

Full sweepstakes details are available at www.southernlinc.com/fishingtrip, which is also where individuals may submit an online sweepstakes entry form. Interested parties may also register to win at any participating SouthernLINC Wireless retail store, at any participating SouthernLINC
Wireless dealer location or through the postal mail.

Movies Under the Stars: 2007 schedule, presented by SouthernLINC Wireless

Opp, Ala.
Event date: Friday, April 6
Location: Opp High School Stadium

Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Event dates: Friday, April 13; Friday, April 27; Friday, May 11
Location: Bowers Park

Dothan, Ala.
Event dates: Saturday, April 14; Saturday, May 12; Saturday, June 9
Location: Rip Hewes Stadium

Clanton, Ala.
Event dates: Friday, April 20; Saturday, May 5; Friday, May 18
Location: The Corner Park

Vidalia, Ga.
Event dates: Saturday, April 28; Saturday, May 19; Saturday, June 2
Location: Vidalia High School Stadium

Demopolis, Ala.
Event date: Saturday, May 4
Location: Demopolis City Landing Park

Thomasville, Ala.
Event date: Saturday, May 19
Location: Tucker Field

Montgomery, Ala.
Event dates: Thursday, June 14; Thursday, June 21; Thursday, June 28
Location: Ida Belle Young Park (June 14 and 21); Riverfront Center Amphitheater (June 29)

Brewton, Ala.
Event date: Friday, June 15
Location: Brewton City Park

Pelham, Ala.
Event dates: Saturday, June 16; Saturday, June 30
Location: Heardmont Park

About SouthernLINC Wireless
SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), is an Atlanta-based regional wireless carrier covering the major metro and rural areas in Alabama, Georgia, southeastern Mississippi and northwest Florida. SouthernLINC Wireless bundles multiple communication options into one phone including push to talk, cellular service, text messaging, wireless Internet access and wireless data. More information about SouthernLINC Wireless can be obtained by calling 1-800-818-LINC (5462) or visiting the SouthernLINC Wireless Web site at www.southernlinc.com.

About Southern Company
With 4.3 million customers and more than 41,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier energy company serving the Southeast, one of America’s fastest-growing regions. A leading U.S. producer of electricity, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices that are significantly below the national average. Southern Company has received the highest ranking in customer satisfaction among U.S. electric service providers for seven consecutive years by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Visit our Web site at www.southerncompany.com.