Southern Linc is an Atlanta, Georgia based integrated digital wireless service provider that began serving commercial customers in February 1996. Southern Linc was developed by its parent company, Southern Company (NYSE: SO), to meet the wireless communications needs of commercial users as well as Southern Company's subsidiaries including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power. Southern Linc is known for providing highly reliable Push To Talk (PTT) communications. With built-in redundancies, power back-ups and security features designed to enable communications even under the worst weather conditions, Southern Linc has proven its reliability by withstanding the test of the most violent hurricanes, tornadoes and storms.