Question: Where is the company based that sold Vodafone it's New Zealand operations?
Context: Kordia is a New Zealand government-owned broadcast and telecommunications company, operating in Australia and New Zealand.  It provides national communications services for broadcast and telecommunications customers in New Zealand, as well as specialised network systems.  New Zealand customers include: Vodafone New Zealand, 2degrees, Sky Television, TVNZ, Mediaworks, Radio New Zealand, Spark New Zealand, Freeview, and The Radio Network.  In Australia, Kordia provides contracting and consulting services for major telecommunications players, including Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and Hutchison. Vodafone New Zealand is a telecommunications company operating in New Zealand; it is a subsidiary of the London-listed company Vodafone Plc.  It is New Zealand's largest mobile phone operator, based in Auckland, and was formed in 1998, after Vodafone purchased BellSouth's New Zealand operations.  The company employs over 3,000 people and has operations nationwide, with its main offices based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.  The company is part of New Zealand Telecommunications Forum. Mount Cook Group was a New Zealand tourism and transport operator founded on 2 April 1912 by Rodolph Lysaght Wigley.  Originally a road transport business, the "Mount Cook Tourist Company of New Zealand" became a public company in 1928.  By 1930 Wigley had built it into the largest tourist organisation in New Zealand, and it was renamed "Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company", the name adopted in the mid 1930s.  In 1976 it became "The Mount Cook Group Ltd".  The company was split in 1989 with various operations progressively sold off, with Air New Zealand retaining the airline businesses.  The company remained (on paper) until 17 June 2013 when it was amalgamated into Air New Zealand Associated Companies Limited, a holding company for Air New Zealand's various businesses (and current "owner" of Mount Cook Airline). BellSouth Corporation (stylized as "BELLSOUTH") was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.  BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984. Jeni Mundy FREng (born in 1965) is Director, Products and Innovations at Vodafone.  She emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in 1994 with a master’s in electronic engineering and began her telecoms career with Bellsouth as an RF engineer.  By 2001 she was head of the technology team at Vodafone New Zealand (after the UK carrier bought up Bellsouth in 1998).  She moved to the UK CTO position in 2007. Black+White is a New Zealand mobile virtual network operator which uses Vodafone New Zealand's GSM (and UMTS networks, where available).  Their handsets are compatible with the Vodafone network and some may also be compatible with Spark's network.  The handsets are similar to Vodafone's handset range but are sold at different prices.  Although they operate on Vodafone's network, Black+White use their own mobile numbers with the 028 prefix at the beginning of the mobile number. New Zealand–North Korea relations (Korean:뉴질랜드-조선민주주의인민공화국 관계) refers to international relations between New Zealand and North Korea.  Relations between the two countries have been almost non-existent since the division of Korea.  During the Korean War in the 1950s, New Zealand troops fought as part of the United Nations force that repelled the North Korean invasion of South Korea.  Since then, New Zealand and North Korea have had little contact, until July 2000 when North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Phil Goff met in Bangkok, leading to the establishment of diplomatic relations in March 2001.  The New Zealand ambassador to South Korea based in Seoul is also cross-accredited to North Korea.  In 2006, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon, drawing criticism and suspension of relations by the New Zealand government, which holds a staunch anti-nuclear policy.  New Zealand began re-establishing formal relations in 2007, when the New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters visited Pyongyang on November 20 to discuss possible political and economic deals with North Korea, on the basis that it start dismantling its nuclear weapons facilities. Vodafone Events Centre (originally the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre) is a multi-purpose event centre located in Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand (suburb of the former Manukau City), with an indoor arena, theatre and meeting halls hosting community, cultural and sports events, concerts and plays, exhibits, trade shows and expos, corporate functions, meetings, weddings and other special events.  The event centre has cost an estimated NZ$ 48.7 million, of which somewhat less than half came from Manukau City Council.  The naming rights sponsor was TelstraClear.  but after it was purchased by Vodafone New Zealand, the center was subsequently renamed. The history of Air New Zealand, the national carrier of New Zealand, began when the amalgamated East Coast Airways and Cook Strait Airways began operations in January 1936 as Union Airways of N.Z. Ltd, the country's first major airline.  Union Airways was the sole New Zealand aviation partner in Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL), which made its inaugural flight in 1940.  The New Zealand Government bought full ownership of TEAL in 1961 and the airline was renamed "Air New Zealand" in 1965.  New Zealand's domestic airline, National Airways Corporation (NAC), was merged with Air New Zealand in 1978.  Air New Zealand was privatised in 1989 but in the early 2000s (decade) it got in financial trouble and in 2001 the New Zealand Government took up 80% ownership in return for injecting NZ$885M.  In November 2013, the National Government sold down its share in Air New Zealand from 73% to 53% as part of its controversial asset sales programme. Allied Press is a New Zealand publishing company based in Dunedin.  The company's main asset is the Otago Daily Times, New Zealand's oldest daily newspaper.  Allied Press also has a number of other daily and community newspapers and commercial printing operations throughout southern New Zealand.  It also operates Dunedin's regional television station, 39 Dunedin Television, on Freeview HD.
Answer: Atlanta, Georgia