ATLANTA— PowerCall, Inc., a business unit of Southern Company, announced today that it has been awarded the security equipment contract for the two largest shopping malls in Georgia—the Mall of Georgia and Lenox Square—which are owned by Simon Properties Group, Inc.

PowerCall has installed exterior cameras at the Mall of Georgia to monitor the parking lots and will install interior and exterior cameras at Lenox Square to monitor both the parking lots and inside of the mall. The cameras will provide high-resolution color by day and monochrome by night, and will record 24 hours a day.

The Mall of Georgia and Lenox Square are the two largest malls in Georgia. Lenox Square has 1,426,000 square feet and is anchored by Rich’s, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus. Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor and JC Penney anchor the Mall of Georgia, which recently opened with 1,600,000 square feet.

“Our new partnership with Simon Properties Group, Inc. affords us the opportunity to provide service to two of the Southeast’s premier retail centers,” said Bertram Sears, president and CEO of PowerCall, Inc.

Simon Properties Group, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. Through subsidiary partnerships, it is engaged primarily in the ownership, development, management, leasing, acquisition and expansion of income-producing, market-dominant retail properties, primarily regional malls, community shopping centers and specialty retail centers. SPG is the largest publicly traded retail real estate company in North America with a total market capitalization at May 31, 1999 of approximately $17 billion.

A Southern Company business unit, PowerCall is a full security provider with value-added services such as 24-hour commercial and residential security monitoring. The company installs security cameras, computer-based access control, fully addressable fire alarms and intrusion alarm systems with back-up cellular service.

Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is an international energy company with more than $35 billion in assets through regional utilities and operations around the world. It is the largest producer of electricity in the United States and one of the world’s leading independent power producers. Based in Atlanta, Southern Company is the parent firm of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. Through its Southern Energy Inc. subsidiary, Southern Company supplies electricity in 10 countries on four continents and has a growing presence in North America with assets in the Northeast, the Midwest, California and Texas. Southern Company also provides energy-related marketing, trading and technical services in the United States and Europe and offers Southern LINC wireless telecommunications.