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[edit] NSA Spying

The link: http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/060511/1287962.html is broken. Can it be removed? And if removed, there will be a requirement for other reference.

"....oppose the NSA program [4]."


- CosmicLord 17:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger in scare quotes

Why is any reference to the Qwest/US West merger surrounded in scare quotes? D. Wo. 03:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] It is a long story

But the short story is that it wasn't a merger in the true sense; it was a very hostile takeover. There have been allegations that claim that Qwest used dubious tactics and faked financial data to bolster their position in order to finance the takeover. Ask: How did a small, almost start up, long distance provider get enough money to buy out an incumbent telephone company. These claims have been shorn up by a quarter billion fine ($USD) by the SEC.

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Bdelisle 21:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is Sprint-Nextel a competitor?

Need to figure out whether Sprint-Nextel should be considered a competitor or not: Sprint-Nextel is about to spin off local service (Embarq), and Qwest's wireless service is provided by Sprint-Nextel (as BellSouth comes from Cingular). Think this means Sprint-Nextel is not a competitor, except in long distance, which has a very small share (actually, I think Sprint requires customers to have local service to provide Long Distance) in Qwest's region. Fraz 04:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current event?

why is this a current event?--Akako|☎ 11:25, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Verizon, BellSouth, and AT&T handed over records to the NSA. Qwest was the only RBOC not to hand over their records. Loompyloompy313 14:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What did Anschutz really own?

The main article states that Qwest founder Philip Anschutz owned nearly all of the railroads in the Western US. That's overwhelmingly impossible. This needs a correction to state what Anschutz ACTUALLY owned.

 Started out he owned Rio Grande railroad, then bought the Southern Pacific  Railroad and the Union Pacific railroad.

[edit] 2006 wost in customer service needs reference

To publically call a company the worst should have a reference cited. I can not find anything matching this on the search engines. In the JD power telecommunications survey for 2006 they were not worst in the West region or overall national. JD Survey Please cite reference Sardious 23:54, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move to Qwest Communications International

This page should be moved to Qwest Communications International since the current name of Qwest Corporation is in violation of Wikipedia policy regarding the "Corporation" suffix included in the page name. KansasCity 18:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

  • So why don't we merge the two articles, carefully distinguishing the companies, and call the result Qwest? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Merging the two articles would not be logical as Qwest is a holding company not rooted in American Telephone & Telegraph and has only been around since 1996; Qwest Corporation, on the other hand, has been in existence since 1911 and is a Bell Operating Company. KansasCity 21:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 08:29, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company

Please stop removing the other BOC's. The premise to identify Qwest Corporation and Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company as the same thing is working of a technicality in how the merger was constructed. This is not reflective of what Qwest Corporation historically was/is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.161.145.72 (talk) 06:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)