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United Statestelecommunications carrier. Qwest provided local service in 1. U. S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. On April 2. 2, 2. Century. Link announced it would acquire Qwest in a stock transaction.[2] The merger closed on April 1, 2. Qwest began doing business as Century.
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Link in August 2. Qwest provided voice, Internet backbone data services, and digital television in some areas. It operated in three segments: Wireline Services, Wireless Services, and Other Services. The Wireline Services segment provided local voice, long distance voice, and data and Internet (DSL) services to consumers, businesses, and wholesale customers, as well as access services to wholesale customers. The Wireless Services segment was achieved by a partnership with Verizon Wireless. Qwest also partnered with Direc.
Qwest Communications International, Inc. was a large United States telecommunications carrier. Qwest provided local service in 14 western and midwestern U.S. states. Patrick Lambert has been working in the tech industry for over 15 years, both as an online freelancer and in companies around Montreal, Canada. · Laura Poitras‘ Citizenfour earned near unanimous praise when it opened, and even won the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year’s Oscars. Beyond. Homeland is an American spy thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War (Original title.
TV to provide digital television service to its customers. In Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City, Boise, and Omaha, Qwest offered Qwest Choice TV (later also known as Qwest Digital Television), an IPTV service over DSL.
This service was retired in October 2. May 2. 00. 8), leaving Direc. TV as the only TV service Qwest provided. Qwest Choice TV customers were moved to Direc. TV. The Other Services segment primarily involved the sublease of real estate assets, such as space in office buildings, warehouses, and other properties.
Qwest Communications also provided long- distance services and broadband data, as well as voice and video communications globally. The company sold its products and services to small businesses, governmental entities, and public and private educational institutions through various channels, including direct- sales marketing, telemarketing, arrangements with third- party agents, company’s Web site, and partnership relations. As of September 1.
Qwest had 9. 8 retail stores in 1. Qwest Communications was headquartered in Denver, Colorado at 1. Watch Playing It Cool Dailymotion there.
California Street, in the second tallest building in Denver at 5. The majority of Qwest occupational or non- management employees were represented by two labor unions; the Communications Workers of America and in Montana, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Qwest also had software development centers in Bangalore and Noida (New Delhi), India called Qwest Software Services.
History[edit]Founding[edit]Founded in 1. Philip Anschutz, Qwest began in an unconventional way.
Anschutz, who owned the Southern Pacific Railroad at the time, established the subsidiary Southern Pacific Telecommunications Company and began installing the first[where?][citation needed] all- digital, fiber- optic infrastructure along his railroad lines and connecting them into central junctions in strategic locations to serve businesses with high- speed data and T1 services. In 1. 99. 7, the Southern Pacific Railroad was merged into the Union Pacific, in which Qwest gained access to UP's railroad lines to lay fiber- optic cable for its telecom network.
At that time Anschutz had a contract with MCI to lay nationwide fiber for them along the railway lines; he took advantage of this situation and laid his own fiber along with that of MCI. In 1. 99. 5, SP Telecom moved from San Francisco to Denver after acquiring Dallas- based Qwest Communications Corp., a digital microwave system owner, taking over its name and facilities. The Qwest headquarters were at 5. Street. Qwest Communications grew aggressively, acquiring internet service provider Super. Net in 1. 99. 7, followed by the acquisition of LCI, a low cost long distance carrier (located in Dublin, Ohio and Mc. Lean, Virginia) in 1. Icon CMT, a web hosting provider, also in 1.
This launched Qwest as not only a provider of high speed data to the niche market of corporate customers, but also a quick- growing residential and business long distance customer base that it quickly merged into its data service. Qwest partnered with the Dutch national telecom operator KPN to create the pan- European data communications and hosting company KPNQwest.
KPNQwest was formed in November 1. Initial Public Offering on the Nasdaq and Amsterdam stock Exchanges in November 1. KPNQwest collapsed in bankruptcy in 2. US West acquisition[edit].
USWEST Corporate Logo, 1. Qwest merged with "Baby Bell" US West on June 3. Philip Anschutz owned 1. Unlike prior merger transactions between the Baby Bells, in which the acquired entities survived as subsidiaries of SBC Communications and Bell Atlantic, US WEST ceased to exist when it was immediately absorbed into Qwest with all subsidiaries of US WEST becoming directly owned by Qwest. As a condition of the merger, Qwest was required to sell off its long distance operations in the 1. They were eventually sold to Touch America.
In 2. 00. 3, Qwest acquired Touch America from 3. Touch America filed for bankruptcy. The acquisition ended ongoing disputes between the two companies in which Touch America alleged Qwest continued to illegally sell long distance services within the former U S WEST region.[4]Directory operations sale[edit]In 2. Qwest agreed to sell its directory operations, Qwest.
Dex, to private equity firms The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for $7 billion. The sale allowed Qwest to generate cash to fend off a bankruptcy filing to which it may have had to resort due to significant amounts of debt it had incurred since the collapse of the dot- com bubble.[5] The resulting company was named Dex Media, when the sale was completed in 2. Alliances[edit]Qwest Communications partnered with other major communications companies, including AT& T and Verizon, to form Movearoo. Created on July 9, 2. Problems[edit]Customer complaints and consumer issues[edit]One of the historically significant mass complaints regarding Qwest involved allegations that the then- long- distance- only company switched local telephone service customers over to Qwest's long- distance service without their permission, an illegal practice known as slamming. In July 2. 00. 0, Qwest paid a $1.
Federal Communications Commission to resolve slamming complaints. In April 2. 00. 1, they paid a $3. Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection after the state cited them for deceptive advertising and slamming practices.[8] The company's settlements included a requirement that all of its sales employees sign a pledge stating that slamming was barred and a condition for dismissal from Qwest employment. Accounting and insider trading irregularities[edit]The company was also involved in accounting scandals, and was fined $2. U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to be split into two $1. Qwest's current financial health. Among the transactions in question were a series of deals from 1.
Enron's broadband division which may have helped Enron conceal losses. In 2. 00. 5, former Chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Joseph Nacchio, former President and chief operating officer (COO) Afshin Mohebbi and seven other former Qwest employees were accused of fraud in a civil lawsuit filed by the SEC. Separately, Nacchio was convicted of 1. Qwest stock on April 1. On March 3. 1, 2.
US Federal Judge Marcia Krieger issued a summary judgement rejecting all SEC's claims against Afshin Mohebbi and ruling in his favor. Qwest's slogan from 1. Ride The Light", which was meant to portray the company as technologically advanced.
In October 2. 00. Richard C. Notebaert, who took over as CEO in June of that year, introduced the "Spirit of Service" campaign which promotes the company as being refocused on customer satisfaction.
This slogan was in use until October 2. In 2. 00. 4, Qwest became the first Regional Bell operating company (RBOC) in the United States to offer Standalone DSL (also known as Naked DSL), i. DSLInternet service that does not require the customer to have local landline phone service. Refusal of NSA surveillance requests[edit]In May 2.
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