Talk:Qwest

• Unreferenced and has a trivia section

Switched to reselling Verizon from Sprint

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073001311.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.195.113.153 (talk) 12:26, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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)

Does it need to say "The United States Supreme Court denied bail pending appeal the same day." twice in the same section with the same references, or can we remove the first of the redundant sentences since it makes no sense in the position it is in now? 68.230.116.65 (talk) 05:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Good catch. So removed. oknazevad (talk) 01:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

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)

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.

References:

• www.freenewmexican.com/news/11585.html
• www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Telecoms.html
• www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_4330631,00.html

Bdelisle 21:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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)

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)

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.

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)

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)

• Policy does not prohibit this style - see CBS Corporation for example. -- Beardo 03:26, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
• Comment See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) for the policy. As for the move, which company is the more well known? Do we need to set up a disambiguation? Unless Qwest Corporation is the best known it shouldn't be moved to Qwest, IMO. Richard001 00:51, 14 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)

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)

SBC or Qwest

The article says that Qwest became the first to offer standalone DSL in 2004, but the article also says that SBC became the first in 1999. Which is correct? PCHS-NJROTC ^(Messages) 15:55, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Security of customer records

(4/2012) Qwest had some data publicly accessible at ftp.qwest.com, a site left over from US WEST days. It’s mostly uninteresting status data exchanged between systems in automated processes. Still, there’s potential for misuse of the site, so CenturyLink is shutting it down in stages. Most of the site has already been taken down or transferred to a credentialed & encrypted file exchange system.

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South Pacific Probably didn't have the first fiber optic

This government document lists a lot of firsts for them and does state the fiber optic cables were laid in the 1980s, however no where does it say it was the first for fiber optic. Especially considering governments, local or otherwise, have a vested interest in self-promoting through such claims, I highly doubt the document would omit something like that if it were known. 24.210.250.17 (talk) 12:37, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

The Last 2 Paragraphs of "Accounting and insider trading irregularities" are in the Wrong Section [Nov'19]

Something must have gotten lost along the way, these 2 paragraphs clearly have no relation to the subheading they are under, as well as the section they are under ("Problems") - they don't appear at all to be problems. 2604:3D08:497F:F430:686E:35E:4941:322B (talk) 00:23, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Qwest as an ISP

I would be nice if someone could add some information about Qwest as an ISP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.241.152.175 (talk) 20:33, 9 April 2020 (UTC)