19 Facts About Qwest

Qwest Communications International, Inc was a United States telecommunications carrier.

Qwest provided local service in 14 western and midwestern U S states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Qwest provided voice, Internet backbone data services, and digital television in some areas.

Qwest partnered with DirecTV to provide digital television service to its customers.

Qwest Communications provided long-distance services and broadband data, as well as voice and video communications globally.

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Qwest 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.

Qwest Communications was headquartered in Denver, Colorado at 1801 California Street, in the second tallest building in Denver at 53 stories.

Qwest had software development centers in Bangalore and Noida, India called Qwest Software Services.

Qwest Communications grew aggressively, acquiring internet service provider SuperNet in 1997, followed by the acquisition of LCI, a low cost long-distance carrier in 1998, and followed again by the acquisition of Icon CMT, a web hosting provider, in 1998.

In 2003, Qwest acquired Touch America from 360networks after 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 US WEST region.

Qwest Communications has partnered with other major communications companies during its history.

In Europe, 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 1998 and went on to launch an initial public offering on the Nasdaq and Amsterdam stock Exchanges in November 1999.

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.

Qwest'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.

In 2005, former Chairman and chief executive officer Joseph Nacchio, former President and chief operating officer Afshin Mohebbi and seven other former Qwest employees were accused of fraud in a civil lawsuit filed by the SEC.

In 2004, Qwest became the first Regional Bell operating company in the United States to offer Standalone DSL, i e DSL Internet service that does not require the customer to have local landline phone service.

Social media experiment and website covering the Qwest holdout, "Thank you Qwest dot Org" built by Netherlands-based webmaster Richard Kastelein and American expatriate journalist Chris Floyd, was covered by the CNN Situation Room, USA Today, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Denver Post, News.