NewMariner
join:2005-06-24 | Verizon Eats Qwest
My prediction will be Verizon will snatch it up. |
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GigahertZ420
join:2001-10-02
Fairbanks, AK |  I hope they remain
I love the service they offer. I also love the fact they told the NSA to take a hike! |
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JohnDrenZ
Premium
join:2000-04-03
Phoenix, AZ | reply to NewMariner
Re: Verizon Eats Qwest
I hope your prediction is right. I want my 11 years, I had with verizon back (took buyout when we reloacted to AZ) + my 3 years with qwest and I will be happy. |
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO | YES Please
Yes Please Verizon buy them and bring FIOS to DENVER. |
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joshuapat
join:2002-01-04
Saint Paul, MN
clubs: | And to Minneapolis!  |
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RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs: | Hurry up UTOPIA!
Glad to see they are worried that UTOPIA will not be a failure, despite what some people were trying to say.
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pepperxn
join:2001-02-21
| who could buy qwest
This would go against Verizon's plans. They don't want rural areas. Plus they're already looking into paying around $48-50 billion for the remaining 45% of VZ Wireless.
Qwest, at $14.6 billion marketcap, will be a tough buy for another fiber carrier.
The buyer won't be at&t, could be a cable company, or even Google. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to NewMariner
Re: Verizon Eats Qwest
said by NewMariner  :My prediction will be Verizon will snatch it up. I hope so. at least that would give me some hope of getting FIOS without having to move.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to pepperxn
Re: who could buy qwest
said by pepperxn :This would go against Verizon's plans. They don't want rural areas. Plus they're already looking into paying around $48-50 billion for the remaining 45% of VZ Wireless. Qwest, at $14.6 billion marketcap, will be a tough buy for another fiber carrier. The buyer won't be at&t, could be a cable company, or even Google. I don't care who it is as long as they lay fibre to my house and light me up!
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Slacker44
join:2001-05-10
Gilbert, AZ | reply to pepperxn
Verizon knows if they don't do it someone else will. They could make a lot of money here in Phoenix that's for sure. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to joshuapat
Re: YES Please
I could pretty much agree with you there. The lesser of the two evils would be Verizon. Minnesota won't put up with the crap that AT&T/SBC would try to pull here. Not in a million years.. if you know what they did to Qwest and US West in the past, you'd definetly agree. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20 | reply to pepperxn
Re: who could buy qwest
It's not the rural area that Verizon would care about.. what makes Qwest attractive to any of the others is the back bone and the crossing in the Washington state area... other than that.. Qwest is crap. |
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GilbertMark
Premium
join:2001-05-02
Gilbert, AZ | Hey!
Come on BBR, let's all pitch in, buy it ourselves and show them how to really run a company.
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CCTVTech
Premium
join:2003-04-23
Phoenix, AZ
clubs: | reply to pepperxn
Re: who could buy qwest
Google Broadband via fiber, hell ya! |
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Anti_Cyrix
Premium
join:2003-03-06
Sacramento, CA | reply to GilbertMark
Re: Hey!
How much you got on it? |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
clubs:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to NewMariner
Re: Verizon Eats Qwest
said by NewMariner :My prediction will be Verizon will snatch it up. I don't think so. Verizon is trying to unload the rural areas, New England and some mid-west states. Verizon dumped Hawaii last year. Verizon is going for the high profit densely populated affluent areas. ;-p
The public demanded the Bell System be broken up and now they have it.
The only thing I can possibly see it the government getting involved and declaring a national broadband FIOS is a national security issue. Then all of the former Bell Companies, Bell Labs, Lucent, Avia and Western Electric will be brought together under one holding company. Now what could the name of that holding company be. I KNOW AT&T and associated companies. |
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ITALIAN926
join:2003-08-16
Stratford, CT | reply to pepperxn
Re: who could buy qwest
Cable co or google>? Are u out of your mind? |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| said by ITALIAN926 :Cable co or google>? Are u out of your mind? ditto, how about the yeti buying Qwest? I personally bet ATT since they know how to make money out of 14kilobit rural phone lines. |
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