tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| The Great Kreskin
Everybody has predictions of what will happen in the future..
Unfortunately.. most of these are off the mark.. Aside from at least ONE Cable or Telephone company merger, sale or acquisition, spin-off.. SOMETHING happening.. none of the other companies are going anywhere..
For example, how many customers is Qwest actually hemorraging to change it's fundamental financial stability?
If QWEST went belly-up.. I'm more than sure that it would be relatively even split between Verizon & AT&T--with Verizon getting the crown jewels. Sprint is a more likely company to go belly up with real tangible customer losses piling up. |
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viperlmw
Premium
join:2005-01-25
 ·Qwest.net
| Qwest isn't going under any time soon (read decades) if at all. They are currently making (net) ~1.2 billion a year, and is giving a bunch of it away in the form of a stock dividend. While their debt is high compared to other RBOCs, it's not compared to other S&P 500 companies, and is coming down.
As for a purchase, as stated above, if Verizon wanted them, they would have bought them already. And while Qwest's share price is rather low, it's level of debt is not attractive. While there are some growth prospects, they are barely enough to keep up with pots losses, so revenue is rather stagnant to slightly declining. With a great network but no wireless, they seem to be more likely to stay on their own as the 3rd RBOC than to be bought, and some mergers that make sense to me don't appear to be in the cards (while a Sprint/Qwest merger seems appropriate, Sprint just spun off all their land lines and seem to have no desire to reenter the pots business, and Alltel seems to have no interest in pots).
What Qwest DOES need to do, IMHO, is to work with the cities who want to get fiber to the prem, such as Seattle, and get it done. Their FTTN is a start on some decent speeds, but FTTP is the future. And figure out a good wireless solution! |
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OSUGoose
join:2007-12-27
Columbus, OH
clubs:
·AT&T Midwest
 ·Cingular Wireless
·Verizon BroadbandA..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Alltel used to be in the POTS business in rual Ohio and i think that got sold off to Sprint who was also in the area, who then spun off all pots to embarq. So in Ohio there is a mix of at&t(Realy Ohio Bell dba AT&T Ohio) Verizon North (ex GTE) and Embarq (former company's bought all the outher lil pots operations) . |
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC | reply to tmc8080
I can see Sprint merging with Alltel and maybe US Cellular. |
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Bell System
Premium
join:2005-12-04
Strongsville, OH | reply to OSUGoose
Alltel Landline = Windstream Communications
Sprint Landline = Embarq Communications |
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DarnellP
join:2004-10-12
Las Vegas, NV
| reply to ifarrell
said by ifarrell  :I can see Sprint merging with Alltel and maybe US Cellular. Alltel and US Cellular? While I would love to see that happen, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility would shit bricks and spend millions on lawyers to block it. |
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