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InternetNews October 4, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Pursues Fed Networking Bonanza The carrier assembles a team of IT firms to get a piece of $40 billion in government networking deals. AT&T, Ma Bell, and MCI have also formed groups to bid on the contracts.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Dave Mock	Sprint Out of the Race Early The government snubs Sprint on communications contracts. Investors, take note.
InternetNews February 24, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Will Persistence (and Cash) Pay Off For Qwest? Qwest restructures its bid for MCI, putting new pressure on MCI's board and Verizon's standing bid.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2008 Dave Mock	The Quest for a Better Deal Qwest Communications may give Sprint Nextel the boot and strike a deal with another wireless network operator, as the regional telecommunications player looks to revamp partnerships to remain competitive.
InternetNews May 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Bids Bitter GoodBye to MCI Pursuit Qwest has harsh words for MCI and winning bidder Verizon as it drops its three-month pursuit.
InternetNews May 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Returns to Verizon After a brief flirtation with Qwest, MCI's board endorses Verizon's new $8.4B takeover bid.
InternetNews March 22, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Blasts MCI Over Disconnected Talks CEO Richard Notebaert has harsh words for MCI's board and even harsher ones for rival bidder Verizon.
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI, Qwest Return to The Table The decision to resume the exchange comes after Qwest CEO blasts MCI for stopping acquisition talks.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Starts Clock On MCI Offer The regional carrier's $8.45B bid for the network operator will expire April 5.
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Quiet Ahead of MCI Deadline The carrier has until midnight to try and displace Qwest as MCI's merger partner.
InternetNews April 5, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Wants Props by Midnight The carrier provides additional financing commitments and wants to hear by midnight if MCI is leaning its way.
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005 Palmeri & Grow	One Big Question Mark After losing MCI to Verizon, Qwest CEO Notebaert has to shift strategy.
InternetNews July 2, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Goes West Paying Qwest for wireless network assets, the mobile carrier expands its coverage in 14 states.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Colin C. Haley	VZ Wireless Westward Expansion on Track FTC approves the company's $418M purchase of Qwest's mobile assets.
InternetNews May 9, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Gets Defensive The telecom will handle Web hosting for a Department of Defense unit under a 10-year contract. Also, Qwest officials have been talking with large institutional shareholders about the Verizon proposal, which will be voted on by MCI shareholders in late June or early July.
InternetNews June 15, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Deephaven Wants to Deep-Six MCI-Verizon Qwest has said it's time to move on after MCI accepted a lower takeover offer from Verizon, but Deephaven Capital isn't ready to give up.
InternetNews April 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest For MCI Rewarded Qwest's $9.7B offer is one MCI can't refuse, but Verizon may not be done.
Global Services April 24, 2007	Big Action in Govt., Retail Sector In March 2007, many outsourcing deals were inked in the government sector with a major one between the U.S. General Services Administration and AT&T, Qwest, Verizon.
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI-Verizon Merger Vote Set MCI shareholders will weigh in on Verizon's acquisition offer next month.
InternetNews March 31, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Isn't Done Yet Qwest submits a third bid for MCI and chastises the network operator's board.
InternetNews February 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	Qwest Keeping Tabs on MCI Against the backdrop of its less-than-stellar annual financial results, Qwest executives are keeping their MCI option open, but analysts are less optimistic.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Roy Mark	Telecom Mergers Get House Nod Top House leaders say the proposed Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T mergers are moving telecom, Internet in the right direction.
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Won't Quit; Verizon Swipes Back Qwest may revise its $8 billion offer for MCI again, while Verizon refutes some earlier claims.
InternetNews March 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	Qwest Readies New Bid For MCI Qwest's chairman says its bid will demonstrate its commitment to winning MCI... Verizon faces pressure to raise its own MCI Bid.
InternetNews April 22, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Ups Bid For MCI The regional carrier makes its 'best and final offer' of $9.7 billion for the network services provider.
InternetNews March 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Chooses Verizon, Spurns Qwest MCI accepts Verizon's merger offer after the Baby Bell raises its bid by $1 billion, to $7.6 billion.
InternetNews March 1, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest to MCI: Why Not Us? Qwest's CEO said during a meeting with financial analysts that he wants to find out why MCI prefers a merger offer from Verizon.
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley	And Then There Were Two in Telecom? The long-awaited telecom industry consolidation is here, and it's changing everything.
InternetNews April 4, 2005 Colin C. Haley	A Continuing Qwest For MCI Feeling insecure, Verizon threatens to walk if MCI looks Qwest's way.
InternetNews January 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Verizon Completes MCI Takeover Verizon completed its $8.4 billion purchase of MCI today, creating the nation's second largest telecom carrier behind the new AT&T, which itself is a newly formed merger between the former long distance carrier and SBC.
BusinessWeek December 4, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	Where Opportunity Is Knocking For Small Business Washington's proposed network upgrade could be a windfall.
InternetNews October 22, 2009	Carrier CTOs Talk the Future of the Network Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, BT and Qwest execs explain their plans for dealing with the coming IP Tsunami.
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Colin C. Haley	MCI Shareholders OK Verizon Merger MCI shareholders today voted to accept Verizon's $8.4 billion takeover offer, moving one step closer to completing telecom's latest mega-merger.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Rich Duprey	MCI in Qwest for Merger? Rumors swirl about a possible second blockbuster merger in telecommunications.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2005 Tim Beyers	Qwest for a Meeting The beleaguered telco takes its bid for MCI straight to investors.
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 Roben Farzad	Qwest Isn't As Hale As It Looks Qwest is back from the brink of bankruptcy. But its cash flow could come under pressure.
InternetNews February 3, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Qwest Said to Bid $6B For MCI The Baby Bell reportedly makes a $6 billion offer for the long-distance specialist, but Verizon is also interested.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Verizon Gives MCI 2 Weeks For Qwest Talks Verizon is confident MCI will conclude that a Verizon-MCI deal is more compelling than a Qwest-MCI combination in terms of long term prospects - despite a lower price tag.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Tim Beyers	Verizon's Qwest in Peril? Troubled telco Qwest makes one more bid for MCI. Will Verizon up its offer? Investors, take note.
InternetNews April 22, 2010	Qwest Could Go to CenturyLink in $22B Deal The third- and fifth-place U.S. telecom carriers are poised to become one.
InternetNews June 11, 2007	Qwest CEO to Exit Networking company Qwest Communications is on a quest for new senior management. Current CEO Richard Notebaert said he would step down from his roles as CEO and chairman upon selection of a successor.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 Phil Wohl	Qwest Off Course The struggling local telco has strayed from roots.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2004 Ben McClure	Troubled Qwest The company's second-quarter results leave investors with little change.
PHONE+ Doug Allen	Are Carriers Contenders for the Cloud Services Channel? Take a look at several carrier's basic cloud service offerings and market strategy, as well as their thoughts on the channel.
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Jim Wagner	Qwest Prepares New MCI Bid Qwest will take another run at the long-distance carrier in hopes of displacing Verizon.
Global Services January 3, 2008 Khan & Bhambal	Public Sector's Favorite IT Providers In 2007 General Dynamics and SAIC have been the most preferred IT services providers of the public sector buyer community, finds the recent study of Global Services
InternetNews May 15, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Qwest Cuts Ethernet Deal Qwest Communications said Monday it will buy privately owned OnFiber in a $107 million deal that could help the Denver-based telecom company compete nationally with the giants.
InternetNews February 4, 2004 Colin Haley	Seeking Savings, Sprint Turns to IBM To offset lagging wireline business, the carrier awards a multi-billion-dollar call center outsourcing contract to Big Blue.
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Christopher Palmeri	Qwest: Off The Critical List, But... Cash on hand doesn't help a declining core business and big accounting probes
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