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Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST)
Q 97.26+4.5%3:59 PM EST
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To: PaperChase who wrote (5086)9/18/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: RTev  Read Replies (1) of 6846
 
I really don't understand the synergy between QWST and US West on the residential side. So US West will use QWST as a backbone for bandwidth.

I think it gives them the ability to offer the bundled services that will become even more important in a competitive local market.

It doesn't work until they've opened their local exchanges to competition (something USW has been notoriously slow at doing), but once that happens, QWST (combined with USW) will be able to offer long distance as a near zero-cost component of a package that includes broadband internet access (using Qwest's backbone instead of WCOM's as USW does now), local phone services with an array of extra (and extra-cost) services, and integrated PCS wireless service. A USW test in Phoenix even indicates that they're getting back into video services, but using their copper wires this time instead of the coax they used with the UMG cable properties.
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