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Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (4942)	8/18/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: SJS	Respond to of 6846

Didn't see that, but did anyone see this? _________ AT&T Corp. (T) 48 5/8 -1 3/16: telecommunications company files a formal complaint with regulators to end U S WEST's "out of control" service problems; believes that deteriorating service is harming AT&T's ability to operate in the Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington region; biz.yahoo.com

To: RTev who wrote (4942)	8/18/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

Here's another bit of QWST trivia that I just ran across on the comp.dcom.xdsl newsgroup. Turns out that BellAtlantic's ISP uses a Qwest company for its internet backbone. They were a customer of IconNet inherited by Qwest along with the acquisition of ICMP in December. USWest.net does not (yet) use Qwest. Their primary backbone is WCOM's alter.net with sprintnet as a secondary. I'm not sure about BellSouth or Ameritech. When I tracert to either of them (through uswest.net), all of the traffic stays on alter.net, but that might be because they are a secondary backbone for one or the other. PacBell and the rest of SBC seem to use digex.net. Since uswest.net is non-regulated, I expect to see them switch over to the Qwest network by the time the merger is completed.