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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (5120)	9/4/1999 6:13:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

An interesting thing about the Qwest maps is that it shows how most of their infrastructure avoids US West territory. Its IP Infrastructure map shows 14 "TeraPOP" locations. Only two of them, Seattle and Denver, are in USW territory. Just one of the 6 "Cyber Centers" (Denver) is in USW area. Even their fiber itself (showing its Southern Pacific heritage) avoids a big chunk of USW territory. As near as I can tell, only 10 continental US states are skipped. Four of them are in USW territory. (The others are the three upper New England states, Delaware (although it's surrounded by tight coverage), West Virginia, and Mississippi.)

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (5120)	9/13/1999 8:15:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: Qwest in the Last Mile? Thread, Apparently since Qwest has completed their 18,500 fiber backbone, they are now setting their sights on building local fiber networks. Sounds like they are going to make direct connections to businesses via DSL technology. That's what Nacchio said on CNBC today. I wasn't sure if he was referring to only the US West deal or if he was referring to the details below. All the details are below for posterity. Sounds pretty interesting to me. MikeM(From Florida) _______________________ Qwest Communications Completes 18,500 Mile Nationwide Network and Shifts Construction to 25 Local Fiber Networks Construction in Seven Cities to Be Complete Next Year. 18 More to Follow in 2001 DENVER, Sept. 13 -- Qwest Communications International announced that it has completed construction of 18,500 miles of its Internet-based U.S. network and people and resources are being shifted to accelerate building 25 local broadband networks. Qwest will herald the significance of building the new network in a new branding campaign on television and in magazines starting Wednesday. The advertising will communicate that Qwest has completed construction of the first high-speed, high-capacity network built for broadband Internet-based communications. The TV ads will run on major news, sports and entertainment cable networks, and the print ad will appear in business and information technology publications. The Qwest network has 888,000 fiber miles across the U.S. Construction was completed on time and under budget. The state of the art network connects 150 cities nationwide and connects globally to Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Building an Internet network requires time and people---2,300 Qwest people working 16 million hours built the network since 1995. "We focused on speed in completing our new network to be the first company to deliver the promise of the Internet," said Joseph P. Nacchio, Qwest chairman and CEO. "Now we intend to deliver low-cost Internet and e-commerce services to businesses at a local level." To provide local broadband access to Qwest's nationwide network, the company will build high-speed local fiber networks in 25 major metropolitan areas. With the local networks in place, Qwest's will increase its total U.S. fiber miles by more than 20 percent to more than 1.1 million fiber miles. Construction in seven cities is expected to be complete next year. The remaining cities will be built and operational by the end of 2001. Local networks will enable Qwest to connect hundreds of businesses of all sizes to the Qwest long distance backbone network for a wide variety of services including data, image and voice communications. The 25 cities include: Albany, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Orange County, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and White Plains. Qwest is also expanding its network construction initiatives globally. Qwest is building a pan-European IP network with KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company, that currently covers 2,100 miles and will span 8,100 miles when it is completed by 2002. In addition, Qwest also has nearly completed a 1,400-mile network in Mexico and owns capacity in high-speed fiber optic cables that stretch across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.