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Technology Stocks : USW US West: New Things Happening Over the Airwaves -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (154)	9/19/1999 9:19:00 AM
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Why wait for Y2k for phone problems(or if they can't do the job now?): Fate of phone service unclear in merger By Roger Fillion <mailto:business@denverpost.com> Denver Post Business Writer Sept. 19 - Qwest Communications International and US West love to boast about how their impending marriage will transform Internet communications. But conspicuously absent from all the hype is how the $48 billion merger will affect plain-old telephone service. That has state officials and customers in U S West's 14-state region wondering just what the deal means for the 25 million clients who rely on the Baby Bell for local calling. U S West is under fire from state regulators for delayed phone hookups and other service woes in Colorado, Washington and Oregon. Its practices are under close watch in other states such as Nebraska, Utah, Minnesota and Arizona. States that must approve the merger could require the new company to take steps to upgrade basic service as a condition for approval(cont) denverpost.com