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

To: ahhaha who wrote (5200)	10/5/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: Scotsman	Respond to of 6846

However, copper lines have conduit, and that conduit is very valuable. Sure beats tearing up streets trying to lay new conduit to house your fiber. Assuming you could even get permission to do so. I agree that no merger will take place until the USW deal is done. Why would you purchase a package of problems. It would make more sense to purchase it after all the work is done and success is assured, even if you have to pay much more.

To: ahhaha who wrote (5200)	10/6/1999 12:28:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

It isn't in BLS' interest to buy QWST or any carrier. I agree. My suggestion was only that the regulators won't stop them from doing something stupid.

To: ahhaha who wrote (5200)	10/6/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Rupert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

I'm enjoying this recent QWST rally but I'm afraid it may be the last one we get until Global Crossing buys the whole thing, probably this time next year. > In contrast, consider buying a pile of wasting copper junk Although once you turbocharge that copper with xDSL it actually becomes rather cool.... However, the telephone companies have been shamefully lame and utterly clueless about providing this technology to bandwidth starved consumers. Millions of people are ready to pay for DSL but either don't know about it (clueless marketing), can't get it (clueless implementation), can't get it yet (clueless rollout), or need to get their last-pole-to-plug wiring changed because it won't support DSL (just generally clueless).