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To: SJS who wrote (1056)	4/1/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 6846

[Qwest and Verio Inc. Sign $100 Million Capacity Agreement] DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1998--Qwest, a multimedia communications company building the world's most advanced fiber optic network, and Verio Inc., one of the nation's largest full-service Internet companies for businesses and institutions, today announced a seven-year, $100 million contract by which Verio will have access to capacity on Qwest's domestic 16,285-mile Macro Capacity(SM) Fiber Network. "We are pleased to provide Verio with capacity on Qwest's state-of-the-art fiber network," said Joseph P. Nacchio, president and CEO at Qwest. "Verio has grown quickly to a prominent position in the Internet industry because of its success in combining local, hands-on service with a national, high-speed network that can support the increasingly sophisticated needs of its business customers." "Our seven-year agreement with Qwest underscores Verio's ongoing effort to provide a high-speed, highly reliable network for our business and institutional customers around the country," said Verio chief executive officer Justin Jaschke. "Qwest's high-capacity nationwide network will provide Verio with a strong facilities base to support our continued rapid growth and to develop a wide range of enhanced Internet products and services to meet our customers' expanding telecommunications requirements."

To: SJS who wrote (1056)	4/1/1998 9:30:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6846

Level 3 Communications (L3) starts trading today on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol LVLT. (this is not an IPO.) mark

To: SJS who wrote (1056)	4/2/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Howard Hoffman	Respond to of 6846

I have OptionVue and get daily quotes which usually are consistent with Schwab quotes. The values I use are the actual closing bid and ask which are used to develop a "market price". The program then computes over or under % for that market price. You can look at the prices many different ways. Software is expensive (around $2K and the service costs up to $40/mo for the quotes, based on actual usage). The program allows you to select from the classic Black-Scholes model (won the Nobel prize for econ this past year) or two other models which are more accurate refinements of B-S. In general, I pay little attention to option closing prices. They only count for very active issues.