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

To: MangoBoy who wrote (2230)	9/18/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

I'm starting to think this is actually a very big deal. Here a little snip from Noglows in today's thestreet.com "....Yesterday, Netscape Communications (NSCP:Nasdaq) announced that it had signed a three-year strategic alliance with telecommunications provider Qwest Communications (QWST:Nasdaq) to create a single service on Netcenter called Netscape Contact, where consumers can manage all of their telephone and Internet communications. Under the terms of the venture, long-distance telephone calls, conference calls, faxing, email, Internet access and combined voice and email in a single inbox will be available from Netscape Contact, which will serve as the home base for a customer's ongoing communications needs. While skeptics might write off the offerings as nothing more than another attempt to target Internet users for long-distance phone services, I believe the deal represents an important step along the path to becoming a trusted full-service communications/information manager and points in the direction of eventual cross-platform ubiquity. Given this venture, I believe it is even more appropriate to look for similar intitiatives from AOL and Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq) down the road." Paul Noglows is a senior analyst in Hambrecht & Quist's Internet Research Group....