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

To: mfgrep who wrote (3075)	3/10/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: Digitom	Respond to of 6846

<<...Qwest as of close today at $69 per share would be worth approx. 2.3 billion. What is Sprint worth????>> 30.6 Billion according to this rudimentary thumbnail at top of FON profile page. techstocks.com

To: mfgrep who wrote (3075)	3/10/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: LLCoolG	Respond to of 6846

Jason, Qwest is worth $23B, you are an order of magnitude off. This is certainly not a small cap issue. G

To: mfgrep who wrote (3075)	3/11/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: musea	Respond to of 6846

Jason, Bandwidth has not played out the way that particular prophet envisioned. There are several promising technologies that will vie for dominant status. I think that the key is to scatter some money around the different technologies (e.g. cable, fiber, copper, wireless) and you will have at least one winner. Market cap is a funny thing. The market supposedly discounts future cash flows in determining valuation. But why would you be alarmed that Qwest might have the same market cap as Sprint? On the one hand you have a company with a technological edge in an industry that serves as a backbone for commerce. On the other (please correct me if I'm mistaken about Sprint) you have a company in an increasingly commodity-oriented end-user business competing with other companies with equally good proprietary technologies (GTE, AT&T, etc.). Maybe I'm just trying to feel better about Qwest... -musea