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Qwest Corporation, doing business as CenturyLink QC, is a Regional Bell Operating Company owned by Lumen Technologies.It was originally named Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, later becoming known as Mountain Bell, then US West Communications, Inc. from 1991 to 2000.
Qwest Communications Company, LLC was an affiliate of Qwest that currently provides long-distance telephone and long-haul data services. It was the classic pre-US West-merger entity founded in 1996. Qwest Communications Corporation changed its name and corporate status on January 2, 2009, to a limited liability company.
Qwest Communications International - which, ... It also includes companies formerly owned by Centel which was purchased by Sprint in 1993. CenturyLink of Florida, Inc.
Telecom carriers CenturyLink (CTL) and Qwest Communications (Q) have announced plans to get hitched, the latest merger in an ongoing consolidation trend among the smaller, regional phone companies.
Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink, Inc.) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, which offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice and managed services through its fiber optic and copper networks, as well as its data centers and cloud computing services.
Verizon formerly served ex-GTE areas in parts of California, Florida and Texas before selling to Frontier Communications in 2016. Claro Puerto Rico, which serves every exchange in Puerto Rico, has been owned by the international telecommunications giant América Móvil since in 2007.
Qwest, MCI, and smaller competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) who had recently been allowed to offer local service within US West's service area (as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) complained to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that US West was uncooperative in releasing their owned lines to these new companies.
In 2008, Verizon sold its operations in northern New England to FairPoint Communications; In 2011, Qwest was acquired by CenturyLink, which subsequently changed its name to Lumen Technologies in 2020. In 2010, Verizon sold its West Virginia Bell operating company (along with much of its former GTE operations) to Frontier Communications