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Qwest Communications International Inc. said Friday that it began an offer by its Qwest Corp. subsidiary to exchange privately placed outstanding 8.375 percent notes due in 2016 for newly registered 8.375 percent notes also due that year.
Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio says a federal judge should start from scratch in reconsidering his sentence for insider trading.
Fiber-optic network provider Qwest Communications International Inc. said Monday it will save about $100 million by stopping contributions to the pension plans of active managers and freezing their pay.
Qwest Communications International Inc. reported a 6 percent drop in third-quarter profit Wednesday as customers continue to give up traditional landline telephones.
Qwest Communications International Inc. is scheduled to report its third-quarter results on Wednesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
Qwest Communications will no longer give five top executives tens of thousands of dollars a year to pay for expenses.
Public Service Commission leaders are asking Qwest to take another look at a federal grant aimed at bringing broadband Internet to underserved areas like rural Montana.
The Department of Justice will let stand a federal court decision ordering a shorter prison sentence for ex-Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio, who was sentenced to six years for insider trading.
The Department of Justice will let stand a federal court decision ordering a shorter prison sentence for ex-Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio, sentenced to six years for insider trading.
An appeals court has ordered a new, shorter sentence for ex-Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio, saying his 6-year term for insider trading was too long.
Qwest Communications International Inc.'s second-quarter earnings rose 18 percent because of one-time tax savings, even as revenue continued to slide as customers abandon landline telephones, the phone company said Wednesday.
Qwest Communications International Inc. is scheduled to report second-quarter financial results on Wednesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
Qwest Communications International Inc. is doubling its top Internet download speeds in some areas to keep up with the offerings of cable companies.
Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio asked a judge Tuesday to decide in his favor in a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit, saying the company's stock plunge was the result of a telecommunications industry meltdown, not financial fraud.
Qwest Communications International Inc. on Monday said it is calling off the auction for its nationwide long-haul data and telephone network.
Four groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's appeal to the Supreme Court of his insider trading conviction.
First-quarter earnings at Qwest Communications International Inc. rose 37 percent, as the phone company was helped by cost-cutting and a lower tax rate.
Qwest Communications International Inc. is sticking to its earnings projection for the year.
Two years after his conviction, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio reported to a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to start a six-year sentence for insider trading while he appeals his conviction to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has turned down former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's plea to remain free during the appeal of his conviction for insider trading.
Qwest Communications International Inc. said Tuesday it expects its first-quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to top Wall Street expectations, but sales will likely fall below estimates.
Former Qwest Chief Executive Joseph Nacchio is still trying to put off the day he must report to prison.
A judge has ordered former Qwest Chief Executive Joseph Nacchio to report to prison by noon April 14 to start a six-year sentence on his insider trading conviction.
A federal judge says former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio doesn't have to report to prison on Monday as scheduled because his lawyers plans to ask the Supreme Court on Friday to review his insider-trading conviction.
Court documents say former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio may have skin cancer and wants to delay the start of his prison term for insider trading until doctors determine whether he needs surgery.
Glenn Greenwald | Those privacy-hating Chinese Communist tyrantsAssociated Press, yesterday: Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of "severe retaliation" if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday. Sen.
Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives has joined Senate Democrats in embracing a Republican-orchestrated proposal to provide telecommunications firms that complied with Bush Administration warrantless wiretaps with retroactive immunity.
Home owners frustrated after Beechwood meetingHome owners vented their frustration at the administrators of collapsed building company Beechwood at their first meeting in Sydney, but many left the packed room upset by what they say was a lack of information
Endorse Net Neutrality NOW or Face Big Business Takeover of the InternetThe push by the big internet broadband access providers (telecoms - dsl & cable companies - cable modems), also called "last mile providers", for higher 2-tiered rates is back with vengeance, as evidenced in Federal Communications Commission (FCC), hearings touring the countr …
Qwest workers given urinal bags to save time on bathroom breaksThe manager distributed disposable urinal bags to 25 male field technicians, telling them not to waste time leaving a job site to search for a public bathroom.
Qwest Can't Get Wireless Working Because Macs Are "Practically An Obsolete System"When I received the modem and start up disc, none of the codes would work for my computer, nor my housemates. I called Qwest and was told that it was because I had a MacBook.
NSA Sought Data Before 9/11 Nacchio has said publicly that the NSA asked Qwest for customer records after the 2001 terrorist attacks. But the nature of the agency's request before 9/11 has not been disclosed previously.
Telecom companies refuse to reveal NSA wiretap details to CongressCiting legal concerns, telecommunications companies AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest have refused to reveal to Congress the nature of their involvement in the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
Top Spy Asked to Explain Pre-9/11 Spying AllegationsHouse Judiciary Chairman John Conyers is asking the Justice Department and the head of national intelligence to answer startling allegations that the National Security Agency's still-unconfirmed call records data mining program started 7 months before the terrorist attacks of 9/1 …
Telcos Respond to Spying Questions; AT&T Says Blame the GovernmentVerizon, Qwest and AT&T each responded in their own special ways to a request from a key Congressional committee about how they respond to government requests for information in letters made public on Monday.
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone FirmA former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Ag …
Former CEO Says US Punished Phone FirmA former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Ag …
Qwest CEO Not Alone in Alleging NSA Started Domestic Phone Record Program 7 Months Before 9/11Startling statements from former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's defense documents alleging the National Security Agency began building a massive call records database seven months before 9/11 aren't the only accusations that the controversial program predated the attacks of 9/11.
NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO ClaimsDid the NSA's massive call records database program pre-date the terrorist attacks of 9/11?
Qwest Punished by NSA for Non-Cooperation?According to a story from the Rocky Mountain news, Qwest has received retaliatory action from the NSA for refusing to cooperate in the Bush administration's domestic data-mining activity (i.e., spying on Americans).
Congress: We'll grill telecoms about illegal wiretappingCivil libertarians have reason for hope: Congress has opened an investigation into the way in which AT&T and other telecoms participated in a potentially illegal NSA wiretapping and Internet-tapping program.
Soaring Executive Pay Attacked by Shareholder ActivistsPeter Rose, a Seattle-based corporate chief executive offficer, took home $4.7 million last year. He thinks that's quite enough. "There's only so much crap you can buy," he told his hometown newspaper. His colleagues in corporate America seem not to agree.
Light Reading - Video - Qwest's Quest for Video - Telecom News AnalysisFinally, in the second quarter, Qwest says it will launch a broadband VOD service available to its customers who have PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems. The still nameless service will be co-branded with Microsoft Corp.
Cingular, Qwest blocking 'Free' CallsLooks like the empire is finding new ways to fight back — according to FreeConference.com, another rural-ISP free-calling operator, major carriers Cingular, Qwest and Sprint are actively blocking users trying to call FreeConference.com, claiming it might be a violation of those …
A new kind of digital divideBut even here in wired little Windom there's a new divide forming. Not one of access, but one of choice.
Kondracke denounced Qwest as "basically helping terrorists" for not giving customers' phone records to NSADoes anyone agree with this guy???
Acquisition of OnFiber Communications could save Qwest $25 million in access costs while extending its metro Ethernet network.Qwest Communications said Monday it will buy privately owned OnFiber in a $107 million deal that could help the Denver-based telecom company compete nationally with the giants.
DenverPost.com - Qwest's stand wins praiseQwest's reported refusal to give its customer calling records to the National Security Agency is winning the Denver-based phone company big fans online.
Qwest buys OnFiberQwest Communications is extending its out-of-region reach and revenue with the acquisition of metro Ethernet provider OnFiber Communications for $107 million.
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