Highlights
Serves 784,000 wireless customers, 1.7 million DSL customers, 4.8 million long distance customers.
Maintains 156,000 route miles of fiber optic network capacity.
Qwest Communications, which owned a digital microwave system, formed in 1996 when it was acquired by Southern Pacific Telecommunications Company, which ran a fiber-optic cable network. The combined companies took the Qwest name and doubled in size in June 2000 by merging with US West. Today, Qwest provides voice, Internet, data, and video services to consumer, government, and business customers in 14 western and Midwestern U.S. states.