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I lived in Denver from 1981 until 2000 and twice in my time there, worked for either US West as a small business sales consultant and for US West Cellular as a technician. If anyone notices or cares, I've added a significant amount of content that I learned both from personal experience and from keeping an extremely (almost neurotic)eye on the company throughout its sometimes tumultuous history. I also added a lot of it because I felt that some of the information was either inaccurate or extremely vague. For example, US West was hostiley taken over by Qwest even though Qwest now denies this. [1]. Also Qwest had been having SIGNIFICANT problems obtaining cooperation from U S West in various enter-to-market business dealings and Qwest and other carries complained loudly during much of hte late 1990s about this to the FCC and in the press. There was definitely a lot of corporate mudslinging that went on afterwards and questionable professionalism when the change-over happened. I am open to responding to anything I've written in this talk page.
Also, I think this page should be moved to US West Communications
It has been 5 years since I wrote this article and now after having been involved in the wiki community for as long as I have; I acknowledge this article is horribly written and not at all up to wiki standards. Julienpdx ( talk) 22:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
The result of the debate was move. — Nightst a llion (?) 08:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Why is this page US West (phone company) not US West? I can't think of any reason that it needs (phone company) in the title, especially since the exact name (US West) redirects here. Cacophony 18:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I realy don't appreciate these commands from people using wiki codes to make them sound so official. This article needs to stay where it is, redirecting it to Qwest is misleading and inapprporiate. I did not spend hours writing this article to have people continue to change its direction. At the top of this article, it says the new company is Qwest and it says so even in the body of the article. YOU please do not modify!-- Julien Deveraux 05:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no move performed, consensus. Teke ( talk) 05:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
US West → U S West — The correct legal name of the company was U S West, not US West as the title of the article implies. This article already exists; however, it redirects to the US West article; however, all content on that article should be moved to U S West. KansasCity 05:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC) copied from WP:RM Bobblehead 06:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
This article has some serious issues that need work. Among them I see:
Now, of course, the examples given certainly aren't the only instances of each problem (just examples). I'll try to help when I can. / Blaxthos 03:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
In a recent edit, an editor made the statement "U S WEST was never renamed Qwest; it was legally absorbed into Qwest". At the time of the Qwest Communications International Inc./US West, Inc. merger, the surviving legal entity was US West, Inc. Qwest Communications International Inc. was dissolved as a legal entity, then US West, Inc. immediately filed documents with the Delaware Corporation Commission to change its name to Qwest Communications International, Inc. Pre merger, Qwest was traded on the NASDAQ and USW was traded on the NYSE. By keeping USW as the surviving legal entity, the merged company could keep its NYSE listing. (In addition to changing its name, USW changed it's NYSE stock ticker to "Q", something it couldn't have done if QCII had survived as a legal entity because all NASDAQ tickers are four characters.) If the editor's statement quoted above were true (that "USW was legally absorbed into Qwest") then the merged company would have had to keep pre-merger Qwest's NASDAQ listing and its NASDAQ stock ticker of QWST. If U S West, Inc. had legally ceased to exist, the NYSE listing would have gone away with it. Ch Th Jo ( talk) 19:32, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
There is no article on the effort to merge Global Crossing with USWest.
That effort was even more scandalous in hindsight than the loaning of money to Qwest to "merge" with USWest.
The stock valuation history tells part of the story.
One party has since endeavoured to be indentified as a philanthropist using monies gained through the "merger" which left stockholders empty-handed.
156.57.115.173 ( talk) 23:07, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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I lived in Denver from 1981 until 2000 and twice in my time there, worked for either US West as a small business sales consultant and for US West Cellular as a technician. If anyone notices or cares, I've added a significant amount of content that I learned both from personal experience and from keeping an extremely (almost neurotic)eye on the company throughout its sometimes tumultuous history. I also added a lot of it because I felt that some of the information was either inaccurate or extremely vague. For example, US West was hostiley taken over by Qwest even though Qwest now denies this. [1]. Also Qwest had been having SIGNIFICANT problems obtaining cooperation from U S West in various enter-to-market business dealings and Qwest and other carries complained loudly during much of hte late 1990s about this to the FCC and in the press. There was definitely a lot of corporate mudslinging that went on afterwards and questionable professionalism when the change-over happened. I am open to responding to anything I've written in this talk page.
Also, I think this page should be moved to US West Communications
It has been 5 years since I wrote this article and now after having been involved in the wiki community for as long as I have; I acknowledge this article is horribly written and not at all up to wiki standards. Julienpdx ( talk) 22:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
The result of the debate was move. — Nightst a llion (?) 08:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Why is this page US West (phone company) not US West? I can't think of any reason that it needs (phone company) in the title, especially since the exact name (US West) redirects here. Cacophony 18:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I realy don't appreciate these commands from people using wiki codes to make them sound so official. This article needs to stay where it is, redirecting it to Qwest is misleading and inapprporiate. I did not spend hours writing this article to have people continue to change its direction. At the top of this article, it says the new company is Qwest and it says so even in the body of the article. YOU please do not modify!-- Julien Deveraux 05:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was no move performed, consensus. Teke ( talk) 05:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
US West → U S West — The correct legal name of the company was U S West, not US West as the title of the article implies. This article already exists; however, it redirects to the US West article; however, all content on that article should be moved to U S West. KansasCity 05:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC) copied from WP:RM Bobblehead 06:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
This article has some serious issues that need work. Among them I see:
Now, of course, the examples given certainly aren't the only instances of each problem (just examples). I'll try to help when I can. / Blaxthos 03:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
In a recent edit, an editor made the statement "U S WEST was never renamed Qwest; it was legally absorbed into Qwest". At the time of the Qwest Communications International Inc./US West, Inc. merger, the surviving legal entity was US West, Inc. Qwest Communications International Inc. was dissolved as a legal entity, then US West, Inc. immediately filed documents with the Delaware Corporation Commission to change its name to Qwest Communications International, Inc. Pre merger, Qwest was traded on the NASDAQ and USW was traded on the NYSE. By keeping USW as the surviving legal entity, the merged company could keep its NYSE listing. (In addition to changing its name, USW changed it's NYSE stock ticker to "Q", something it couldn't have done if QCII had survived as a legal entity because all NASDAQ tickers are four characters.) If the editor's statement quoted above were true (that "USW was legally absorbed into Qwest") then the merged company would have had to keep pre-merger Qwest's NASDAQ listing and its NASDAQ stock ticker of QWST. If U S West, Inc. had legally ceased to exist, the NYSE listing would have gone away with it. Ch Th Jo ( talk) 19:32, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
There is no article on the effort to merge Global Crossing with USWest.
That effort was even more scandalous in hindsight than the loaning of money to Qwest to "merge" with USWest.
The stock valuation history tells part of the story.
One party has since endeavoured to be indentified as a philanthropist using monies gained through the "merger" which left stockholders empty-handed.
156.57.115.173 ( talk) 23:07, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
kg frktwthuuuurgrwfrrgrefyetj the best eryio 2409:4063:6E87:B1AC:0:0:6709:BE07 ( talk) 07:56, 24 January 2024 (UTC)