Poor Qwest Communications
At a time when Verizon
The business lag shows in Qwest's results. Phone line revenues are shrinking steadily, and the growth in data and video services can't quite keep up. In all, operating revenues in 2007 came in 1% below 2006. There are still 8.7 million phone subscribers under contract, but that's 7.7% fewer than last year. Broadband growth isn't keeping up with voice-line shrinkage. The fiber-line effort is necessary, but comes across as a Hail Mary from a company that is running out of options.
If you want to ride the data bandwidth wave without getting too bogged down by increasingly irrelevant voice lines, I'd suggest that you take a look at efficiency expert Akamai
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