Qwest lights up Verizon offerings
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Jul 31st 2008 at 5:21PM
Hey, Qwest customers, ever hear of Verizon? No? Good, because your landline operator would just love to facilitate that little introduction for you. Following news earlier in the year that Qwest would be euthanizing its Sprint-based MVNO in favor of just simply reselling Verizon-branded equipment through its own channels, news has spread that the goods are now available from Qwest's kiosks, retail locations, and telesales line. For the time being, legacy Qwest Wireless subscribers can soldier on if they so choose, but the operator intends to put on the full-court press to get people converted by offering to waive the termination fee (golly, how very kind of them) and hooking up special deals.
Filed under: Verizon Wireless
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joseph Singer @ Jul 31st 2008 6:43PM
When is Verizon going to actually buy Qwest. Everyone knows that Qwest pretty much doesn't exist anymore anyway since they've sold all their assets.
BRANDON @ Jul 31st 2008 10:51PM
one buyout at a time. alltell .....quest .....sprint .... what are we going to to tonight Brain?...The same thing we do every night Pinky.....Try to take over the WORLD!!
dcny @ Jul 31st 2008 11:18PM
Just give them until LTE is out then we'll have Vodafone but first they got to buy Alltel, Qwest, then Sprint then get LTE running then Vodafone buys Verizon or Verizon Wireless and finally Vodafone USA
dcny @ Jul 31st 2008 11:21PM
or we give them until LTE is out then we'll have Good old At&t back as the only phone company but first they got to buy Alltel, Qwest, then Sprint then get LTE running then Verizon and At&t merge and Good ol Ma Bell is back
Numz @ Aug 2nd 2008 2:09AM
You guys almost make it sound like its a good thing that verizon buys out everyone. Don't get me wrong, I like verizon wireless, I've been with them for 4 years but once everyone is out of the way they can raise their prices cause they don't have any competition and we have a monopoly.
Scott Cheonast @ Aug 20th 2008 11:48PM
I've been pressing Qwest to tell me how it advantages me to stick w/ Qwest rather than just switch over to Verizon when my two-year contract ends in January 09. Amazing to hear the nonresponses: We don't know yet, but there are bound to be good reasons. Nothing has been decided. Please be patient. Wait until October. When I signed up for Qwest some years back, the first time, I was allowed to break the cost of my cell phone into three payments, each billed; apparently Verizon will offer no such break. So: Can anybody tell me why I should stick w/ Qwest? Switch out altogether to, say, AT&T or T-Mobile? --What a crock Qwest is stirring up.
Pony @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:02AM
Buy out Buy out Buy. Has anyone heard of the FCC.... Good because, and feel free to correct me if I am wrong unless all you have is rants and raves about corruption in organizations or politics, but do they(the FCC) not have to approve such buy outs and is it not possible that it would not be aproved to make of these 'seemlessly easy and inevitable',scarcasm,,,and inproper punctuation and written grammar,,, purchases for just the reason to avoid monopolies.... as i scratch my head trying to remember if monopolies have ever occured in the past and been broken up.