Qwest Corporation is a Bell Operating Company owned by CenturyLink. It was formerly called US WEST Communications, Inc. 1991-2000, and was also previously named Telephone Company and Telegraph Company Mountain from 1911 to 1991. These include the operations of former Malheur Bell, Northwestern Bell, and Pacific Northwest Bell as well.
This is one of two 22 original Bell Operating Companies (Frontier West Virginia others) that Baby Bell did not have in 1984.
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History
Mountain Bell
Denver Telephone Shipping Company
The recent Harvard graduate Frederick O. Vaille, and Henry R. Walcott, traveled to Denver and met a saloonkeeper, Sam Morgan, and together secured 161 customers, enough to guarantee his return to Boston to get a new phone franchise from American Bell Telephone Company..
When the franchise was secured, the wires were strung together, the boys were hired as operators, the switchboard was installed and the Denver Telephone Dispatch Company opened for business on 24 February 1879. The Denver exchange was the seventeenth in the country, opening just nine days after the Minneapolis exchange. Denver Rocky Mountain News reports that "Telephone Company adds new customers to the system every day."
Build a Colorado Phone Company
As soon as Denver Dispatch Company started to operate, Western Union's Edison Colorado Telephone Company started a competitive operation. Western Union also started a telephone company in Leadville.
The Edison company with its powerful transmitter is able to offer services to nearby cities such as Golden, Georgetown, Central City, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
Competitive warfare raged when Shipping Company acquired better transmitters and added Golden, Black Hawk, Georgetown, and Central City to their calling areas. When the American Bell Company won their patent infringement suit with Western Union, the Bell Company absorbed Western Union companies. In Denver, competition for local services was not available until 1997.
In 1880, Vaille sold two of his four franchise contracts back to American Bell, which sold them to Horace Tabor in Leadville. In January 1881, Vaille joined a group of Denver business leaders to form the Colorado Telephone Company. Denver Dispatch faded into history when Vaille sold the remaining two Bell contracts to the Colorado Phone Company. Henry Wolcott is president of Colorado Telephone, while Vaille remains general manager for three years.
Meanwhile, the Colorado Telephone Company began to grow, as a tense wire "boomer linemen" to farms and agricultural cities on flat land, and to quarries and mining towns in the mountains, and along the Colorado front span. The Colorado phone purchased the Leadville company in 1888.
Rocky Mountain Bell
The Denver Dispatch company was less than two years old when the Rocky Mountain Telephone Company started in Salt Lake City, Utah with fewer than 100 customers. With financial support from American Bell, The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company replaced Rocky Mountain Telephone in 1883. Rocky Mountain Bell immediately embarked on an aggressive campaign to buy virtually every small phone company in the region, and their immediate area of ​​operation covered almost all Utah, Montana , Idaho, and Wyoming.
The combination of too much money management, careless management, and logistical difficulties to cover a vast and sparsely populated area will eventually make Rocky Mountain Bell suffer financial problems.
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TelegraphThese business practices ceased in 1911 when the Colorado Phones, Tri-State Phones, and Rocky Mountain Bell merged to form the Company Telephone Company and Telegraph Company. . Vaille was well aware of the Rocky Mountain Bell problem and he insisted that the Colorado Phone Company manager took over most management positions in the Rocky Mountain Bell Company area. Vaille served as a Mountain States director until his death in 1920.
Mountain States Telephone & amp; Telegraph Building is maintained and listed on US National Register of Historic Places.
MST & amp; T generally did business as Mountain States Telephone until 1969, when the Bell System logo was just beginning to be used and the company started doing business as a Mountain Bell . The company provides telephone services in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Southern Idaho, Wyoming, and El Paso, around Texas. In addition, MST & amp; T acquired control of interest in Malheur Home Telephone Company in Oregon, better known as Malheur Bell. MST & amp; T operates Malheur Bell as a wholly owned independent subsidiary, an arrangement that continues through 2009.
Operation Mountain Bell in El Paso, Texas was sold to Southwestern Bell in 1982.
Prior to 1984, AT & T held 88.6% stake in Mountain Bell.
The use of the Mountain Bell name was recently reactivated by Unical Enterprises, which began producing phones under the name Mountain Bell bell in 2006. In addition, MountainBell.com domains are still active and scrolling to CenturyLink web pages.
From 1929 to 1984, the Mountain Bell headquarters were located at 931 14th Street in Denver, Colorado. As part of the company's extensive real estate savings efforts, the interior area of ​​the building was renovated in 2009 and 2010, along with the adjacent 930 building to accommodate employees vacating the rented space at Qwest headquarters in 1801 California St.
Northwestern Bell
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company serves the northern states of Southwestern Bell, including: Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.
Northwestern Bell used to be the Iowa Telephone Company, which was renamed Northwestern Bell in 1920. The company then absorbed operations such as Northwestern Telephone Exchange, Tri-State Telephone Company, Dakota Central Telephone Company, and Nebraska Telephone Company..
The Northwest Bell Headquarters is located at 1314 (DOTM) Douglas Street in Omaha, Nebraska. It remains incorporated in Iowa, however.
Pacific Northwest Bell
The Pacific Northwest Bell Company provides telephone service in the states of Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho.
Pacific Northwest Bell was made on July 1, 1961, when Bell's phone operations in northern Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state were separated from Pacific Telephone & Telegraph.
Prior to 1984, AT & amp; T holds 89.3% in the Pacific Northwest Bell.
Pacific Northwest Bell headquarters are at 1600 7th Avenue (also known as 1600 Bell Plaza), in Seattle, Washington. Post-Breakup
In 1984, Bell System was split into seven Regional Bell Operating Companies. U. SÃ, WEST, Inc. became the holding company for Mountain Bell, Northwestern Bell, and Pacific Northwest Bell.
Communications U S WEST
In 1988, U S WEST became the first Bell Bell to have different Bell Operating Companies running a business with one name. U S WEST Communications became the "d/b/a" name for Mountain Bell as well as Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell; However, the three companies remain legally separated. The three companies also started using the Western Communications logo S, which continued to incorporate the Bell symbol.
Bell Operating Companies merge
On January 1, 1991, UÃ, SÃ, WEST incorporated three operating companies. As part of the deal, Northwestern Bell and Pacific Bell folded into Mountain Bell Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph, a living company, renamed UÃ, SÃ, WEST Communications, Inc. on January 2, 1991.
U S WEST Communications was the first local telephone company to offer Caller ID service in 1991, nearly four years before other local telecommunications companies could do so. They were the first US telecommunications company to upgrade their PSTN into electronic switching before 1990 and they were the first to offer ISDN residential and business and then, DSL service to their customers in 1997.
UÃ, SÃ, WEST, since 1984, has sold telephone equipment under the name Northwestern Bell . In 1992, UÃ, SÃ, WEST provided Unical Enterprises, which has been producing mobile phones under the brand name "La Phone", the right to be the exclusive licensee for producing phones under the name Northwestern Bell, still manufactured under BELL Phones. by Northwestern Bell Phones brand.
Sell-off countryside
In 1993, U S WEST began selling unprofitable rural phone lines across its 14-state territory. It maintains a phone directory operation in the area it sells.
In 1993, Pacific Telecom agreed to buy 45 exchanges in Colorado serving 50,000 customers. Sales closed in 1994 and lines were added to Eagle Telecommunications. In 1995, he sold several exchanges in Fremont County, Idaho to Fremont Telcom (which FairPoint acquired in the 2000s). In the same year, Pacific Telecom gained more access points in Oregon and Washington. In 1996 and 1997, several S-West Communications exchanges in South Dakota were sold to Golden West Telecommunications. In 1996, Golden West gained an exchange in Winner, Murdo, Burke, Bonesteel, Marion, and Reliance; in 1997, he acquired lines in Clearfield, Gregory, Lesterville, and Witten. Sales include 8,500 access points. The obtained line was then added to Vivian subsidiary, Golden West.
In 1999, U S WEST announced plans to sell 530,000 access points in most of the countryside to an independent company of Citizens Communications for $ 1.65 billion. Sales will not include the Dex U S WEST directory in these areas. Transactions remain incomplete before 2000.
Acquisition by Qwest
In 2000, Qwest Communications International acquired UÃ, SÃ, WEST in a cruel takeover. At that time, UÃ, SÃ, WEST was trying to acquire Global Crossing, and rejected the takeover of Qwest. Qwest is a much smaller company in terms of employees and market capitalization when gaining control of the Regional Bell Operating Company. Since UÃ, SÃ, WEST shares traded at very high prices during the dot-com bubble, Qwest was able to buy a larger company, and the Bell Operating Company changed its name to Qwest Corporation .
In 2001, Qwest, which acquired U S WEST in 2000, suspended the sale of rural landlines agreed in 1999 because Citizens refused to complete the transaction.
On December 14, 2009, Qwest Corporation absorbed the operations of its old subsidiary, Malheur Bell.
Acquisition by CenturyLink
On April 1, 2011, CenturyLink completed the Qwest acquisition. At that time, Qwest Corporation became a subsidiary of CenturyLink and began doing business as CenturyLink QC effective August 8, 2011. The merger is an exchange reunion acquired by Pacific Telecom in the 1990s that has been separated from US WEST Communications.
Since being acquired by CenturyLink, Qwest Corporation has issued bonds traded on the New York Stock Exchange under CTQ and CTW tickers.
Qwest Corporation is one of two original Bell Operating Companies owned by a company that was not founded in 1983 as Baby Bell. The other is Frontier West Virginia.
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Headquarters
CenturyLink QC is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. It maintains offices in major cities across the United States.
See also
- Northwestern Bell
- Pacific Northwest Bell
References
External links
- CenturyLink homepage
- Qwest homepage
- FCC Info: Qwest Corporation
- Malheur Bell History
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