Qwest 7 % Notes 2016-1.2.56 Stock Company Profile

Description

Qwest Corporation, an integrated communications company, provides communications services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. It offers Internet services that allow customers to connect to Internet through existing telephone lines or fiber-optic cables; private line services for directly connecting two or more sites; Ethernet services, including point-to-point and multi-point configurations that facilitate data transmissions in metropolitan areas and wide area networks, as well as to provide transmission services to wireless service providers; and video services, such as market, sell, and bill satellite digital television under the DIRECTV brand name. The company also provides local calling services that include various calling features and other services, such as call forwarding, caller identification, conference calling, voice mail, selective call ringing, and call waiting to the residential and business customers, as well as resale of voice services and the sale of unbundled network elements; switched access services to wireline and wireless service providers for the use of its facilities to originate and terminate their interstate and intrastate voice transmissions; integrated services digital network services; wide area network that enables local communications network to link to networks in remote locations; information technology services; and Verizon wireless services. As of December 31, 2015, it operated approximately 7.0 million access lines; and served approximately 3.5 million Internet subscribers. The company was incorporated in 1911 and is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. Qwest Corporation operates as a subsidiary of CenturyLink, Inc.