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In 2002, Qwest agreed to sell its directory operations, QwestDex, to private equity firms The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for $7 billion. The sale allowed Qwest to generate cash to fend off a bankruptcy filing to which it may have had to resort due to significant amounts of debt it had incurred since the collapse of the ...
Dex Media, Inc. Dex Media, Inc. was a print and interactive marketing company. It was formed in 2002 by a consortium led by The Carlyle Group to acquire the operations of QwestDex from Qwest Communications International. The company went public in 2004 and was acquired by R.H. Donnelley in 2006, which became DEX One in 2010.
Qwest Corporation is a Regional Bell Operating Company owned by Lumen Technologies. It was formerly named U S WEST Communications, Inc. from 1991 to 2000, and also formerly named Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, known as Mountain Bell from 1911 to 1991. It includes the former operations of Malheur Bell, Northwestern Bell and ...
Telecom carriers CenturyLink (CTL) and Qwest Communications (Q) have announced plans to get hitched, the latest merger in an ongoing consolidation trend among the smaller, regional phone companies.
The merger reunites directory operations formerly part of Ameritech in Illinois, Verizon, and Qwest, all of which haven't been under common ownership since the Bell System divestiture in 1983. See also. Dex Media - Company acquired in 2006; RR Donnelley - otherwise unrelated company founded by the father of Reuben H. Donnelley; References
Lumen Technologies, Inc. Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink and Qwest) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. The company is a member of the Fortune 500 [3] and has been on the S&P 500 index ...
A Regional Bell Operating Company ( RBOC) was a corporate entity created as result of the antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice against the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1974 ( United States v. AT&T) and settled in the Modification of Final Judgment on January 8, 1982. AT&T agreed to divest its local exchange ...
It also as renamed its directory "YP Real Yellow Pages". The sale made AT&T the last Bell System-related spin off to sell off its yellow pages business. Cincinnati Bell sold off CBD Media in 2002, Qwest sold Dex Media in 2002, SBC sold off Illinois directory operations to R.H. Donnelley in 2004, and Verizon sold Idearc Media in 2006.