CenturyLink sees Qwest merger as path to facilitate business, broadband growth

FierceTelecom (Mar 3 2011) Mobile Backhaul , Local , Regional

1. CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) knows that if it's going to stay competitive, it needs to break out of the old telecom regulated mentality. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Stewart Ewing, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary, outlined how CenturyLink will capitalize on broadband, business and even mobile backhaul services. This has been a change for a service that primarily had acted as a rural telephone company delivering mainly voice for much of its life--a strategy that's changed with its acquisitions of both Embarq and now the pending deal with Qwest. "I ... (Read Full Article)

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