And again and again, MCI CEO Michael Capellas Michael Capellas has given Qwest the cold shoulder.
But the bad news for Qwest is that even if it wins, it loses.
And again and again, MCI CEO Michael Capellas has given Qwest the cold shoulder.
That is, until I stepped foot onto Qwest Field for the NFC Championship game.
But none of it rivaled the electricity at Qwest Field when the final whistle blew.
Anschutz laid extra fiber for himself and from these data highways formed Qwest Communications.
At the moment, Qwest's bid is considerably larger, and offers more cash to MCI's stockholders.
Qwest has said that it will withdraw its bid at midnight tonight if MCI doesn't respond.
But Qwest is likely to discover that it can't win on that front either.
In this effort Aaronson had a sharp consultant: Peter Geddis, who helped found Qwest.
The public perception of Qwest could change quickly from pugnacious scrapper to hopeless leper.
In this effort Aaronson had a sharp consultant: Peter Geddis, who had helped found Qwest.
One thing Qwest's persistence has achieved is driving up the price of a potential deal.
But Qwest Chief Executive Richard Notebaert may be trying to push back the tide.
What once looked like a long shot bid to shore up Qwest's faltering financials looks momentarily plausible.
After all, who wants to be holding the next Enron or WorldCom or Qwest in a portfolio?
But now, speculation has given way to a bidding war between Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications .
With its dedicated data network and almost unimaginable bandwidth, Qwest was a new sort of telecoms firm.
At the Montana fair, Qwest, a telecom company, invites fair-goers to audition to be in its commercials.
Others say Qwest is more likely to be the company getting acquired, either whole or in part.
Last month, in a further blaze of publicity, Qwest launched the world's first uncompressed Internet telephony service.
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MCI's board knows that, and it's probably one of the reasons they've shied away from partnering with Qwest.
"People are going to realize that Qwest is too weak, " says Standard and Poor's Research analyst Todd Rosenbluth.
Meanwhile, Notebaert still needs to pull something out of his hat in order to turn around Qwest's fortunes.
But Qwest badly needs a partner to prop it up, and Notebaert wouldn't give up without a fight.
In April it struck a three-year deal with Qwest, for undisclosed terms, to continue renting the Bells' lines.
Key to Qwest's takeover bid is the contention that a merger with MCI would lead to huge cost savings.
Ditech Communications, whose systems improve the clarity of phone conversations, once derived 47% of its sales from Qwest Communications.
Jack Grubman who was at Citibank at the time was raving about Qwest as an investment at the time.
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