CenturyLink decended from Qwest by purchase. Qwest descended from US West thanks to Philip Anschutz taking over US West in 2000. The now famous and convicted felon Joe Nacchio was picked by Anschutz to head Qwest but proceeded to pretty much run the organization into the ground. Nacchio was replaced in 2002 by Dick Notebaert, a past Ameritech & Tellabs CEO. Notebaert has been replaced (2007) by Ed Mueller who is another "Bell Head" CEO from the likes of Bell South, Pacific Bell & Ameritech.

The AzureusWiki site has recently branded Qwest as a bad ISP along with several others. The report can be found here. As reported, Qwest, based on internal policy, throttles certain subscriber data streams. In my opinion, you would be wise to take anything and everything coming out of Qwest with a grain of salt. As a passing comment, I don't understand how the Colorado PUC or Attorney Generals office can let Qwest misrepresent things to the degree they have.

A fiber link as in FTTH does not appear to be an option with CenturyLink. In this area (zip code 81416) there are lots of opportunities to provide fiber connectivity but I see little if any evidence such an option exists within CenturyLink. A like option was not available under Qwest so nothing has really changed that I can detect.

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