Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) is a leader in broadband Internet-based data, voice, and image communications. Qwest has revenues of $18 to $18.4 billion a year and serves more than 30 million customers in the U.S. and abroad. It combines one of the world's fastest, most powerful global networks with a strong local exchange business that provides Qwest with 85% of its revenues and 90% of its profits. Qwest completes 240 million phone calls and carries 600 million e-mails daily just in its 14-state local phone service area.

Qwest also provides data and long-distance services to businesses in 27 cities outside that area. Locally and globally, Qwest offers a leading line-up of Web hosting services, managed solutions, high-speed Internet access, private networks, wireless data and other technologies and applications that are redefining global communications around the power and potential of the Internet