Former Qwest Communications CEO Joe Nacchio's fate is in the hands of a nine-judge appellate court panel that is reviewing whether or not an expert witness should have been allowed to testify for the defense. According to publications that covered the beginning of the panel's review on Thursday, Nacchio's legal [...]

A nine-judge panel this Thursday will review an appellate court's earlier reversal of former Qwest Communications CEO Joe Nacchio's insider trading conviction. The appellate court ruled that the judge in the initial trial wrongfully prevented an expert witness for the defense from testifying. This week's larger judge panel (the initial panel had three judges) will either re-affirm [...]

The Federal Communications Commission may loosen the requirements for the types of information that telcos must provide as part of the agency's annual report program. The annual reports track information related to service outages, including outage durations and customer complaints, as well as capital expense information. The action could come [...]

The Federal Communications Commission is expected today to approve a significant reduction in the amount of information AT&T, Verizon and Qwest must report to the regulator about customer complaints, service quality and infrastructure investment.The move has raised the antennae of consumer groups that worry that everything from repair times to customer service will be [...]

The 20,000 or so Communications Workers of America members who work for Qwest Communications International are in the process of receiving ballots to vote on the new contract Qwest and CWA tentatively agreed to last month. Union members have until Sept. 30 to turn in their votes. The tentative deal [...]

With the Democratic National Convention in full swing, attendees are online with one of the most sophisticated communications networks ever installed for a single event.At the Pepsi Convention Center, Qwest installed a massive fiber-optic network and equipment that can handle 130 simultaneous video feeds for the media. AT&T, meanwhile, says [...]

Zayo Group, the Colorado fiber network operator that has acquired eight regional fiber networks within the last year or so, still sees the telecom industry M&A window as open and wouldn't be surprised if bigger telcos get back in the game. Zayo, headed by former executives from Level 3 Communications [...]

After recently naming a new chief operating officer, Qwest Communications International has initiated a handful of further executive changes under new COO Tom Richards. As part of the shuffle, Dan Yost will take charge of the telco's mass markets business operation, Teresa Taylor will assume the role of executive vice president for [...]

With labor turmoil (Qwest and it's unions have a 12:01 a.m. MT Sunday deadline for a new contract) and its battles with the FCC for forbearance from wholesale pricing regulations, the fact that Qwest is putting on its Sunday best for the upcoming Democratic National Convention this month in Denver [...]

The clock is ticking, and both Qwest and its unions are getting ready for a strike if negotiators don’t bring home a contract this weekend. The 20,000 members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who work for Qwest in 13 Western states are [...]

As expected, Communications Workers of America members employed by Denver-based Qwest Communications International voted Sunday to authorize union leadership to call a strike if ongoing negotiations fail to produce a new contract by 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 17. The CWA said about 93 percent of voting members approved the move [...]

Qwest has agreed to add $40 million to the kitty to finally settle a class-action securities lawsuit that’s hung around its corporate neck for the past seven years. An additional $5 million will be paid from insurance proceeds and will resolve former CEO Joe Nacchio and ex-CFO Robert Woodruff civil [...]

Sure they’ve stopped the clock, and both sides were back at the bargaining table yesterday until 10:30 p.m. last night, and they plan to go back to talks this morning, but the big question, after a week of stop-and-go neotiations, is: How long will the Communications Workers of America and [...]

With negotiations ongoing—and rocky--between Verizon, the CWA and IBEW, another big contract deadline with major issues is about to come due on the other side of the country. And, like their union members on the East Coast, Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers employed by Qwest [...]

Qwest Communications has promoted Tom Richards from executive vice president of its Business Markets Group to chief operating officer of the company, responsible for the daily operations of five divisions. Richards has been at Qwest since 2005 and also had previously worked at former Bell companies Ameritech and Bell Atlantic, [...]

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Talks aimed at averting a strike by 80,000 CWA and IBEW union workers at Verizon are continuing, but prospects for a deal before the Aug. 2 contract expiration look increasingly slim.Unity@Verizon reports that Verizon Mid-Atlantic district union negotiators feel the company and union are “still far apart on all critical [...]

With AT&T and Verizon delivering strong second quarters and Embarq poised to release its results after market close today, you knew there had to be some bad news for telcos on the horizon.It arrived in the form of a demand from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight [...]

The Federal Communications Commission denied Qwest Communications' highly controversial petition for forbearance from wholesale pricing regulation in four of its major markets. Yes, forbearance petitions are always controversial, but Qwest's bid for network access charge freedom in Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle and Phoenix drew intense debate, accusations and media coverage over several [...]

CWA and IBEW members overwhelmingly voted to approve a walkout if negotiations with Verizon don’t produce a deal by Aug. 2, reports Crain’s New York Business. Union leaders said 91 percent of the 65,000 East Coast Communications Workers of America union members were on board for a work action or [...]

Equipment vendor ADC Telecommunications said this week that its was seeing lower spending from carriers on copper and fiber connectivity products, which drove the company to lower its sales outlook for its fiscal year (ending Oct. 31) to between $1.5 billion and $1.52 billion, from $1.52 billion to $1.54 billion. Though fellow [...]

Qwest Communications currently has petitions requesting forbearance from pricing regulations in four markets in front of the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC must issue a ruling by July 26. But, one of the strange things about the forbearance process is that if the FCC does not rule on a particular request [...]

Qwest Communications, which had gone six years without offering a quarterly dividend until earlier this year, has declared its second straight dividend. The dividend of 8 cents per share will be payable Aug. 29 for shareholders of record as of Aug. 8. The telco is set to report its second [...]

The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to rule by July 26 on Qwest Communications' petitions for forbearance from wholesale rate regulation in Denver, Phoenix, Seattle and Minneapolis. However, the opposition to its requests continues to mount, especially in Colorado and Arizona. The Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel disputed Qwest's claim [...]

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