Your Qwest info is very wrong
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"Q had 14.5 million local access lines for consumers and businesses, including 4.8 million long-distance customers, and 1.7 million DSL broadband customers as of March 2006."
Current Events » in reply to re: The New York Times article from last December
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"Q had 14.5 million local access lines for consumers and businesses, including 4.8 million long-distance customers, and 1.7 million DSL broadband customers as of March 2006."