The five year deal between the two companies will begin later this summer...
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PhoneArena on 5th May 2008 (via phonearena.com)
Qwest has talked to Verizon Wireless as part of a plan to revamp the way Qwest sells bundles of services, Verizon Communications Inc confirmed on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said his company has held talks with Qwest about a possible deal. Qwest said …
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CellPhonesZone on 1st Mar 2008 (via cellphoneszone.net)
Qwest Communications and Verizon Wireless just announced that they've signed a 5-year agreement for Qwest to market and sell Verizon Wireless service beginning this summer. Qwest customers will have access to the full line of Verizon Wireless handsets and devices, as well as high-speed broadband wireless services for e-mail, Internet access and multimedia services. Qwest
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DailyWireless on 5th May 2008 (via dailywireless.org)
Beginning today, Qwest has begun reselling Verizon Wireless services to its Denver residential customers. Qwest had partnered with Sprint in the past, but announced its switch to Verizon Wireless in May. Qwest said it will be contacting its existing ...
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PhoneScoop on 30th Jul 2008 (via phonescoop.com)
Qwest has started reselling Verizon Wireless voice and data services to its residential and business customers. In May, Qwest announced that it was dropping Sprint Nextel as its provider of wireless services in favor of Verizon Wireless. At that time, it was estimated that the move would cost Sprint about 860,000 customers. Qwest will start contacting its existing Qwest Wireless customers to switc
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FierceWireless on 30th Jul 2008 (via fiercewireless.com)
As I reported elsewhere, Qwest is looking to get out of it's MVNO deal with Sprint. Instead, they will be simply reselling Verizon Wireless service. Qwest customers with more than one service will be able to retain combined billing once Verizon Wireless and Qwest get their billing systems talking with one another. The obvious question that came from this: what's going to happen to the existing Qwe
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MobileWeblog on 7th May 2008 (via mobile-weblog.com)
Qwest and Verizon Wireless have signed an agreement whereby Qwest will sell Verizon Wireless's phones and services to its customers. Qwest's landline subscribers will have access to all of Verizon Wireless's phones, modems, voice and data services. They will ...
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PhoneScoop on 6th May 2008 (via phonescoop.com)
Qwest announced Monday that it had signed a five-year deal with Verizon Wireless to market and sell Verizon wireless services and handsets beginning this summer.
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NetworkWorld on 6th May 2008 (via networkworld.com)
Today Qwest Communications and Verizon Wireless have announced a new 5 year deal that will have Qwest selling Verizon's wireless services to Qwest's customers. Verizon services will be available from Qwest's retail locations, website, and call centers. Read the full story here.
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MobileBurn on 5th May 2008 (via MobileBurn.com)
It looks like Sprint just didn't have what Qwest wireless wanted from an MVNO network lease partner. Making good on previous speculation that Qwest was preparing to drop Sprint and sign up with Verizon Wireless, Qwest has announced that, come this summer, Big Red will be providing wireless airtime to Qwest's wireless subscribers. The move
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IntoMobile on 7th May 2008 (via intomobile.com)
Qwest Communications will stop reselling Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless service and move its subscribers to Verizon Wireless' network, Qwest said Monday.
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CellularNews on 6th May 2008 (via cellular-news.com)