[salreus]

I work for Qwest long distance. Which BTW is different that Qwest local. But it is still just one company. Anyway, I can assure you that you won't be able to get the infomation you want until it is publically released. Trust me, with the amount of insider trading education we go throught, Qwest is all about making sure they don't get into trouble again. If you think about it, if just Qwest or VZ knew when the contracts were going to be over or switched, it could provide an unfair advantage and could result in stock prices. I agree with you that there are people at Qwest and people at VZ that do know when the change over is going to take place, but I assure you that they won't be giving you or anyone else that infomation for the reasons I gave above. When it is giving out in a press release is when everyone will know. The person from Qwest you talked to wasn't just holding the info from you they just don't have it. I don't have it either. To be honest, the outside world will know before we as employees will know. Info is usually posted in the denver post and other outlets first, then later that day or the next day, a broadcast email is sent out to the employees telling us the same thing.

And if I am not mistaken, Qwest doesn't actually have a wirless service anymore. A few years ago they had to adjust the company and they sold off their yellow pages and also sold off the wireless service. So the phone you have is just branded Qwest. I belive it is a sprint serivce branded Qwest. I don't doubt that Qwest is going to make it adventagous for the customers when they convert the wirless service from Sprint to VZ. How else would they be able to retain you as a customer? If they didn't treat you nice then you would just leave and pick VZ or Sprint as a provider instead.