NEW YORK — Alltel Corp., a wireless, local and long-distance telephone services provider, made a $6.1-billion unsolicited bid Tuesday to buy CenturyTel, which provides local telecommunications ...

Qwest is the Northwest's largest phone company, serving Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and many other communities across Oregon and Washington. The region's other big phone company, Verizon ...

CenturyTel is taking on a bigger piece of the waning landline market with its purchase of Qwest Communications, hoping that more market share will generate cost efficiencies. However, CenturyTel may ...

NEW YORK CenturyTel Inc., the country's fifth-largest local-phone company, said Thursday that it will buy Qwest Communications International Inc., the third-largest, in a stock swap worth $10.6 ...

Last Thursday, CenturyTel and Qwest announced plans for a merger that would make one of the largest operators of landlines in the country. The deal would be a tax-free, stock swap in which each share ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Qwest is the larger company in the deal with CenturyTel announced Thursday. Qwest has 40 percent more phone-line customers and more than twice the annual ...

CenturyTel Inc., the country's fifth-largest local-phone company, said Thursday that it will buy Qwest Communications International Inc., the third-largest, in a stock swap worth $10.6 billion to gain ...

CHICAGO — CenturyTel Inc. said Wednesday it might sell its wireless business and focus on building its rural local telephone operations, even as it fends off a $5.81-billion unsolicited takeover offer ...

In one of the largest telecommunications deals in years, CenturyTel, a provider of local phone and Internet services, said Thursday that it would acquire Qwest Communications in a $10.6 billion stock ...

Telecommunications carrier CenturyTel has agreed to buy Qwest Communications International for around US$10.6 billion in stock. The merged company will operate around 17 million phone lines and serve ...

CenturyTel Inc. said Thursday that it will buy Qwest Communications International Inc. in a stock swap worth $10.6 billion, creating a telecommunications giant serving customers in 37 states. The deal ...