Long Distance: Qwest Connect

Qwest Connect Overview

Value Proposition

Long-distance connections are not just a means of communications but are a key step in the path to new ways to connect, to collaborate and to poise your business for next generation technology. Businesses that choose Qwest voice can depend on Qwest to provide reliable long distance and toll free service that will support them now and can transition to innovative Internet voice technologies when that next communications step is taken.

Description

Qwest Connect^® is a special offer for special customers. It offers high-volume domestic long distance, toll free, directory assistance, and conferencing users deeper discounts and better timing increments on Qwest domestic interstate long distance and toll free. A monthly minimum spend of $5,000 on QCC domestic long distance and toll free is required to initially qualify for Qwest Connect. To continue to qualify for Qwest Connect, the customer must maintain a spend of $5,000 or more on all of their contributing services.

In addition to aggressive long-distance rates, Qwest Connect offers volume discounts based on the Qwest domestic long distance, toll free, directory assistance, and conferencing usage charges after taxes have been deducted.

Qwest Connect Benefits

• Competitive domestic interstate long-distance and toll-free rates.
• Domestic voice billing increments of 6/6.
• Domestic long-distance and toll-free bulk rounding allowing calls to be rated to the third, and sometimes the fourth decimal point.
• Unique pricing per local access and transport area.
• Available across the nation and around the world, with meet-points in more than 200 foreign cities.
• Additional sliding interstate long-distance and toll-free volume discounts automatically applied, based on monthly Qwest domestic long distance, toll free, directory assistance, and conferencing usage charges, after taxes have been deducted.

Qwest Connect Can Include:

• International Toll Free
• Universal International Freephone Number (UIFN)
• worldcard^®
• Qwest^® IP Long Distance and Toll Free Services
• ATM (Domestic and International)
• Conferencing
• Dedicated Hosting
• Frame Relay (Domestic and International)
• Hosted IVR for Virtual Ports and for Minutes of Use (MOU)
• Intelligent Pre-Route
• Local Access
• Managed Web Hosting
• Metro Private Line
• Metro Optical Ethernet
• Private Line (Domestic and International)
• Private Routed Network
• Qwest iQ^® Networking^® (Domestic and International)
• Storage
• Anti-Virus/Anti Spam
• Disaster Recovery
• Integrated Management
• Intrusion Detection
• Domestic Network Diversity
• Qwest Local Access
• Managed Firewall VPN
• Qwest^® Managed IP Communications
• Perimeter Check
• Remote Access
• Select Advantage

Qwest Connect^® Voice Billing Increments

• 6/6 domestic
• 30/6 international excluding Mexico
• 60/60 Mexico

Qwest Connect Domestic Voice Pricing

There are 200 LATAs and six classes of pricing available per LATA, therefore, the long-distance pricing is on an individual case basis.

You may receive additional volume discounts on interstate domestic long distance and toll free based on your monthly Qwest domestic long distance, toll free, directory assistance, and conferencing usage charges after taxes have been deducted. There are six tiers of volume discounts available on the interstate long distance and toll free (see table below).

How Qwest Competes

Qwest Connect^® offers competitive domestic long-distance and toll-free pricing. In addition, other Qwest products can be used with Qwest Connect. Customer must have voice services to qualify for Qwest Connect.