Qwest History

In 1995 Southern Pacific Telecom, a subsidiary of the Anschutz Company began offering limited long distance services and changed its name to Qwest Communications; then incorporated in 1996.

On June 24, 1997, Qwest made its initial public offereing (IPO) and began trading.
Qwest currently trades on the NYSE under the ticker Q.

Qwest Stock Splits
	Split Date	Ratio	Close Price
	24-Jun-1998	Two-for-one	$71.50
	24-May-1999	Two-for-one	$84.00

Qwest Acquistions
	Target Company	Completion Date	Exchange Rate	Cash-in-lieu Rate
	Phoenix Network, Inc.	30-Mar-1998	0.0218	$36.29
	LCI International, Inc.	05-Jun-1998	1.1661	$31.25
	Icon CMT Corp.	31-Dec-1998	0.3200	$50.00
*	U S West, Inc.	30-June-2000	1.72932	$54.25
*Note: the U S West acquisition did not include U S Media Group.

Additional Historical Information:

Historical Stock Lookup Qwest
Historical Stock Lookup US West
Dividend History Excel, PDF
Cost Basis Workbook PDF

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