Will CenturyTel Acquire Qwest and Become the Next Big Baby Bell?

CenturyTel and Qwest announced their intention to merge. Why is this such a big deal? Among other things, now means that suddenly a very small company wants to be big Suddenly a Baby Bell such as AT & T and Verizon. Will that work? First a little history. In 1984, the giant AT & T was offered by the U.S. government to a nation wide long-distance giant AT & T and seven Baby Bells, broke the local telephone service around the country Most large and medium cities Called. There Were Some smaller local telephone companies aussi Hundred in small markets around the country.In the middle of 1990 have begun to merge is seven. Today, AT & T and Verizon are the giant Baby Bells cover roughly half the U.S. market. Qwest is the third and smaller. It's still the same size when it AT & T was broken it was originally U.S. West drank before, over a decade, changed names and added long-distance calls. CenturyTel's what one of the very small local telephone companies, not a bigger baby Bell. They change their names now CenturyLink. About the name change is growing rapidly over the pair of them this year years.Last small company Embarq Acquired last, the nations fourth-largest local phone company. It was actually the Sprint local telephone business it spun off to them and changed its name to Embarq few years. Just as suddenly last summer, the merger, the fourth largest local telephone company CenturyTel of the country. So far they are handling it well. So what is the Embarq network into smaller markets around the U.S., the game has good.However Qwest, which is different. You are a Baby Bell. Sure, they are still small. Sure they do not like AT & T and Verizon mergers to expand and grow-through. Sure They Are Still the Same small company they were at the beginning. That they do not have their own wireless network. Theys resell Verizon Wireless. That they do not have their own TV company like AT & T or Verizon FiOS Uversa. Instead, they are the reselling of DIRECTV satellite TV service. However, they are still a major company, a Baby Bell. One of the biggest local phone companies in the country, offering service to major cities like Denver.Can CenturyTel, a smaller company to successfully take on this daunting task? That is the question we must ask ourselves. No one knows yet. All we can do about it look at the current market and a year well-founded suspicion. CenturyTel is not exactly like AT & T and Verizon. They do not operate their own wireless network or TV service. Then again, Qwest has not done this. These two companies really do look alike more than they now have five years ago.Perhaps Can this work. Perhaps they are not yet ready Growing through mergers. It is able to operate mobile service provider in the market with another. Could they continue to re-sell Verizon Wireless service. Or they could acquire wireless network. I do not believe in goal for arguments sake it is a wireless companies out there that make sense. Sprint. That they owned the company Embarq, before it spun off to different parts of this family are sorts.All together in the big bubbling pot Called The Changing Telecom Industry and they are cooking. It is possible in the merger with CenturyTel Could a wireless society, provided it is important to think going forward, be interested? There is no pressure to move quickly on, because its biggest competitor, tried the Cable Television Industry aussi reselling Sprint wireless and Sun failed they moved a few years will give us the problem ago.Going CenturyTel and cable TV companies like Comcast, Time Warner and Cox successfully into the business of wireless communications solutions Get? And if you want to own their own network or sell? These steps, however, are always a little prejudice. Today we must think about the current merger between CenturyTel and Qwest. Yes or no? This is the Qwest HAS question.Currently not grown in the past much of this problem is the years Will Be Better Deal for New Customers as shareholders and the stand-alone company? Is this a risk or a sure thing? Who benefits and who are injured, if at all? The debate continues over the next few months given to the approval or rejection IS ....