CenturyLink Apparently Rekindles Qwest Video Interest

The CenturyLink acquisition of Qwest is bound to have lots of implications for Qwest and Qwest's former customers. It appears one of the possible changes is a new interest on the part of the new company to provide video entertainment services, something Qwest had tested, before concluding it did not provide a strong-enough business case.

Qwest decided to rely on partner DirecTV to offer the video portion of a triple-play offering. But CenturyLink routinely offers video services to its customers, so thinking appears to have changed.

But Qwest executives now are reported to be talking about getting a state-level video franchise that would allow it to offer multichannel video services in Colorado, for example. Qwest also had tried to get such a franchise three years ago, but failed to get enough lawmakers to agree.

Qwest revisits video franchising with lawmakers - The Denver Post