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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Qwest Communications International may trade its western twang for a southern drawl next year. CenturyTel Inc., a Louisiana phone company, plans to buy the larger Qwest for $10.5 billion in stock, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CenturyTel, renamed to CenturyLink in 2009, is a telecommunications provider offering high-speed Internet, email and VoIP services to residential and business customers. When you sign up your company ...

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 ...

Denver-based Qwest Communications, the third-largest local phone service provider in the country, is getting acquired by CenturyTel, a smaller rural operator, in a $10.6 billion stock swap announced ...