[olug] OT: again: Anyone ever hear of Centurytel I mean Centrurylink?

[Kevin D. Snodgrass]

--- On Thu, 6/10/10, cbird.omaha at gmail.com <cbird.omaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Word in the Pops and under the
> manhole covers, is that Qwest is being bought out by them.

Read about it at the Denver comPost:

Qwest's acquirer plans to keep decisions local
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_14964103

> Also, rumored that FIOS is coming with it, on the roadmap
> that is.

They seem to be big into that.  High speed internet for $14.95/mo.

> Gossip I've heard, does anyone know more about this?
> 
> Who needs celeb gossip when we have nerdy telco gossip???

Been busy with the cosmology gossip (are super massive black holes just regular black holes that ate too much?) and Huskers-moving-to-Big10(11, now 12) land.  Now Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St. and those pesky Iowegians can't run away... :-)

Kevin D. Snodgrass