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Founded in [[1996]] by [[Philip Anschutz]], Qwest began in a very unconventional way. Anschutz, who owned the Southern Pacific Railroad at the time, began installing the first all-digital, fiber-optic infrastructure along his railroad lines and connecting them into central junctions in strategic locations to serve businesses with high-speed data and T1 services. In 1998, the Southern Pacific Railroad was merged into the Union Pacific, in which Qwest gained access to UP's railroad lines to lay fiber-optic cable for its telecom network.
Qwest Communications grew aggressively, acquiring internet service provider SuperNet in [[1997]], followed by the acquisition of [[LCI]], a low cost long distance carrier (located in [[Dublin, Ohio|Dublin]], [[Ohio]] and [[McLean, Virginia|McLean]], [[Virginia]]) in [[1998]], and followed again by the acquisition of Icon CMT, a web hosting provider, also in [[1998]]. This launched Qwest as not only a provider of high speed data to the niche market of corporate customers, but also a quick-growing residential and business long distance customer base that it quickly merged into its data service.
[[Image:Uswest logo.png|thumb|right|USWEST Corporate Logo, 1984-2000]]
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