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Qwest Communications International will resell Verizon Wireless mobile service, ending a five-year deal with Sprint Nextel.

Customers of the regional landline carrier will be able to buy Verizon mobile service through Qwest, buy the services as a bundle and eventually be charged for all Qwest and Verizon services on a single bill, the companies announced Monday. Customers will also be able to choose “wireless only” and get a separate bill from Verizon. The offer will begin by the end of September.

Qwest got out of the mobile business in early 2004, selling its own CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) network to Verizon and making a deal to resell Sprint's service. Like the Verizon agreement announced Monday, that was a five-year deal. The Sprint arrangement will expire in February 2009, but there will be transition support for some time afterward, according to Qwest spokesman Tom McMahon.

Sprint, the nation's third-largest mobile operator behind AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, has come under fire recently for poor customer service. Qwest's decision comes at a bad time for Sprint, which has been shedding subscribers.

Qwest has been reselling Sprint service under its own brand as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), so it has only offered a subset of Sprint's handsets and service plans, McMahon said. With Verizon, it will resell everything the mobile operator offers, so Qwest customers will have more choices. Another advantage of the new deal is that Qwest and Verizon Wireless will work together on bidding for government and enterprise contracts, McMahon said.

Qwest provides fixed-line telecommunications and broadband service in 14 states, in addition to reselling DirecTV satellite video. In February, Qwest said it had about 824,000 wireless customers.

Sprint was not immediately available for comment.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton appeared on Monday on the “Late Show with David Letterman” to deliver the “Top 10″ reasons she loves America, which included the ability to order her trademark pantsuits around the clock on the Internet.

Clinton, who appeared on tape from North Carolina where she was campaigning ahead of the state's nominating primary on Tuesday, used the list to take a poke at Letterman with her No. 1 reason: “Apparently anyone can get a talk show.”

But Clinton steered away from any controversy in her list and made not even a mention of her lengthy, tight race with rival Democrat Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination. The Letterman segment will air on his show, which starts tonight at 11:30 p.m. EDT.

The “Top 10″ list is evening staple on Letterman's late night talk show on CBS. Obama appeared last week, delivering a “Top 10″ list of “Surprising Facts about Barack Obama.”

Here are Clinton's “Reasons Hillary Clinton Loves America:”

10. “We have more Dakotas than every other country combined.”

9. “Canadian bacon: soggy and chewy; American bacon: crisp and delicious!”

8. “Thanks to the Internet, I can order new pantsuits 24/7. There's your pantsuit joke, Dave. Are you happy now?”

7. “232 years and not one cookie shortage.”

6. “TiVo.”

5. “Did I mention the soup? Mmm, soup.”

4. “Did you know former President Teddy Roosevelt was an American?”

3. “Where else can you get a car painted for $29.95?”

2. “Is this the part where I say, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!'?”

1. “Apparently anyone can get a talk show.”

(Editing by Todd Eastham)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Nextel Corp. was silent about its future Monday as reports emerged that the company was considering spinning off or selling Nextel and that Deutsche Telekom AG was investigating a bid to buy the struggling wireless provider.

The Wall Street Journal, quoting unidentified people familiar with the situation, reported that deliberations between Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of No. 4 wireless company T-Mobile, and Sprint Nextel were at “a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away.”

Such a deal would catapult Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile wireless unit to the top spot in the U.S. market.

Sprint Nextel spokeswoman Leigh Horner said the company had no comment. The Overland Park, Kan.-based company’s shares rose 83 cents, or 10.5 percent, to close at $8.72.

Deutsche Telekom did not comment.

Sprint Nextel’s faltering stock price and the expected exodus of millions of subscribers this year have caused continued speculation about the company’s future.

Qwest Communications International Inc. announced Monday that it would stop reselling Sprint’s wireless service and switch to Verizon Wireless. As of the end of last year, Qwest contributed about 824,000 of Sprint’s 53.8 million subscribers.

Analysts have disagreed whether the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier is ripe for a takeover but have predicted it will begin selling parts of its operation to generate cash and make itself more agile.

Some analysts have speculated that Deutsche Telekom might consider buying Sprint to bulk up and prevent an escalation of flat-rate pricing in the industry.

But the two carriers’ technologies are incompatible, a challenge Sprint has already seen enough of in the merger with Nextel.

Jeff Kagan, an independent telecommunications analyst in Atlanta, said the two companies getting together would be much more complicated and difficult than a merger between two U.S. companies.

“Maybe Deutsche Telekom is sending up a few flags to learn what the market actually thinks about a possible deal,” Kagan said. “If too much resistance is felt they can simply walk away without a bloody nose. If however there is not much resistance, then it could get interesting.”

The Wall Street Journal also reported that Cyren Call, a McLean, Va., company founded by Nextel founder Morgan O’Brien, was trying to assemble a consortium of investors to acquire Nextel, saying it would be part of a plan to create a nationwide wireless network for public safety communications.

The newspaper reported that Sprint could choose to spin off Nextel into a separate company or just transition customers off Nextel’s network and onto Sprint’s.

Sprint has struggled since acquiring Nextel Communications Inc. in August 2005. In March, it announced it had lost 683,000 wireless subscribers with annual contracts and expected to lose another 1.2 million in the first quarter and a similar amount in the second quarter of 2008.

The sale of the Nextel-branded network, which has seen the largest number of customer defections, could happen if the government would allow such a merger, analysts said.

“In light of the way the current competitive landscape is likely to shape the way policy makers would look at the merger, our sense is that such a deal would be more likely than not to pass muster with the government,” Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analysts said in a note to investors on Monday.

Verizon Wireless and various U.S. cable providers, who need wireless in their fight with traditional telephone companies, have also long been named as potential Sprint buyers.

Sprint Nextel is the third-biggest provider of cell phone services in the U.S. and has a market capitalization of approximately $22 billion. AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless are the top two U.S. providers.

T-Mobile is No. 4 in the U.S. market, but the unit has proved key to Deutsche Telekom, given that just slightly more than 50 percent of its annual sales now come from markets outside of Germany, its home base. Last year, the company posted sales of $100.8 billion worldwide, including $29.8 billion from T-Mobile.

Deutsche Telekom wrapped up its $1.6 billion purchase of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. in February.

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NEW YORK - Qwest Communications International Inc. will stop reselling Sprint Nextel Corp.’s wireless service and move its subscribers to Verizon Wireless’ network, Qwest said Monday.

The move means Sprint, which is already struggling with a dwindling customer base, will lose more subscribers. Qwest contributed 824,000 to Sprint’s rolls of 53.8 million subscribers at the end of last year.

The news was released after the close of the stock market, on the same day as reports emerged that Deutsche Telekom AG, the parent of T-Mobile USA, was mulling a bid for Sprint and Sprint was considering spinning off Nextel.

Sprint shares rose 83 cents, or 11 percent, to close at $8.72.

Qwest said it had signed a five-year contract with Verizon Wireless that will take effect this summer. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Current wireless subscribers will receive a free, comparable Verizon Wireless handset, probably in the last three months of this year, said Qwest spokesman Robert Toevs.

Toevs said the Sprint deal “was not right for us.” With Verizon Wireless, Qwest will be able to sell wireless service not just to consumers, but to large corporate and government customers.

Qwest’s brand won’t be on the wireless service, as it has been under the Sprint partnership. But those who combine wireless service with a land line or Internet service can get one combined bill from Qwest.

Qwest has been reselling Sprint’s service 2004. Chief Executive Edward Mueller said it February that the company was looking at its options in the wireless space.

Denver-based Qwest is the primary telephone service provider in 14 mostly Western states and operates a nationwide fiber optics network.

Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. of New York and Vodafone Group PLC of Britain.

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Anyone with the remotest interest in ICT development will have noticed the battle raging at the “bottom of the pyramid,” where competing initiatives have been vying for the hearts, minds and dollars of schoolchildren and education ministries the developing world over. This particular battle is being largely fought by Intel and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), once partners but now sparring in opposite corners after months of wrangling led to an acrimonious split earlier this year.

Both companies believe that portable computing is the answer to addressing the digital divide and are willing to go as far as building low-cost laptops by the millions to prove it. OLPC first publicly announced its intentions in January 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte showed a simple, non-functioning mock-up of his “XO” device (also known as the $100 laptop) at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Intel presented a working version of its “Eduwise” laptop (also known as the Classmate) at the World Congress on Information Technology in Texas a year and a half later. A few months earlier, Kofi Annan famously broke the charging handle of the first iteration of OLPC during a press conference at the World Symposium on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia. It wasn't until the end of 2006 that the first OLPC laptops (albeit in beta and with a redesigned Kofi-proof charging handle) began rolling off the production lines.

High-profile initiatives such as these were unlikely to live in harmony for long, and sparks finally began to fly in May 2007, when Negroponte accused Intel of telling tales and frustrating and undermining the OLPC's work. Both sides traded words for two months until, in an amazing turnaround, they announced that they were to join forces in July. Intel became the latest arrival on the OLPC board, sitting alongside eleven other OLPC partners, a move that signaled both sides were willing to put their differences behind them and work together. Significantly, however, Intel continued work on its own laptop until OLPC– according to Intel– decided several months later that there was too much of a conflict of interest and demanded it drop the Classmate. For a project with the personal backing of the Intel chairman, this was never going to happen. It didn't.

There's no reason why the two initiatives couldn't have lived together, but– as is often the case– a mixture of economics, politics, competition, opinions, ego and jealously led us to where we are today. For some, OLPC doesn't stand a realistic chance against one of the industry's biggest hitters, while for others, their earlier decision not to offer a commercial version of the XO hurt them badly, as did their failure to hit their publicized $100 price tag. To add insult to injury, one of the hottest topics among the XO community right now is whether a Windows XP-driven XO would be a good idea. For a computing device built proudly on open standards, this is a pretty fundamental question.

What happened between Intel and OLPC is more commonplace than you'd expect. The difference here is that, thanks to an incessant demand for round-by-round updates and a very active blogging community, things have been largely played out in public. Ironically, if both initiatives went head-to-head in a commercial environment, we'd see it as healthy competition. Darwinian Law would apply, with the better product winning through and the inferior one forced to adapt or die. But this was never really a level playing field, let alone two commercial outfits vying for market share and acceptable levels of profitability. Unlike Intel, OLPC is a non-profit entity with a single, simple social mission. According to its Web site:

OLPC is not, at heart, a technology program, nor is the XO a product in any conventional sense of the word. OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end– an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community

Intel, on the other hand, is clearly a for-profit entity, and a highly successful one at that. However, its “World Ahead Program”– where the Classmate resides– falls under its Education Initiative, which is funded by the Intel Foundation and Intel. According to its Web site:

The Intel World Ahead Program aims to enhance lives by accelerating access to uncompromised technology for everyone, everywhere. Focused on developing communities, it integrates and extends our efforts to use technology to help people improve their lives, societies, and economies

Not a million miles apart, are they? Although the two initiatives have things in common, it's the differences that have sadly emerged dominant. In one corner is OLPC, the new kid on the block, the non-profit organization building a product on open standards, talking in the hundreds of thousands (minimum orders stand at 250,000 units). In the other corner we have Intel, the pioneering for-profit company building a machine based on proprietary technologies, talking about orders in the thousands (although it admits the need to sell literally millions of these things if it's to work).

Of course, children in Nigeria or Uruguay doesn't particularly care where their laptop comes from, what principles were applied in its design or development or who's right or wrong in the “battle of the paradigms.” All they want is an education, ideally aided by the occasional brush with computer technology in some shape or form.

Sometimes, we just need to remind ourselves of the bigger picture. And it doesn't get much bigger than this, whichever corner you're standing in.

Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, specializes in the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He combines over 22 years in IT with over 14 years experience living and working throughout Africa in countries including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. His vision is to empower others to create social change, and he does this by developing and providing tools to mostly grassroots organizations that seek to better use technology in their work.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc.’s stock took a beating Monday after Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover bid, but the punishment wasn’t as severe as many analysts anticipated because investors suspect the rivals eventually will renew their mating dance.

Although Microsoft has publicly indicated it will focus on measures besides buying Yahoo in its bid to make its Internet division profitable, several analysts predicted the software maker will revive its bid in the summer or fall if Yahoo can’t snap out of a two-year funk that exposed it to an unwanted takeover in the first place.

“Should the frustration of (Yahoo) shareholders come to a boil, we believe (Microsoft) could re-enter the picture, essentially playing the role of the white knight,” analyst David Hilal of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. wrote in a Friday research note.

With similar opinions reverberating through the stock market, Yahoo shares shed $4.30, or 15 percent, to close Monday at $24.37. That wiped out nearly half the gain they made since Microsoft made its bid Jan. 31. The drop left the Sunnyvale-based company’s market value about $12.5 billion below Microsoft’s last offer.

“I was expecting to see a more extreme reaction” to Microsoft’s withdrawn bid, Stanford Group analyst Clayton Moran said. “Microsoft is trying to make it seem like it’s not coming back (with another bid), but this somewhat muted reaction shows the market isn’t buying it.”

Meanwhile, Google Inc., whose dominance in online search triggered Microsoft’s bid, seems poised to benefit no matter how the talks go from here.

Microsoft ultimately offered $33 per share, only to be rebuffed over last weekend. Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, who still own a combined 9.7 percent of the company’s stock, flew to Seattle to demand $37 per share — a price Yahoo’s stock hasn’t reached in more than two years.

The insistence on a higher price prompted Microsoft Chief ExecutiveSteve Ballmer to yank his the offer off the table.

Yahoo’s stock price stood at $19.18 before Microsoft made its move.

Monday’s backlash was enough to turn up the heat on Yang and the rest of the Yahoo board, which unanimously rebuffed Microsoft. The unrest could lead to a rebellion at Yahoo’s still-unscheduled annual meeting, where shareholders could try to oust the board. Yahoo must hold the meeting by mid-July.

The blow to Yahoo’s stock also was cushioned by expectations that the company will soon announce it’s turning over some of its advertising space to Internet search leader Google Inc., whose technology yields higher profits from commercial links.

But many analysts think working with Google could be a mixed bag for Yahoo. While Google could boost Yahoo revenue by anywhere from $850 million to $1.6 billion annually, it might also hurt Yahoo by undercutting the appeal of its own ad platform.

An alliance between Google and Yahoo also would cause regulatory headaches because antitrust officials would to take a hard look at the partnership because the companies combined control more than 80 percent of the Internet’s search advertising market.

While analysts debated how Yahoo and Microsoft should proceed, most agreed Google will benefit from the aborted takeover attempt.

Unnerved by the prospect of its two biggest rivals joining forces, Google reached out to Yahoo to help thwart Microsoft’s bid.

Even if Google doesn’t end up selling ads on Yahoo’s heavily trafficked Web site, it has kept some of the Internet’s biggest services out of Microsoft’s clutches.

“We believe Google is a major winner given the failure of the Yahoo bid,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst George Askew wrote in a Monday note. “Google is well positioned to continue to gain market share, benefit from any Yahoo (advertising) deal, and exploit any ongoing chaos at Yahoo and Microsoft.”

Google shares gained $13.61, or 2.3 percent, to close at $594.90 Monday.

Time Warner Inc. also appears to be in a better negotiating position if it decides to sell its struggling AOL subsidiary, as many analysts anticipate.

Yahoo had been mulling a possible combination with AOL’s online operations as a defensive measure against Microsoft. Now, Microsoft may make a run at AOL if it’s interest in buying Yahoo is truly dead. And if Microsoft enters the picture, Google might offer to increase its 5 percent stake in AOL just to repel Microsoft.

A long list of Internet startups also could be in line for big windfalls if Microsoft and Yahoo step up their efforts to acquire more online weapons to challenge Google. And if Microsoft and Yahoo go shopping, Google has plenty of cash to get into bidding wars for potential takeover targets like Digg Inc., LinkedIn Corp. and Facebook Inc.

“Freed of one another, Yahoo and Microsoft are buyout prospectors: we would expect a rush-to-deal environment,” BMO Capital Markets analyst Leland Westerfield.

Most analysts believe Microsoft has to make some kind of bold move after its online division lost $745 million through the first nine months of the company’s fiscal year.

“Any notion of simply returning to the original, pre-Yahoo strategy is likely to be insufficiently defined and credible,” Bernstein Research analyst Charles Di Bona wrote in a Monday note.

In a mild surprise, Microsoft shares fell 16 cents to $29.08 Monday. Most analysts thought the stock would climb because investors had driven down the shares during the last three months on worries that a Yahoo takeover would turn into an expensive mess.

Despite the drop in Yahoo’s stock, Yang seemed thrilled to have maintained the independence that he and Filo started 14 years ago in a trailer while they were still graduate students at Stanford University.

“Has this experience changed us? Of course, it has,” Yang wrote in a blog posting on Yahoo’s Web site. “We’ve emerged a stronger, more focused company with an even greater sense of purpose.”

If he wants to hold on to the CEO job he took on 11 months ago, Yang probably will have to show his turnaround strategy is compelling enough to propel Yahoo’s stock beyond $33 per share within the next year.

Yang has promised a more sophisticated and far-flung ad network will accelerate Yahoo’s net revenue growth by at least 25 percent in 2009 and 2010, up from the recent pace of 12 percent increase.

But Yang’s credibility has been undermined by Yahoo’s repeated forecasts of better times ahead while the company’s profits steadily eroded during the past two years.

“We are not willing to give (Yahoo) the benefit of the doubt that they can make meaningful improvement over the next three years,” UBS analysts Benjamin Schachter, Heather Bellini and Abhey Lamba wrote in a joint research note.

If Yahoo stumbles, that could entice Microsoft to return with another takeover bid that would be more difficult to turn down.

Venture capitalist Todd Dagres of Spark Capital likened this approach to that of a crocodile. “Rather than try to eat its prey while it’s warm and tough, (Microsoft is) dragging it down to the bottom of the river, sticking it under a rock and eating it later when it’s cold and soft,” he said.

San Francisco - Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.

Morning events at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco featured reflections on the company's open source efforts, including the official rollout of the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS. Sun, said Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, is the world's largest open source company. But there have been bumps in the company's open source path, company officials recognized.

“I'm here to say that we've learned a lot about what to do and what not to do over the last several years,” said Ian Murdock, Sun vice president of developer and community marketing and former CTO of the Linux Foundation. Sun has even made a few mistakes, Murdock said.

Asked afterward which mistakes he was referring to, Murdock cited Sun's brush with controversy in establishing a separate community around the OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS). The system simplifies installation and integration with third-party systems. Murdock then characterized the ordeal as more of a transition than a mistake.

Sun is doing open source in a scale that has never been done before, he said.

Sun also had to cope with unrealistic expectations about how much time it would take to offer Java via open source under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0, a move made in November 2006.

“There was the expectation that it would be immediately carried into the universe,” Green said. But it has taken time to free up the bits and pieces of Java to make it available via open source, Green acknowledged.

Now, the Ubuntu Linux distribution includes OpenJDK, featuring open source Java, Green noted. This move announced last week means the open-sourcing is complete, he said.

Pondering the potential clash between open source and business interests, Marten Mickos, senior vice president of the Sun database group and former CEO of recent Sun acquisition MySQL, cited how some extensions to MySQL have not been made available to everyone.

For example, the company does not give away its MySQL Enterprise Monitor service, which helps diagnose and manage the database. “This is a tool that we give to paying customers only,” said Mickos. But the MySQL database is and always shall be free and open source, he said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The publisher of the controversial “Grand Theft Auto 4″ video game sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Monday, accusing it of pulling ads promoting the blockbuster without explanation.

The video game's publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. sued the transit authority in Manhattan federal court for violating its free speech and contractual rights, saying it pulled its posters within days of the ads first appearing on April 22.

Take Two accused the authority and its sales agent, Titan Outdoor LLC, of violating a $300,000 (150,000 pounds) ad campaign agreement that included running “Grand Theft Auto 4″ poster ads on the sides of buses and transit display spaces throughout the Chicago transit system scheduled for six weeks between April and June.

The suit seeks an order for the transit authority to run the ads as well as monetary damages of at least $300,000.

The advertisements were removed following a report by a Fox News affiliate that questioned why the ad was allowed to run after a wave of violent crimes in Chicago, the suit said.

Past “Grand Theft Auto” games have been criticized for depicting violence including beatings, carjackings, drive-by shootings, drunk driving and prostitution.

Representatives of the Chicago Transit Authority were not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Daniel Trotta and Todd Eastham)

T-Mobile has launched its third-generation UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City and plans to roll it out across major metropolitan areas through the year.

“The launch of our 3G network comes at a time when 3G phones and services are more affordable, capable and appealing to our consumer marketplace than ever before,” said Cole Brodman, chief development officer for T-Mobile USA. “We benefit not only from the economic scale of 3G, but also from the extensive commercial experience of 3G in our European markets.” He said T-Mobile USA will deliver a “rich portfolio of new and meaningful services to enrich our customers' lives.”

T-Mobile has yet to unveil any of the new services that will run on its network, however. Neither did it unveil any new phones that take advantage of 3G. T-Mobile offers four handsets — two Nokia models and two Samsung models — that run on the midspeed UMTS technology, but none of them have full Web browsers.

New Phone Months Away

In fact, PC World reports, users are forbidden from installing the Opera Mini browser on the phones. The phones automatically connect to the best available network, either the 3G network or the GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.

T-Mobile said a new phone capable of taking advantage of the speedy HSDPA technology will be released “in the coming months,” along with “new and compelling data-centric, all-in-one devices.”

One reason for the launch in New York ahead of fancy new phones or data services may be voice-quality issues. Sasha Segan, writing in PC Magazine, said T-Mobile has struggled with dropped calls and other quality issues due to the slim slice of spectrum it has for its current networks.

Doubling Spectrum

For its 3G network, T-Mobile is on a new spectrum known as AWS, “effectively doubling T-Mobile USA's spectrum position, and laying the foundation for the company's future growth,” the company said. T-Mobile added that it is working closely with the departments of Defense and Justice to make the AWS spectrum available.

Calls made on AWS won't impact T-Mobile's existing network, thus relieving pressure there, and the new network can handle many more calls per megahertz, thanks to UMTS's superior method of hooking up phones and cell towers.

In the U.S., T-Mobile runs on the 1,700-MHz spectrum, the only carrier in the world to do so, which means handset makers will have to tweak their models to work with T-Mobile's 3G network. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, i-Mate, and HTC have all expressed interest.

Rumors persist that a 3G version of Apple's iPhone will soon be released, but will continue to operate exclusively on AT&T's service. Some rumors indicated that prices for the new phone could be as low as $299, but Apple has yet to release any information on the new phones.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. phone company Qwest Communications International Inc and Verizon Wireless said on Monday they signed a five-year agreement for the landline provider to sell Verizon's mobile phone services.

Qwest said its residential customers will be able to choose Verizon Wireless service on its own, or as part of a “bundle” of home phone, Internet, video and wireless services.

Terms of the deal with Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc, were not disclosed.

Qwest said in February it was unhappy with its current arrangement to resell Sprint Nextel Corp services.

(Reporting by Ritsuko Ando; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)