Qwest Communications

Here’s the Qwest version in the same Ghost Corp style:

Ghost Corp Apparel — resurrecting iconic corporate ghosts.

Qwest Communications was one of the most recognizable telecommunications companies of the late 1990s and 2000s. Founded in 1996 by businessman Philip Anschutz and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Qwest built a massive fiber-optic network during the internet boom and quickly became a major player in long-distance telephone, data, and internet services. (Wikipedia)

The company’s biggest transformation came in 2000, when Qwest acquired US West, one of the original regional Bell companies created after the breakup of AT&T. The deal gave Qwest a huge local telephone business across much of the western United States and turned the relatively young company into a household name for millions of phone and internet customers.

Like many telecom companies born during the dot-com era, Qwest’s rise was fast, expensive, and complicated. The company spent years restructuring and reducing debt while continuing to provide telephone and broadband service across its western territory.

In 2011, CenturyLink acquired Qwest in a multibillion-dollar merger. The Qwest name was gradually replaced by CenturyLink, ending one of the more distinctive telecom brands of the early internet era. CenturyLink itself later became part of the company now known as Lumen Technologies.

Fifteen years from startup to disappearing corporate logo — practically a full lifetime in telecommunications.

Our Qwest collection celebrates the bold blue-and-green branding, the dial-up-to-broadband era, and a telecom name that once seemed permanently attached to phone bills, modems, and utility poles across the American West.