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A phone outage affecting CenturyLink customers in the North Plains area is expected to be repaired by 8 p.m. Monday, according to the county's 911 center.

Joe Nacchio's scheduled release from a halfway house in September will effectively mark the end of the legal tsunami that resulted from federal investigations of Denver-based Qwest more than a decade ago.

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." -Theodore Roosevelt It's mid-morning at the office.

That's what Comcast did with Minneapolis attorneys Richard Fuller and Charles Horowitz, who recently opened a new two-person law firm.

CenturyLink plans to lay off 51 employees in Hood River and close its call center there this summer, the company told employees this afternoon.

A Multnomah County judge managed to rain down bad news on both CenturyLink and the Oregonian editorial board today - upholding an incremental land-line phone tax proposed by former Mayor Sam Adams to help pay for police reforms put forward by the US Department of Justice.

Ptolemy Data Systems in Sheridan, Visionary Communications in Gillette, TCT of Basin, and Green House Data in Cheyenne are working together to establish Bighorn Fiber, the state's first Internet peering exchange.

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In the Money Talks blog, The World-Herald shares the latest in Nebraska business and development, with behind-the-scenes notes from our Money team.

The clock hits 6:34 a.m. at the Jansen home in northwest Omaha, and five 14-year-olds hustle out the door with backpacks to catch their bus.

The clock hits 6:34 a.m. at the Jansen home in northwest Omaha, and five 14-year-olds hustle out the door with backpacks to catch their bus.

Recently, I've had a string of run-ins with companies that have left me pondering that question.

BY KEN LITTLE STAFF WRITER Greene County's new "next generation" 911 communications system should be installed in about three weeks, county 911 Director Jerry Bird said Thursday.

The estimated $40 million to $50 million needed to build-out Longmont's high-speed broadband network may come in the form of private-activity bonds.

The Island Packet reports that Centurylink is appealing the contract saying it were never told about the county's planned E-911 upgrade.

The firm currently has a "hold" rating on the stock. Several other analysts have also recently commented on the stock.

Cyan, an emerging software-defined networking and packet-optical transport platform vendor, saw its initial public offer of 8 million shares of common stock, priced at $11 per share, open at $10.05 this morning on the New York Stock Exchange.

Declines in CenturyLink's legacy business drove revenues down by a little more than 2 percent, to $4.51 billion, but that was only slightly lower than analysts' estimates.

CenturyLink has announced it intends to connect 48,000 west Omaha homes and businesses to new 1Gbps fibre-optic architecture 'to create a more robust network'. Customers in the mooted deployment area are expected to receive the service by early-October 2013, and the company will evaluate factors such as positive community support, competitive ... (more)

State representatives say otherwise, and while tweaks are being made to the current budget plan -- it's set to go up for debate on the house floor Thursday.