Qwest Provides Important Resources for Iowa Flood Victims

Emergency Customer Care Center Now Open to Help
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa--(Business Wire)--
Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) today announced the opening of a
center to help flood victims in their recovery efforts in Cedar
Rapids. The center will have Qwest associates on hand to assist with
any communications needs.

Phones are available for free calling along with high-speed
Internet access. Free corded phones will also be given out to those
who are still without power. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at 615 3rd Ave. SE in Cedar Rapids.

Qwest has extensive disaster preparedness plans in place and has
been proactive in moving at-risk equipment and responding quickly to
the flooding. That quick work kept most customers with service during
the flooding.

"The employees at Qwest have been very responsive to the requests
from the public safety community and the businesses affected by the
flooding within the state of Iowa. Based on the comments we have
heard, the customer service we have received from Qwest has been
excellent," said Barbara Vos, Iowa E-911 program manager for Iowa
Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Qwest technicians from Iowa and several other states have been
working around the clock. Those technicians were able to keep Qwest's
critical services intact and are helping with any recovery
needs. Emergency 911 service was not impacted.

All services have been maintained with only isolated
outages. Qwest continues to offer free Call Forwarding to customers in
Iowa who are impacted due to damages from the flooding. Call
Forwarding enables customers to have calls automatically forwarded to
another phone number. Qwest customers who have been impacted can call
1-800-573-1311 to set up Call Forwarding free of charge.

About Qwest

Qwest offers a powerful combination of award-winning broadband,
video and voice solutions for residential customers, businesses and
government agencies. Customers coast to coast turn to Qwest's
industry-leading national fiber optic network to meet their evolving
communications and entertainment needs. Qwest employees are the
driving force behind the company's nationally recognized Spirit of
Service. Qwest is a participant in Networx, the largest communications
services contract in the world, to provide innovative voice, data and
video services, and is recognized as a leader in the network services
market by a leading technology industry analyst firm. For more
information on Qwest please visit www.qwest.com. For information about
the products and services Qwest is offering in the Networx contract,
visit www.gsanetworx.com.

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of Qwest Communications International Inc. in the U.S. and certain
other countries.

Qwest Communications
Kara Neuverth, 402-319-3336
kara.neuverth@qwest.com

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