3 posts and columns on Embarq

Netflix Hands Out Its ISP Report Cards. Clearwire, Please Get This One Signed by Your Parents.

in Media on January 27, 2011 at 11:01 am PT

Time Warner Cable and Comcast appear to do just fine in Reed Hastings’s rankings.

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CenturyTel to Buy Embarq for $40.42 Per Share in Stock

in News on October 27, 2008 at 4:30 am PT

CenturyTel (CTL) will acquire Embarq (EQ) for $11.6 billion in stock and assumption of debt. Combined, the two companies have two million broadband customers and eight million access lines. The deal should generate savings of $400 million in the first three years–notably in elimination of duplicate function, increased operational efficiency and reduced overhead. The combined entity does not yet have a name.

Dial *611 to Activate Your New CEO

in News on December 18, 2007 at 1:48 pm PT

Sprint Nextel ended its two-month search for a new chief executive today, offering Dan Hesse ousted CEO Gary Forsee’s old office. Hesse was formerly the CEO of Embarq, a local telco that Sprint spun off last year, and once ran AT&T’s mobile-phone business, so he’s certainly got the chops for the job. “His history in [...]