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Qwest Settlement Cuts Telephone Rates by $16M, Expands DSL Service

November 7, 2008 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Qwest, which serves 260,000 telephone customers in Montana, has agreed to settle a five-year-old dispute over its rates and services by cutting rates $16 million a year and expanding high-speed Internet into 27 small towns.

“It’s been a long time coming,” said Public Service Commissioner Ken Toole, D-Helena, who filed a consumer complaint against the company two years ago that helped lead to the proposed settlement. “I’m pretty pleased with it. Overall, I think this is pretty significant.”

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