You can go to the bank with the fact that not far down the road, you are going to start seeing telephone service degrading at an ever-increasing rate. Large-area service outages as well as localized (neighborhoods) will begin to occur on an almost daily basis. And who does this affect? Every customer and every business in fourteen states. Customers and businesses large and small. Government entities (federal, state and municipal). Anyone who depends on Qwest facilities (either through Qwest itself or through vendors that lease Qwest facilities) is at risk for service interruptions.