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by skulle16 1791 days ago
Great memory. When GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon, they had to spin out their Internet assets which became Genuity. Genuity was a large publicly traded ISP but ultimately went Ch 11 when Verizon did not buy them. Level 3 bought their assets, Qwest (now Lumen) bought Level 3 .

We always liked the name and did check on the mark.

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It's not really a great memory if you were working for one or more of them -- and I was.
Very cool and you would know. Lots of battle scars from that period in telecom.
Qwest became Centurylink then Lumen :).