Cisco Systems awarded Qwest its Customer Satisfaction Excellence award, or the "Gold Star" rating, the highest distinction a partner can achieve within the Cisco Channel Partner Program.
Nortel Networks rated the Qwest customer premise equipment (CPE) program as “outstanding” in its Elite Partner Performance Assessment Program.
Genesys, the world's #1 contact center software provider, has recognized Qwest as the Managed Services Partner of the Year for its leading contact center suite of services which includes QWCC, EZ Route and QRouting.
Forrester Research placed Qwest best for overall 2006 strategic plans, tied for first on offering the most aggressive prices, and second for operational support systems in February 2006.
Qwest iQ Networking™ received the "Best Value" award for wide-area networking (WAN) solutions. Network Computing determined Qwest's solution had "excellent reliability, a good services offering and, without a doubt, the best price...Qwest iQ Networking™ should be on anyone's shortlist." Network Computing, 8/4/05
Qwest won the 2006 Innovation Award from NADO in September 2006.
Qwest was awarded the Minority Business Advocate of the Year by Minority Enterprise and Education Development (2005).
The American Red Cross awarded Qwest with its prestigious Circle of Humanitarians Award in November 2006.
HISPANIC Magazine voted Qwest on of the "Top 25 Places for Minorities to Find Opportunity for Advancement" in its April 2006 issue.
www.irs.gov, designed and hosted by Qwest, ranks #1 on the Lycos 50 and Google search rankings at tax time. Throughout the year, it ranks in the top 50, often ahead of "Britney Spears," "Harry Potter," and "Star Wars" as search terms.