CenturyLink Merger

Does this mean they have money to upgrade me and others in our area from dial up to DSL?
From Yahoo Finance.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- CenturyTel Inc., the country's fifth-largest local-phone company, said Thursday that it will buy Qwest Communications International Inc., the third-largest, in a stock swap worth $10.6 billion to gain the benefits of scale in a shrinking business.

The combination would have about 18 million phone lines serving customers in 37 states, but would still be dwarfed by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. It would be based at CenturyTel's headquarters in Monroe, La., rather than in Denver, where Qwest is based."
CenturyTel to buy Qwest in $10.6B stock swap - Yahoo! Finance

Dial up,

WHAT A PAIN!