Long-Term Debt and Revolving Promissory Notes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Long-Term Debt and Revolving Promissory Notes

Schedule of long-term debt, including unamortized discounts and premiums

			Successor
	Interest Rates	Maturities	December 31, 2012			December 31, 2011
			(Dollars in millions)
Qwest Communications International Inc.
Senior notes	7.125%	2018	$	800			2,650
Unamortized premiums				49			117
Qwest Capital Funding
Senior Notes	6.500% - 7.750%	2018 - 2031		981			981
Unamortized premiums, net				27			28
Qwest Corporation
Senior notes(1)	6.500% - 8.375%	2013 - 2052		7,386			7,829
Capital lease and other obligations	Various	Various		113			176
Unamortized premiums, net				127			320
Qwest Communications Company, LLC
Capital lease and other obligations	Various	Various		145			195
Total long-term debt				9,628			12,296
Less current maturities				(856	)		(117	)
Long-term debt, excluding current maturities			$	8,772			12,179

(1)

The $750 million of Qwest Corporation Notes due 2013 are floating rate notes, with rates that reset every three months. As of the most recent measurement date of December 17, 2012, the rate for these notes was 3.558%.

Schedule of aggregate maturities of the entity's long-term debt (excluding unamortized premiums, discounts, and other)

	(Dollars in millions)
2013	$	856
2014		687
2015		134
2016		243
2017		503
2018 and thereafter		7,002
Total long-term debt	$	9,425

Schedule of amount of gross interest expense, net of capitalized interest and interest expense-affiliates:

	Successor						Predecessor
	Year Ended December 31, 2012			Nine Months Ended December 31, 2011			Three Months Ended March 31, 2011			Year Ended December 31, 2010
	(Dollars in millions)
Interest expense:
Gross interest expense	$	637			495			232			1,057
Capitalized interest		(26	)		(9	)		(5	)		(18	)
Total interest expense	$	611			486			227			1,039
Interest expense—affiliates	$	144			—			—			—