Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Qwest Communications International
Inc. (the "Company"), hereby severally constitute and appoint Joseph P. Nacchio,
Robert S. Woodruff and Richard L. Smith,  and each of them singly,  our true and
lawful  attorneys,  with full power to them and each of them singly, to sign for
us in our names in the capacities  indicated  below,  a  Registration  Statement
relating  to  the  Company's  High  Yield  Notes  and  all   pre-effective   and
post-effective  amendments to such  Registration  Statement and any  abbreviated
Registration  Statement in connection with such Registration  Statement pursuant
to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and generally to do
all  things in our names and on our  behalf  in such  capacities  to enable  the
Company to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission.


______/s/_________________________            _____________/s/__________________
Philip F. Anschutz                            Joseph P. Nacchio


_______/s/________________________            ________/s/_______________________
Cannon Y. Harvey                              Douglas L. Polson


______/s/_________________________            ________/s/_______________________
Craig D. Slater                               Richard T. Liebhaber


______/s/_________________________            __________________________________
Robert S. Woodruff                            W. Thomas Stephens


______/s/_________________________            _____________/s/__________________
James Q. Crowe                                Jordan L. Haines


________/s/_______________________
Richard L. Smith




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