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EXHIBIT 10.45

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SECURITY AND PLEDGE
AGREEMENT

        AMENDMENT ("Amendment") dated as of December 5, 2003 to the Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of August 30, 2002 (as amended by
Amendment No. 1 thereto dated as of November 6, 2002, the "Credit Agreement")
among QWEST SERVICES CORPORATION (the "Borrower"), QWEST COMMUNICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL INC., QWEST DEX HOLDINGS, INC., QWEST DEX, INC., the BANKS party
thereto and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the "Agent") and to
the Security and Pledge Agreement referred to in the Credit Agreement.

W I T N E S S E T H:

        WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Credit Agreement and the
Pledge and Security Agreement as set forth herein;

        NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:

        Section 1. Defined Terms; References. Unless otherwise specifically
defined herein, each term used herein which is defined in the Credit Agreement
or the Pledge and Security Agreement has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Credit Agreement or the Pledge and Security Agreement, as the case may be.
Each reference to "hereof", "hereunder", "herein" and "hereby" and each other
similar reference and each reference to "this Agreement" and each other similar
reference contained in the Credit Agreement or the Pledge and Security Agreement
shall, on and after the Amendment Effective Date (as defined in Section 12
below), refer to the Credit Agreement or the Pledge and Security Agreement as
amended hereby.

        Section 2. Additional Scheduled Commitment Reduction Date.
Section 2.09(b) of the Credit Agreement is amended as follows:

        (1)   the definition of "Scheduled Commitment Reduction Date" is amended
to read in its entirety as follows:

"Scheduled Commitment Reduction Date" means May 4, 2004.

        (2)   the chart that forms part of the definition of "Commitment
Reduction Amount" is amended to read in its entirety as follows:

Scheduled Commitment
Reduction Date

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  Amount

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May 4, 2004   The lesser of (i) $500,000,000 and (ii) such amount as shall be
necessary such that, after giving effect to the reduction of the Commitments,
the aggregate amount of the Commitments equals not more than $750,000,000

        Section 3. Additional Restricted Payments Basket as a Result of Equity
Issuances. Section 5.10(a) of the Credit Agreement is amended as follows:

        (1)   the "and" at the end of clause (iii) thereof is deleted and
replaced with a comma,

        (2)   the reference to "clauses (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii)" contained in
clause (iv) (y) thereof is replaced with a reference to "clauses (iv) through
(ix), inclusive", and

        (3)   a new clause (v) is added immediately after clause (iv) thereof,
to read in its entirety as follows:

        (v)   the Company may make any Restricted Payment not otherwise
permitted by the foregoing clauses, so long as, at the time of any such proposed
Restricted Payment, the QCII

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Ratio (as defined in the Indenture dated as of December 26, 2002 between the
Borrower and Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, as in effect on the
Amendment No. 2 Effective Date (the "Borrower Indenture")) is satisfied and,
after giving effect to any such Restricted Payment on any test date, the
aggregate amount of Restricted Payments declared or paid by the Company after
the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date does not exceed the sum of (1) 100% of the
aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company from the issuance of Equity
Interests of the Company after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date and (2) the
aggregate principal or face amount of Debt of the Company that has been
converted into Equity Interests of the Company (other than Debt to a Subsidiary)
after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date; provided that, immediately before and
after giving effect to any such Restricted Payment, no Default has occurred and
is continuing (and, for purposes of this clause (v), "Equity Interests" shall
only include Equity Interests that qualify as "Qualified Equity Interests" under
the Borrower Indenture).

        Section 4. Unlimited Ability to Refinance Existing QCC Debt;
Refinancings of QCII and Capital Funding Debt with new Borrower Debt, Increase
in the Basket for Debt Repurchases. Section 5.10(b) of the Credit Agreement is
amended as follows:

        (1)   clause (ii) thereof is amended to read in its entirety as follows:

         (ii)  exchanges, repurchases and tenders so long as the only
consideration therefor is any of (x) Debt permitted by Sections 5.12(c),
5.12(d) and 5.12(j) and Section 5.12(h) Borrower Exchange Debt, (y) cash to the
extent permitted by any of clauses (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of
this subsection 5.10(b), and (z) Qualifying Equity Interests,

        (2)   clause (iii) thereof is amended to read in its entirety as
follows:

        (iii)  refinancings, extensions and renewals of Subject Debt with the
cash proceeds of Debt permitted to be incurred under Sections 5.12(d), 5.12(h),
5.12(i) and 5.12(l) and clause (ii) of the definition of QwestDex Term Debt;
provided that in connection therewith, the Company and its Subsidiaries may use
cash (in addition to the cash proceeds of such Debt) only to the extent
permitted by clauses (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of this subsection
5.10(b),

        (3)   clause (vi) thereof is amended to read in its entirety as follows:

        (vi)  at any time after the aggregate amount of the Commitments (less
the amount of any cash collateral for the Loans held by the Collateral Agent on
terms and conditions satisfactory to it) is $750,000,000 or less, any payments
after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date with respect to Subject Debt (other
than the Subject Debt of a Corp. Company) in an aggregate amount (including
payments made after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date in reliance on
clause (v)) not to exceed $3,100,000,000,

        (4)   the period at the end of clause (vii) thereof is replaced with a
comma, and

        (5)   the following new clauses (viii) and (ix) are added immediately
after clause (vii) thereof, to read in their entirety as follows:

      (viii)  at any time after the aggregate amount of the Commitments (less
the amount of any cash collateral for the Loans held by the Collateral Agent on
terms and conditions satisfactory to it) is $750,000,000 or less, any payments
with respect to the 71/4% Senior Notes of QCC due June 15, 2007, and

        (ix)  at any time after the aggregate amount of the Commitments (less
the amount of any cash collateral for the Loans held by the Collateral Agent on
terms and conditions satisfactory to it) is $750,000,000 or less, refinancings,
repurchases and redemptions of Subject Debt of the Company or Capital Funding
that matures prior to the Termination Date ("Inside Maturity

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Debt"), using as consideration cash or the proceeds of Debt permitted by
Sections 5.12(h) and 5.12(l) (or a combination thereof) and incurred within
180 days prior to the scheduled maturity of the applicable Inside Maturity Debt.

        Section 5. Additional Debt at Corp. Companies; Additional Subordinated
Debt at the Borrower. (a) Section 5.12(h) of the Credit Agreement is amended to
read in its entirety as follows:

        (h)   Debt of any QwestDex Company, any Corp. Company or the Borrower
(other than Debt permitted by subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, above,
Debt of the Borrower incurred in reliance on subsections (j) and (i) below and
Purchase Money Debt incurred in reliance on subsection (k) below), including
without limitation Purchase Money Debt; provided that (i)(x) the aggregate
principal or face amount of Debt of the QwestDex Companies and the Corp.
Companies incurred after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date in reliance on this
subsection (h) shall not exceed $1,000,000,000 and (y) the aggregate principal
or face amount of Debt of the Borrower incurred after the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date in reliance on this subsection (h) shall not exceed
$2,000,000,000 (and, for purposes of calculating such aggregate principal or
face amount of Debt of the Borrower, any Debt that consists of a Guarantee shall
have a principal or face amount equal to the principal or face amount of the
Debt Guaranteed pursuant thereto) and (ii) any such Debt of the Borrower shall
be on Qualifying Terms; provided that any Debt of the Borrower incurred in
reliance on this subsection (h) shall not be required to have the terms set
forth in clause (iv) of the definition of "Qualifying Terms";

        (b)   Section 5.12(j) of the Credit Agreement is amended to read in its
entirety as follows:

        (j)    Debt of the Borrower not otherwise permitted by the foregoing
subsections which is issued to the holders thereof in exchange for, or as
consideration for, the repurchase or tender of Subject Debt held by such
holders, so long as such Debt is on Qualifying Terms.

        Section 6. Addition of a Defined Term. A new definition of "Amendment
No. 2 Effective Date" is added in alphabetical order in Section 1.01 of the
Credit Agreement, to read in its entirety as follows:

        "Amendment No. 2 Effective Date" means the date of effectiveness of
Amendment No. 2 to this Agreement.

        Section 7. Extension of Waiver for Delivery of Certain Financials.
(a) Reference is made to the Limited Waiver dated September 10, 2003 (the
"Waiver") relating to the delivery of certain financial information of the
Borrower and Corp. Pursuant to this Section 5, each Bank hereby agrees that
(i) the date for delivery of the Borrower 2002 SEC Information is extended until
the earlier of (x) January 31, 2004 and (y) the Borrower 2002 SEC Filing Date,
(ii) the date for delivery of the Corp 2002 SEC Information is extended until
the earlier of (x) January 31, 2004 and (y) the Corp 2002 SEC Filing Date,
(iii) the date for delivery of the 2003 Q1 Information is extended until the
earlier of (x) January 31, 2004 and (y) the Q1 SEC Filing Date, (iv) the date
for delivery of the 2003 Q2 Information is extended until the earlier of
(x) January 31, 2004 and (y) the Q2 SEC Filing Date, and (v) the date for
delivery of the 2003 Q3 Information with respect to the Borrower and Corp. only
is extended until the earlier of (x) January 31, 2004 and (y) the Q3 SEC Filing
Date. For purposes of this Section, "2003 Q3 Information" means the information
and officers certificates required under Section 5.01(b) and 5.01(c) of the
Credit Agreement for the Company, Borrower and Corp. related to the fiscal
quarter ended September 30, 2003, and "Q3 SEC Filing Date" means the date of
filing any such information with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Other
terms used in this Section 7(a) and not defined in the Credit Agreement have the
meanings assigned to them in the Waiver.

        (b)   The waivers set forth in subsection (a) above shall be limited
precisely as written and relate solely to the financial information specified
therein.

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        Section 8. Amendment Of Cash Collateral Provisions Of Security And
Pledge Agreement. Section 14(b) of the Security and Pledge Agreement is amended
to delete "and" at the end of clause (i), to replace the period at the end of
clause (ii) with "; and", and to add the following new clause (iii) at the end
thereof:

        (iii)  any other cash amounts deposited by a Lien Grantor as cash
collateral for the Secured Obligations. Notwithstanding any other provision of
the Loan Documents to the contrary, (x) any Cash Distributions with respect to
any Liquid Investments in which any cash collateral deposited pursuant to this
clause (iii) is invested shall be delivered to such Lien Grantor upon its
request; (y) the Collateral Agent is instructed by such Lien Grantor to apply
any amounts so deposited to make any payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 2.11(c) of the Revolver Credit Agreement; and (z) any remaining amounts
so deposited shall be released upon such Lien Grantor's request when the
Revolver Commitments and the Revolver Loans have been reduced to $750,000,000.

        Section 9. Representations of Loan Parties. The Borrower represents and
warrants that (i) the representations and warranties of the Loan Parties set
forth in the Loan Documents shall be true (or, with respect to any
representation and warranty which is not qualified by materiality or material
adverse effect, shall be true in all material respects) on and as of the
Amendment Effective Date, except to the extent any such representations and
warranties specifically related to an earlier date, in which case any such
representations and warranties shall have been true (or, with respect to any
representation and warranty which is not qualified by materiality or material
adverse effect, shall have been true in all material respects) on and as of such
earlier date and (ii) no Default will have occurred and be continuing on such
date.

        Section 10. Governing Law. This Amendment shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

        Section 11. Counterparts. This Amendment may be signed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the
signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

        Section 12. Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the
date when the following conditions are met (the "Amendment Effective Date"):

        (a)   the Agent shall have received from each of the Borrower and the
Required Banks a counterpart hereof signed by such party or facsimile or other
written confirmation (in form satisfactory to the Agent) that such party has
signed a counterpart hereof;

        (b)   the Agent shall have received an amendment fee for the account of
each Bank from which the Agent has received an executed counterpart of this
Amendment or other written confirmation, as required by subsection (a) above, on
or prior to 5:00 p.m. E.S.T. on December 4, 2003, in an amount equal to 0.25% of
such Bank's Commitment (as in effect after giving effect to the reduction of the
Commitments or cash collateralization of the Loans contemplated by
subsection (c) below); and

        (c)   the Commitments shall have been reduced to $750,000,000 (or cash
collateral shall have been deposited with the Collateral Agent on terms and
conditions satisfactory to it and in an amount that, when subtracted from the
Commitments, results in a number equal to $750,000,000).

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be
duly executed as of the date first above written.

 
 
QWEST SERVICES CORPORATION
 
 
By:
 
/s/  OREN SHAFFER      

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        Name:   Oren Shaffer         Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Vice
Chairman
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   Chief Financial Officer
Fax: (303) 296-4920
 
 
 
 
with a copy to:
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   General Counsel
Fax: (303) 296-5974
 
 
QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC.
 
 
By:
 
/s/  OREN SHAFFER      

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        Name:   Oren Shaffer         Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Vice
Chairman
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   Chief Financial Officer
Fax: (303) 296-4920
 
 
 
 
with a copy to:
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   General Counsel
Fax: (303) 296-5974

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QWEST DEX HOLDINGS, INC.
 
 
By:
 
/s/  OREN SHAFFER      

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        Name:   Oren Shaffer         Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Vice
Chairman
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   Chief Financial Officer
Fax: (303) 296-4920
 
 
 
 
with a copy to:
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   General Counsel
Fax: (303) 296-5974
 
 
QWEST DEX, INC.
 
 
By:
 
/s/  OREN SHAFFER      

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        Name:   Oren Shaffer         Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Vice
Chairman
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   Chief Financial Officer
Fax: (303) 296-4920
 
 
 
 
with a copy to:
 
 
 
 
1801 California Street
Denver, CO 80202         Attn:   General Counsel
Fax: (303) 296-5974
 
 
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent
 
 
By:
 
/s/  MICKEY MCLEAN      

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        Name:   Mickey McLean         Title:   Vice President
 
 
 
 
Bank of America, N.A.
901 Main Street, 14th Floor
Dallas, TX 75202-3714
Attn: Mickey McLean
Fax: (214) 290-9508

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