Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies, also known as Lumen and CenturyLink, is a publicly owned company headquartered in the US. It reported $12.4B in revenue as of 2025. Founded in 1930, with approximately 52,200 employees, the company primarily offers telecoms services, specializing in both B2B and B2C communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. Its comprehensive communications services include local and long-distance voice, broadband, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), private line (including special access), ethernet, hosting (including cloud hosting and managed hosting), data integration, video, network, public access, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), information technology, and other ancillary services.

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Founded

1930

Headcount

24,000

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Telecoms

Ownership

Publicly Owned

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News Summary:

On July 10, 2026, Lumen Technologies detailed its process of rebuilding exposure management, stating it had scaled from 17,000 to 1.1 million assets, countering common enterprise assumptions about asset inventory accuracy. The company also completed its $475 million cash acquisition of cloud networking platform Alkira, a deal initially announced two months prior, providing Lumen with a software control plane to orchestrate network traffic without internal development. Furthermore, Lumen was named to TIME's "America's Best Companies 2026" list and recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best Company to Work For - South" for 2026-2027. Earlier, on July 9, Lumen confirmed it had eliminated roles within its Global Partner Solutions team as part of broader cuts in its commercial organization. Most affected employees were informed on July 1 and are expected to depart the company on July 10.

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Lumen Technologies offers 8 products in the connectivity and cloud, media and telecoms services, media tech and telecoms tech industries. Lumen Technologies's product portfolio comprises of data centre infrastructure, connectivity and distribution services, telecoms, enterprise connectivity services and enterprise security.
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Lumen Technologies's revenues were $12.4B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Lumen Technologies's revenue into 7 different product categories, the largest of which is enterprise broadband and voice, which represents 84% of Lumen Technologies's revenue.
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Lumen Technologies has commercial and technical partners like MTI Teleport, Corning and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Examples of Lumen Technologies's suppliers include Atos, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google.

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