Lumen Technologies

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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

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Telecoms

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Publicly Owned

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On September 18, 2026, Lumen Technologies CFO Chris Stansbury announced the company aims for investment-grade credit ratings following its debt restructuring. Speaking on Bloomberg's Credit Edge podcast, Stansbury clarified the target is not "triple A," and this ambition surfaces two years after Lumen's controversial liability management exercise. Previously, on September 16, Lumen expanded its Multi-Cloud Gateway service, enabling over 10 million U.S. business locations to access high-performance cloud networking. The update extends eligibility to qualified third-party connected locations beyond Lumen’s fiber footprint, offering these sites the same cloud networking environment available to Lumen on-net locations.

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Lumen Technologies offers 8 products in the media and telecoms services, telecoms tech, connectivity and cloud, media tech and enterprise tech industries. Lumen Technologies's product portfolio comprises of enterprise connectivity services, telecoms, data centre infrastructure, enterprise security and connectivity and distribution services.

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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 79% of Lumen Technologies's revenue.

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Sep

22nd

2026

06:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Product and Service Discontinuation

Lumen Exiting Voice: What Enterprises Must Do

One of the largest carriers in North America just announced it’s done selling enterprise voice.[1] On July 1, 2026, Lumen Technologies started telling its channel partners it would stop compensating for new voice sales. By August 1, Lumen made it official that there would be no new SIP trunking, Voice Complete, PRI, toll-free, or hosted voice contracts.

Bandwidth

Sep

19th

2026

07:00

Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Investments

The old new thing: Cisco and retro tech are back and forming the AI buildout’s backbone

Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair. Data runs through the glass, in the form of pulses of light, at the speed of over 100,000 miles per second.

MSN US

Sep

18th

2026

00:59

B2B Tag, Bankruptcy, Credit Rating Updates, Debt Levels and Repayment

Lumen Technologies CFO Targets Investment-Grade Rating After Debt Overhaul

\n 08:04 PM EDT, 09/17/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Lumen Technologies ( LUMN ) is aiming for investment-grade credit ratings following its debt restructuring, Bloomberg reported Thursday. "We're not going for, you know, triple A," CFO Chris Stansbury said on Bloomberg's Credit Edge podcast.

Fidelity Investments

Sep

17th

2026

20:19

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Lumen turns robust market data into confident analyst engagement with technology intelligence – GlobalData

August 2026 The client: Alan Decamp, Senior Lead Analyst Relations Manager 1 The challenge Lumen Technologies needed a reliable way to strengthen analyst engagement, validate market narratives and support strategic messaging across its technology portfolio:

GlobalData

Sep

17th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag

Lumen CFO Sees Investment-Grade Future as It Embraces AI, Copper

Just two years after Lumen Technologies Inc. carried out a controversial liability management exercise that made it a pariah — and then a darling — on Wall Street, the company hopes to become an investment-grade name.

Bloomberg

Sep

16th

2026

23:03

Events, B2B Tag, Events and Conferences

Meet Alkira and Lumen at booth 823!

Join us at Gartner IT Symposium, Orlando and discover how Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) transforms how you connect people, sites and data to, and across, cloud environments without hardware or complex configurations.

Alkira

Sep

16th

2026

06:31

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Lumen’s Multi-Cloud Gateway Extends Cloud Networking Access Across Enterprise Sites

The Brief: Lumen Technologies announced wider availability of its Multi-Cloud Gateway service, enabling more than 10 million U.S. business locations to access high-performance cloud networking. The update extends eligibility to qualified third-party connected locations outside Lumen’s fiber footprint, allowing those sites to use the same cloud networking environment available to Lumen on-net locations.

Collab-Collective

Sep

16th

2026

05:49

B2B Tag

BambooToken Controls Windows And Linux systems By Hiding Behind MQTT brokers

BambooToken has been routing its command traffic through an MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) broker, so infected machines never talk directly to the attacker’s servers, according to research published Sept. 15 by Black Lotus Labs. Lumen’s threat research team could not attribute it to any known threat cluster and is tracking it as an emerging threat.

Expert Insights

Sep

15th

2026

18:15

B2B Tag, Supply Chain and Procurement

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G2X

Sep

15th

2026

06:30

M&A Activities, B2B Tag, M&A Activities

AT&T’s Lumen fiber acquisition drives up converged customer base by nearly 50%

“Not only can we sell fiber and can we sell broadband, and we're demonstrating that we can penetrate that asset better than the previous owner can, but we can attach more wireless to it,” he said.

Lightwave Online

Sep

15th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Lumen’s CEO says its Alkira acquisition will accelerate its strategic revenue growth curve

Lumen is banking on its recent acquisition of Alkira, a cloud-native, cloud- and carrier-agnostic networking platform, to drive further enterprise growth. With its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) business concentrated in premises-to-cloud (north-south) connectivity, Lumen sees Alkira as a means to accelerate its move into cloud-to-cloud and data center-interconnect (east-west) connectivity — the fastest-growing segment of enterprise networking.

Lightwave Online

Sep

15th

2026

05:31

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

I Told My Team to Use AI More. Two Weeks Later, I Couldn’t Trust Our Backlog.

The backlog doubled. I told my team to use AI more, and two weeks later our backlog had doubled. The first thing I felt when I saw it was pride. That pride is the part I am least comfortable with now.

Medium

Lumen Technologies has commercial and technical partners like MTI Teleport, Corning and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Examples of Lumen Technologies's suppliers include Google, Atos and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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