Lumen Technologies, also known as Lumen and CenturyLink, is a publicly owned telecommunications company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1930, the company employs approximately 52,200 individuals and reported $12.4 billion in revenue as of 2025. The company offers both B2B and B2C communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. Its 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.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1930

Headcount

52,197

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Telecoms

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

20

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Lumen Technologies recently received a Training Magazine MVP Award on March 13, 2026, for its commitment to workforce development and training programs, citing investment in employee opportunities. This followed a 5.7% stock decline on March 12, after the company announced the completion of the first phase of its turnaround. This phase involved divesting legacy assets to AT&T, reducing leverage, and securing new Private Connectivity Fabric fiber deals with hyperscale cloud providers to enhance its position in high-growth digital networking services, pivoting its fiber network towards AI data supply chains. Earlier, on March 10, 2026, investor attention focused on Lumen Technologies' ongoing revenue declines and shrinking free cash flow margin, which underscore pressures on its business model and capital needs. Simultaneously, the risk and stability of Qwest securities were highlighted as directly linked to Lumen Technologies' overall financial health, debt management, and fiber network investment strategy.

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Lumen Technologies offers 5 products in the connectivity and cloud, media tech and media and telecoms services industries. Lumen Technologies's product portfolio comprises of connectivity and distribution services, enterprise connectivity services and telecoms.
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Lumen Technologies's revenues were $12.4B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Lumen Technologies's revenue into 5 different product categories, the largest of which is consumer broadband, which represents 99% of Lumen Technologies's revenue.
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