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.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1930

Headcount

24,000

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Telecoms

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

20

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On July 23, 2026, a study conducted by Mail Metro Media and Lumen Research, with support from Havas Media Network UK, found that premium digital environments with lower ad-loads significantly improve reader experience, brand recall, and purchase intent. Previously on July 22, analyses highlighted Lumen's advocacy for transforming connectivity into intelligent programmable infrastructure as fiber becomes a foundation for the AI economy, while Lumen itself drew attention after a market-cycle update regarding wide area networks (WAN) AI traffic and broader enterprise communications trends. Also on July 22, the New York Yankees selected Lumen Technologies to connect Yankee Stadium to the team's Tampa, Florida data center via two independent 100-gigabit fiber paths, routed through New York and New Jersey, with automatic failover. Earlier the same day, Gartner recognized Lumen in its June 25, 2026 report, "AI Vendor Race: Lumen Is the Company to Beat in Enterprise WAN and Connectivity Services for AI," noting the company's fiber footprint, dense metro infrastructure, edge capabilities, and integration with Alkira's cloud-native control plane.

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Lumen Technologies offers 8 products in the enterprise tech, telecoms tech, media tech, media and telecoms services and connectivity and cloud industries. Lumen Technologies's product portfolio comprises of enterprise connectivity services, data centre infrastructure, enterprise security, connectivity and distribution 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 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 Corning, MTI Teleport and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Examples of Lumen Technologies's suppliers include Atos, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google.

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