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

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24,000

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United States

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Telecoms

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Publicly Owned

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On September 11, 2026, Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson detailed the company's strategy to align its network and software capabilities with enterprise demand for artificial intelligence at a Citi conference. Johnson emphasized the growing need for customers to move data among buildings, cloud platforms, data centers, and edge locations in real time. Earlier on the same day, Lumen highlighted its ongoing shift toward digital networking, noting that strategic revenue now comprises over half of its total revenue and expanded by 14% in the latest quarter, addressing the connectivity demands imposed by AI inference. This follows Lumen Technologies Inc.'s presentation at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference 2026 on September 10, where President & CFO Christopher Stansbury participated alongside Michael Ng of Goldman Sachs.

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

16th

2026

05:49

B2B Tag

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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.

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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.

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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

Sep

14th

2026

08:25

B2B Tag, Management Changes

Atlassian, Moderna and Lumen put HR in charge of AI transformation as the job itself breaks apart

In April 2026, Atlassian put Avani Prabhakar in charge of a new, 3,500-person organization responsible for AI transformation across all 14,000 employees. Her title changed from head of HR to chief people and AI enablement officer.

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Sep

14th

2026

02:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

AI is giving HR chiefs a new job

She was not the first. In May 2025, Moderna, the biotech company, merged its HR and IT departments and put the combined organization under Tracey Franklin, its chief human resources officer (CHRO), now chief people and digital technology officer.

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Sep

11th

2026

06:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Lumen Technologies Maps AI Networking Growth Strategy at Citi Conference

Written by MarketBeat, MarketBeat Contributor for MarketBeat Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) Chief Executive Officer Kate Johnson said the company is positioning its network and software capabilities around enterprise demand for artificial intelligence, arguing that customers increasingly need to move data among buildings, cloud platforms, data centers and edge locations in real time.

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Sep

11th

2026

06:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Lumen Technologies Maps AI Networking Growth Strategy at Citi Conference

Former Dividend Aristocrat AT&T Posts Strong Earnings, Tries to Win Back Investors Lumen Technologies NYSE: LUMN Chief Executive Officer Kate Johnson said the company is positioning its network and software capabilities around enterprise demand for artificial intelligence, arguing that customers increasingly need to move data among buildings, cloud platforms, data centers and edge locations in real time.

MarketBeat US

Sep

11th

2026

02:32

B2B Tag

Lumen Technologies Bets on Digital Networks as AI Inference Strains Connectivity

Interested in Lumen Technologies, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Lumen is shifting toward digital networking , with strategic revenue now representing more than half of total revenue and growing 14% in the latest quarter.

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Sep

10th

2026

19:39

Financial Results, B2B Tag, Financial Performance

AT&T at Bank of America conference: convergence gains momentum

AT&T (T) said on Thursday, 10 September 2026, at the Bank of America 2026 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference that its long-term push into fiber and 5G is starting to pay off, even as it faces heavy competition, tighter subsidy economics and a still-unfinished integration of recent acquisitions.

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Sep

10th

2026

16:30

B2B Tag, Legal Issues and Lawsuits

Lack of Standing Stymies PRT Suit

A federal judge has rejected claims by plaintiffs represented by Schlichter Bogard LLC in (yet another) in a pension risk transfer suit.

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

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