Lumen Technologies

Not to be confused with Lucent Technologies.

Lumen Technologies, Inc.
Formerly
  • Central Telephone and Electronics, Inc.
  • Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc.
  • CenturyTel, Inc.
  • CenturyLink, Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryTelecommunications
Predecessor
Founded1930; 94 years ago (1930)
HeadquartersMonroe, Louisiana, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Kate Johnson (CEO)
ServicesNetwork, Cloud Security, Voice, Managed Services, Big Data as a Services, Multi-Cloud Management, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, SaaS Apps, Cloud Connect, Internet, Phone, TV
RevenueDecrease US$17.48 billion (2022)
Decrease US$95 million (2022)
Decrease US$−1.55 billion (2022)
Total assetsDecrease US$45.58 billion (2022)
Total equityDecrease US$10.44 billion (2022)
Number of employees
c. 29,000 (December 2022)
Subsidiaries
ASN
Websitelumen.com
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, which offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice and managed services through its fiber optic and copper networks, as well as its data centers and cloud computing services. The company has been included in the S&P 600 index since being removed from the S&P 500 in March 2023.[3]

Its communications services have included 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.[4]

Lumen has gone through many acquisitions, divestments, and structural changes. In the 20th century, this primarily consisted of buying and selling local telecom providers. Larger mergers at the beginning of the 21st century added internet service providing to Lumen's core business. As Cloud computing became more important, Lumen acquired business to serve enterprise cloud customers.

  1. ^ "CenturyLink Inc. 2022 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 23, 2023.
  2. ^ Goovaerts, Diana (September 13, 2022). "Lumen names former Microsoft exec Johnson CEO as Storey retires". Fierce Telecom. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  3. ^ "Fair Isaac & Co. Set to Join S&P 500; Others to Join S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600" (PDF). S&P Dow Jones Indices. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  4. ^ "Profile: CenturyLink Inc (CTL.N)". Reuters.com. Archived from the original on May 28, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2023.