Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN) Presents at Citi’s 2025 Global Technology, Media and

Christopher Stansbury
Executive VP & CFO

Yes. I mean when you look at what we’re doing, we’re taking what has been a very sleepy space, enterprise telecom and digitizing it. We’re doing to the network exactly what the hyperscalers did to compute and storage a couple of decades ago. And it’s critical at this point in time with a multi-cloud and AI environment for that to happen, right? Workloads are increasing. The data is getting more and more disparate. Latency matters more than it ever has.

And so what we’re doing is taking what is arguably the most advantaged enterprise network in the country with lots of existing routes, lots of existing capacity and monetizing that by, a, digitizing it, making access digital so that the customers can self-provision services on demand and then ultimately, building an ecosystem beyond that where tech partners are building our network through APIs into their products because it’s making that customer experience better.