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Lumen Technologies operating companies consist of operations inherited from various predecessor companies, which is reflected in the differing names of the companies and partially overlapping service territories; all operating companies do business using the CenturyLink brand. Predecessors include:
Qwest Corporation, doing business as CenturyLink QC, is a Regional Bell Operating Company owned by Lumen Technologies. It was originally named Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company , later becoming known as Mountain Bell , then US West Communications, Inc. from 1991 to 2000.
Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink, Inc.) 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.
CenturyLink shareholders would hold a 50.5% share of ownership in the combined company, while Qwest shareholders would own the remaining 49.5%. The valuation of CenturyLink's purchase as of April 21, 2010, was $22.4 billion, including the assumption of $11.8 billion of outstanding debt held by Qwest as of December 31, 2009.
CenturyLink of Florida, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Florida owned by Lumen Technologies. The company was established in 1925, later changing its name to United Telephone Company of Florida upon expansion of the United Telephone System.
CenturyLink of Minnesota, Inc. is a telephone operating company providing local telephone services in Minnesota. In 2005, Sprint Corporation acquired Nextel and changed its name to Sprint Nextel Corporation. In 2006, the company spun-off its local telephone operation into a separate company, Embarq Corporation.
In addition to the DISH Network partnership, Embarq also planned to test a TV service (tentatively called Embarq TV) in the near future. Details were scarce, but the service was rumored to have been an IPTV fiber-to-the-node service similar to AT&T's U-verse. Testing was completed and Embarq/CenturyLink rolled out IPTV to its customer base in ...
CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc. is a telephone operating company owned by Lumen Technologies that provides local telephone service in Colorado, including Pagosa Springs. [1] The company is separate from CenturyTel of Eagle and Qwest Corporation, the other local telephone companies CenturyLink owns in Colorado.