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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 grew as Century Telephone and later CenturyTel through acquiring many small and mid-size telephone companies. These include: CenturyTel of Chester, Inc. (Iowa, Minnesota) CenturyTel of Colorado, Inc. – formerly Universal Telephone; CenturyTel of Eagle, Inc. – formerly owned by Pacific Telecom
Lumen Technologies (also known as CenturyLink and Quantum Fiber) Mediacom; SpaceX (also known as Starlink) TDS Telecom; T-Mobile Home Internet (including T-Mobile Fiber) Verizon FiOS; Windstream (including Earthlink)
Carrier-grade NAT. Carrier-grade NAT (CGN or CGNAT), also known as large-scale NAT (LSN), is a type of network address translation (NAT) used by ISPs in IPv4 network design. With CGNAT, end sites, in particular residential networks, are configured with private network addresses that are translated to public IPv4 addresses by middlebox network address translator devices embedded in the network ...
Level 3 Communications, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. [4] It ultimately became a part of CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), where Level 3 President and CEO Jeff Storey was installed as Chief Operating Officer, becoming CEO of CenturyLink one year later in a prearranged succession plan.
Spectra Communications Group was established in 1999 upon Spectra's purchase of 170 GTE Midwest exchanges from GTE.The company was formed by Atlanta, Georgia-based Spectronics Corporation which became the first African-American owned company to control a US telecommunications company.
Founded in 1996 by Philip Anschutz, Qwest began in an unconventional way.Anschutz, who owned the Southern Pacific Transportation Company at the time, established the subsidiary Southern Pacific Telecommunications Company and began installing the first all-digital, fiber-optic infrastructure along his railroad lines and connecting them into central junctions in strategic locations to serve ...
The company was established in 1971 as a subsidiary of Centel.In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, but the Central Telephone Company retained its corporate name.In 2006, Sprint spun off its local telephone business as Embarq, which was then acquired by CenturyTel (now Lumen Technologies) in 2009.