Q3 2024 Lumen Technologies Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) has secured over $8 billion in Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) sales, indicating strong demand for their network services.
- The company is making significant progress in its transformation into a digital network services company, focusing on AI and cloud services.
- Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) reported a 14% year-over-year increase in North American large enterprise and midmarket sales.
- The company achieved record fiber net additions in the mass market segment, demonstrating strong consumer demand for fiber services.
- Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) successfully executed a debt exchange, extending maturities and improving its balance sheet position.
- Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) continues to face secular headwinds in its legacy revenue streams, impacting overall financial performance.
- The company's EBITDA results are weighed down by heavy investments in transformation programs.
- Lumen Technologies Inc (LUMN) expects EBITDA to decline year-over-year in 2025 due to legacy declines and transformation costs.
- The nurture product revenue decreased by 15.2% year-over-year, largely impacted by declines in VPN and Ethernet services.
- The company acknowledges that its current financial results make it difficult to envision long-term success, requiring time for transformation efforts to reflect in financials.
Greetings and welcome to Lumen Technologies' third-quarter 2024 earnings call. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Jim Breen, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Jim, please go ahead.
Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining the Lumen Technologies' third-quarter 2024 earnings call. On the call today are Kate Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.
Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our Safe Harbor statement on slide 1 of our third-quarter 2024 presentation which notes that this conference call may include forward-looking statements, subject to certain risks and uncertainties.
All forward-looking statements should be considered in conjunction with the cautionary statements and the risk factors in our SEC filings. We'll be referring to certain non-GAAP financial
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