Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LUMN) Q3 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 5, 2024 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Jim Breen – Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Kate Johnson – President and Chief Executive Officer
Chris Stansbury – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Michael Rollins – Citi
Sebastiano Petti – J.P. Morgan
Batya Levi – UBS Securities
Jim Schneider – Goldman Sachs
Jonathan Chaplin – New Street
David Barden – Bank of America
Nick Del Deo – MoffettNathanson
Greg Williams – TD Cowen
Frank Louthan – Raymond James
Eric Luebchow – Wells Fargo

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to Lumen Technologies’ Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. After the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] And 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.

Jim Breen

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining 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 and Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our Safe Harbor Statement on slide one 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 will be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures reconciled to the most comparable GAAP measures, which can be found in our earnings press release.

In addition, certain metrics discussed today exclude costs for special items as detailed in our earnings materials, which can be found in our Investor Relations section of our Lumen