if you look at the IR page on lumen there's a video by stansbury talking about this. what's interesting is he describes the revenue as "lumpy" (his word), and also talks about these deals typically being over 20 years. so $5b over 20 years is... — read more 

Lumen Creates Custom Networks Division to Meet New Demand DENVER, Aug. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced it has secured $5 billion in new business driven by major demand for connectivity fueled by AI. Large... — read more 

We all know Lumen SLT has made very bad decisions for a long time, but job numbers were dismal thanks to the idi-its in the Whitehouse, and Lumen will likely need to make more cuts because that's the chatter going around the office. Why did Lumen... — read more 

Lumen was supposed to announce Q2 numbers this week. Instead they delayed it until next week and announced the MSFT and Corning "AI" deals. If the numbers were good, why delay it? Combining good numbers with the AI deals and the stock would jump... — read more 

Not that I’m upset. Just confused. Why is our stock rising all of a sudden. 1.82??

I'm guessing a few points, at least back to the 1.50s

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/crew-ai Jake Johnson, co-founder, is Kate's son. Focus is outsourcing using AI. Anyone know if this company is a vendor to Lumen? Note the reference to IIT which is a big Indian university system (multiple... — read more 

If just selling Dark Fiber requires the title ‘partnership announcement’, doubt any big acquisition is in the works. Thoughts?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/wiz-walks-away-from-googles-23b-acquisition-offer-read-the-ceos-note-to-employees/ Cybersecurity startup Wiz has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet, Google’s parent company, according to a... — read more 

People used to understand a very powerful but simple concept. It was this. " You take care of the system and the system takes care of you. " This was the magic of family owned businesses before they sold themselves to conglomerates that... — read more 

All this division within!! Not just here, it's everywhere. Just a "soapbox vision" for you to mull: Here we go again with some "experts" trying to place blame on the 1st line workers...all we do is follow the processes and rules laid out by the... — read more 

Microsoft has concluded diversity is “no longer business critical” and has laid off staff working on inclusion initiatives, a former employee has claimed. The technology company has disbanded a team working on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)... — read more 

“ Our modern world is very interconnected. So interconnected that when one little piece of the system goes sour, it can bring down entire industries. In recent years, that reality has led to a pushback against the trend toward globalization, with... — read more 

Total miss. Let’s just spend money on stuff that doesn’t matter. We can’t even get repairs or services installed. customers don’t even take our calls anymore or want to buy more services from company that doesn’t help them. — read more 

Starting Friday. The co has decided dispatch will no longer assist managing company misses. That means they wont read notes either for jobs sent back when co miss should have been used. Rescheduling is relying on customers to reschedule themselves... — read more 

😉 - " Google is in talks to make the biggest acquisition in its history, according to reports. The US technology giant is expected to pay $23 billion (£18bn) for cyber security firm Wiz, The Wall Street Journal reported, just four years after the... — read more 

A "record-breaking second quarter?" In mass markets? The spin is going to be epic.

Numbers don’t lie. No smart ideas in sight. No capacity to reorganize into a solid, growing business. Not enough business sense to discern what should be let go, which areas invested in, which people kept on board. But who’s gonna pay for all those... — read more 

KJ pushed the Q2 report out one week. More people worried about a new RIF list that will be enacted in last week of July. So sad KJ has to keep cutting people.

Let’s face it folks, as well as copper has served us all these years, the company is doing everything it can to make it go away, and no job, especially inside folks, are safe. As a technician who has spent his entire career outside with: USWEST... — read more 

wondering how far below a buck it will go next week

Some apparently didn't get the memo, or research the classic case studies on competitive advantage. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSSE), the parent company of Redbox, has filed for bankruptcy, with a bill of nearly $1B owed to hundreds of... — read more 

Etrade alert this morning: LUMN has been initiated by Goldman Sachs as a sell. Ugh.

Long ago Batelaan the EVP and VP Stotzki/Stolzki pushed "managed services" as delivered by Meraki and Versa SDWAN etc appliances. Do those customers stay happy with Lumen over the long term? Was aware of customers leaving over them believing that... — read more 

FACT: The company is receiving revenue. Not a quarter goes by that we received 0 dollars. The company is NOT exceeding expectations and the dollar received is less than previous quarter. Therefore, we are not generating revenue only declining. What... — read more 

from former employees on LinkedIn. They may be doing them piecemeal, or just not making a major announcement.

Any thoughts on the stock price over the next six weeks or so? Do we retest the .78 cents low seen on 11/02/2023?

This is for the board of directors. Do you want want the company to fail if so keep the current CEO in place. Ball is in your court and the lives of a lot employees are on the line. We do not get golden parachutes.

I have never had a case where a Director level mgr was useful in resolving issues. Has anyone else had good experience with them?

99 cents Disruption and Winning Like He'll! Great Job KJ!

Now that dare to bleed is a fact in the wind they roll out mandatory allyship training. WTF is going on here? Why don't they take some "how to make a business make money" training and let the working stiffs do their fu--ing jobs.

163 jobs at the moment, from intern to vice president. 150 in the US. surprised it's not 163 vice presidents. From jobs.lumen.com: 43 Sales and Marketing 23 University / Entry level 18 "Corporate Careers" (whatever that is) 3 Executive 14 "High... — read more 

I am learning just how bad our customers have it. We are weeks behind on installation and repairs. It is a combination of poor dispatching. If you ask dispatchers it is the fields problem not dispatch. You look at tickets and see a minimum of three... — read more 

Jobs.lumen.com. Only 6 job openings available. Why?

The stock since Kate was hired is an industry worst. When does she get shown the door. What did she expect if you don’t replace the field leadership? Most of the worthless goons are still in place receiving a check. If they were any good at all... — read more 

get ready all, if KJ follows her plan, there will most likely be RIFs this week, quiet or otherwise, to boost the quarterly numbers. Doubt if I will be proved wrong

is it just me or did "dare to lead" get really quiet lately? or maybe I'm just lucky!

Kate Johnson I know that because I'm in conversations with all the hyperscalers and all the cloud companies. Nobody else is doing this. Nobody else has Exaswitch. Nobody else has “true NaaS” “as we're providing it”, and the vision is capacity on... — read more 

NPS Scores: Quantum Fiber: 64 AT&T: 15 Verizon: 7 Cox: -9 Comcast: -20 Yeah, Quantum Fiber sure is a disaster. You guys make me laugh.