How likely is that there will be CenturyLink layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
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@s7 mass markets is still generating over a billion dollars a year currently
The whole company is on hospice. Ask Jim Cramer- he won’t even recommend buying lumen stocks. Guess he got burned too.
Probably didn’t want to pay him.
the only asset left in copper is scrap pulling it out and selling it ,if you want to stick around find a job in fiber good luck
The fact is mass markets is on hospice
@qy they couldn’t Give mass markets away!!! There’s Zero profit in mass markets, it old out of date technology!
For a dozen years Lumen/CTL worked to abandon the copper because it wasn’t profitable and once they had gotten half of the mass market customers modernize and over moved to fiber, only to find out there wasn’t enough ROI on fiber either so they sold the only cash cow mass markets had to AT&T.. there aint no way on gods green earth to make copper profitable again! That boat has sailed
@qy the only remaining enterprise that on copper is a handful full of DSO and DS1 that are government services, BS like river height gauges for the USGS, and remote FAA run way lights … even the post office and social security offices are now on fiber exclusively! Not one cell Site in our entire RCA uses copper at this point there are well over 2 dozen and they all have fiber from Lumen National or someone else … so they aren’t even “century link” enterprises customers!
@qy nobody wants mass markets.
@p0 I didn't say which network service right? The company didn't specify which enterprise services run on copper.
If copper was dead, they would have sold off all of mass markets.
@be I heard some were told 7 years
@ma Network as a service doesn’t utilize copper it’s a Fiber based product, they didn’t sell the copper to AT&T because AT&T doesn’t want copper and are decommissioning theirs as well… copper is defunct we can’t even get some of the supply’s to make the repairs on copper at this point!
New CTO means more restructuring, more RIF's, more hiring. It will just be another stirring of the pot, and some flushing of the toilet. The fringe pieces of Lumen will be sunset, so if you are in those groups (you know who you are) expect you'll be in next RIF.
@m5 No. it is even in the earnings calls. Their enterprise services run on copper. That's why they didn't sell it to AT&T.
They are providing the backbone and network services for AI. Not the AI service itself.
Maybe do some research.
@ky lumens future is riding on AI BRO
All companies on this site have the same exact AI post.
@km AI isn't a valid source bro
@kf you’re in denial, whole world knows copper is obsolete,, just ask Google
AI Overview
Yes, Lumen Technologies' legacy products and services are widely considered a significant liability and a key driver of ongoing revenue decline.
Rating agencies and financial analysts consistently highlight the challenge posed by secular industry pressures and Lumen's exposure to older technologies. The company is actively working to transition away from these legacy systems to a new network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform and intercity fiber network to support AI and hyperscaler demands.
@hv Clearly you don't know about this.
They even said this on earnings calls.
@OP think for yourself doesn’t listen to trolls the company is not going under just getting ready for a change take there money and bank it
@OP CenturyLink Layoffs 2026
This is from an AI generated bot, every company on thelayoff has the same exact post.
@ez copper is legacy, and legacy doesn’t bring in revenue, legacy copper is where the company is hemorrhaging money.
They only keep it going because of regulatory pressure! The “quote-unquote” turn around will fail if they don’t get rid of the copper.
Layoffs always happen.
Those that were offered but declined will be the first to go.
They have to keep copper for the constant revenue stream it brings. Plus the enterprise services run on copper.
They promised staff their jobs through the closing, but look for immediate cuts afterwards. Lumen doesn't want the copper business, and as layoff-happy as Lumen is, they certainly don't want staff where they think they can use AI.
It will start shortly after Lumen closes the deal with AT&T, there’s just not enough work on the copper maintenance side of things to justify half of the folks who decided that they weren’t going to migrate over to network CO,
5 years is best case scenario if you stayed on the copper side with Lumen.
Depends on how aggressive they are with copper retirements, which is inevitable.
What do you care? Are you the same bot or non employee that asks the same question every couple of months? Or do you lack the comprehension to read the previous 80 threads?