The Lumen Technologies operating companies are local exchange carriers owned by Lumen Technologies, the third largest landline telephone company in the United States.
Predecessors include: CenturyLink grew as Century Telephone and later CenturyTel through acquiring many small and mid-size telephone companies.
These include: The following companies were acquired from Embarq, which was formed in 2006 by the spin-off of the local telephone operations of Sprint Corporation (previously named United Telephone).
It also includes companies formerly owned by Centel which was purchased by Sprint in 1993.
Qwest acquired US West, one of the Baby Bells, in 2000.