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Tag: CenturyLink
Brightspeed Eclipses One Million Fiber Locations Mark
Brightspeed said today that it has made fiber broadband available to more than one million locations within the first year of launching Brightspeed Fiber Internet. The high-speed broadband service is available to hundreds of thousands…
New CEO Shares Brightspeed’s Origin Story and How the Company Plans to Invest That $2B in Its Network
Brightspeed’s origin story isn’t typical for the telecom industry – at least not for a company of its size. As the company’s new CEO Tom Maguire explained in an interview with Telecompetitor, it all started…
Lumen Sells CDN Customer Contracts to Akamai
Lumen Technologies has sold select content delivery customer contracts and other assets to Akamai Technologies. A Lumen spokesperson confirmed that the contracts and the assets that support them came from the acquisition of Level 3.…
CenturyLink to Use McAfee Home, Small Business Security
New consumer and small business users of CenturyLink leased modems will be protected by McAfee security technology. CenturyLink says that modem protection will be established for “qualifying” customers for Internet-connected devices once they are plugged…
CenturyLink Closer to Meeting CAF Buildout Requirements, But Still Behind in Some States
CenturyLink is closer to meeting buildout requirements in the Connect America Fund (CAF) rural broadband program but is still behind in some states, according to a filing that the company made this week with the…
Frontier, CenturyLink Again May Have Missed CAF II Deadlines for Rural Broadband Buildouts
Frontier and CenturyLink told the FCC they may not have met all deployment deadlines for 2020 for the Connect America Fund CAF II rural broadband program. If so, that would mark the second time the…
CenturyLink Rebrands as Lumen, Sort Of
CenturyLink unveiled a new branding strategy today, effectively breaking itself into two brands. The company introduced Lumen Technologies, or just Lumen, as its new brand for its largest business segment, enterprise and wholesale. The CenturyLink…
CenturyLink Again Tops VSG Carrier Ethernet Rankings
In a period in which the COVID-19 pandemic brought the US Ethernet market largely to a halt, seven providers qualified for the Vertical Systems Group mid-year 2020 Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard, the firm says. The top…
CenturyLink Turns to Fixed Wireless to Meet CAF II Deadlines
CenturyLink told the FCC last week that it expects to meet its Connect America Fund CAF II deployment deadlines. Using fixed wireless in some areas may be key to meeting that goal, according to a…
CenturyLink Completes Fiber Construction Project: Brings Faster Speeds to Boulder Residents
BOULDER, Colo., May 29, 2020 — As families gather and simultaneously use their broadband connections for work, learning and entertainment, the CenturyLink network is keeping pace with the increased demand and growing – recently connecting more…
CMO: We Need to Start Bragging More About CenturyLink Edge Computing, Now Available to 95% of U.S.
CenturyLink edge computing infrastructure can serve 95% of the U.S. with five millisecond latency, said the company’s chief marketing offer Shaun Andrews on a webcast that was part of a virtual financial conference today. That…
CenturyLink Building Fiber and Delivering Faster Internet to More Consumers and Businesses
MONROE, La., May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, a provider of high-speed internet service to communities across the country, has expanded its fiber network in many parts of the U.S., and plans to continue this growth…