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CenturyLink Expands and Improves Programs Available for Alliances and Strategic Partnerships
Monroe, Louisiana — February 24, 2017 — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is expanding its Alliance programs to serve their enterprise customers with advanced communications and IT solutions. Each program is tailored to meet the specific…
CenturyLink Expands Its Collaboration with VMware to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Adoption
Monroe, Louisiana — February 22, 2017 — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) today announced it has expanded its global strategic collaboration with VMware to deepen the level of software-defined data center (SDDC) technologies available to enterprise customers. This…
Ohio and Utah Are First states to Approve CenturyLink – Level 3 Merger
MONROE, La., Feb. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Ohio and Utah are the first states to approve the merger of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) and Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT). The merger also received regulatory…
Will CenturyLink Ditch IPTV Too? OTT’s Appeal May Sink Prism TV
CenturyLink executives had some blunt talk on their 4Q16 earnings call regarding their IPTV product Prism TV. Its days may be numbered. CenturyLink execs, including CEO Glen Post, expressed a preference for an OTT offer…
Report: AT&T Third in Smart Home Market Share
AT&T has about 308,000 smart home subscribers, according to new smart home market share research from Strategy Analytics. That puts the carrier in third place among U.S. smart home service providers, behind two companies with…
CenturyLink Big Data as a Service Could Mesh with Enterprise Digital Transformation Plans
If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to add big-data-as-a-service to your cloud service lexicon. CenturyLink yesterday launched CenturyLink Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) with Managed Cloudera, a data management and analytics service…
CenturyLink Adds SDN and NFV Services To Its DREN Contract
WASHINGTON – CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently added Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) services to its Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) III contract with the U.S. Department of Defense High…
CenturyLink Acquires SEAL Consulting
MONROE, La., Jan. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) today announced it has acquired SEAL Consulting, Inc., a leading SAP® solutions provider for enterprise-wide business and technology needs. This acquisition further enhances CenturyLink’s application transformation…
CenturyLink Broadband Strategy Relies on OTT for a Return to Broadband Growth
Like some other major carriers, CenturyLink has seen declines on the residential side of its business — not only on the voice side, but also on the broadband side, as some customers have shifted to…
2016: A Big Year for Telecom M&A
The past year was a big one for telecom M&A. Telecompetitor covered more than two dozen mergers and acquisitions in 2016 and they involved numerous facets of the industry. Here’s a summary of key trends…
Lifeline Broadband Problems: Big Carriers Opt Out, Rural Carriers Struggle with Pricing
The FCC’s decision to allow qualified low-income households to use funding from the Universal Service Lifeline program toward broadband service was welcomed back in March when it was made, but problems with the program are…
CenturyLink Wins U.S. Senate Contract
WASHINGTON – CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently won a multi-year contract worth approximately $11.4 million to provide U.S. Senate state offices with a unified communications-as-a-service platform for hosted voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) service. The contract award includes…