Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN) CEO Jeffrey Storey on Q2 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LUMN) Q2 2021 Earnings Conference Call August 4, 2021 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Mike McCormack - SVP, IR
Jeffrey Storey - President, CEO & Director
Indraneel Dev - EVP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Philip Cusick - JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Eric Luebchow - Wells Fargo Securities
Simon Flannery - Morgan Stanley
Batya Levi - UBS
Brett Feldman - Goldman Sachs Group
Frank Louthan - Raymond James & Associates
David Barden - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Nick Del Deo - MoffettNathanson
Anastazia Goshko - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
James Ratcliffe - Evercore ISI

Operator

Greetings and welcome to Lumen Technologies Second Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded, Tuesday, August 3, 2021. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Mike McCormack, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Mike McCormack

Thank you, Franz. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us to the Lumen Technologies Second Quarter 2021 Earnings Call. Joining on the call today are Jeff Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Neel Dev, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our safe harbor statement on Slide 2 of our 2Q 2021 presentation, which notes that this conference call may include forward-looking statements subject to certain risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements should be considered in conjunction with the cautionary statements on Slide 2 and the risk factors in our SEC filings.

We will be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures reconciled to the most comparable GAAP measures that can be found in our earnings press release. In addition, certain metrics discussed today exclude costs for special items as detailed in our earnings material, all of which can be found