Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN) CEO Jeffrey Storey on Q3 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Lumen Technologies, Inc. LUMN Q3 2021 Earnings Conference Call November 4, 2021 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Mike Mccormack – Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Jeffrey Storey – President and Chief Executive Officer
Indraneel Dev – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Brett Feldman – Goldman Sachs
Eric Luebchow – Wells Fargo
Philip Cusick – J.P. Morgan
Batya Levi – UBS
David Barden – Bank of America
Michael Rollins – Citi
Nick Del Deo – MoffettNathanson
Frank Louthan – Raymond James
James Ratcliffe – Evercore ISI
Jonathan Chaplin – New Street Research

Operator

2021 earnings conference call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded, Wednesday, November 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, Florence. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for the Lumen Technologies third quarter 2021 earnings call. Joining me in the call today are Jeffrey Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Indraneel 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 third quarter of 2021 presentation, which notes that this conference call may include forward-looking statements subject to certain risks and uncertainties.

Also, 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, reconcile with 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