Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LUMN) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Mike McCormack - Senior Vice President, Investor Relations

Jeffrey Storey - President and Chief Executive Officer

Christopher Stansbury - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President

Conference Call Participants

Philip Cusick - JPMorgan

Batya Levi - UBS

David Barden - Bank of America

Frank Louthan - Raymond James

Nick Del Deo - MoffettNathanson

Operator

Greetings. And welcome to Lumen Technologies Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded, Wednesday, November, 2022.

It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Mike McCormack, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Mike McCormack

Thank you, France. And good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us to the Lumen Technologies third quarter 2022 earnings call. Joining me on the call today are Jeff Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I need to call your attention to our Safe Harbor statement on slide two of our third quarter 2022 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 two and the risk factors in our SEC filings.

We'll 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 on the Investor Relations section of the Lumen website. With that, I'll turn the call over to Jeff.

Jeffrey Storey

Thanks, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. As you know, this is my last call as Lumen's CEO. I want to begin today's call by welcoming Kate Johnson as our new CEO. Kate starts Monday. I think she is an exceptional leader with strong skills, commitment to customers in a direct pragmatic nature. Within Lumen, we are all excited to have her join the company and have high expectations of the great things she will accomplish.

These are obviously very dynamic times in the broader market, in our industry and for our company. And while we have not accomplished all that I would have liked, we have accomplished quite a lot, and I pass the baton to Kate in confidence that the foundation we have built, the dedicated team we have in place and the refreshed energy of new leadership puts Lumen in a great position to deliver on its objectives of driving growth and creating long-term shareholder value.