Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LUMN) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Michael McCormack - SVP. IR

Jeffrey Storey - President, CEO & Director

Christopher Stansbury - EVP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Simon Flannery - Morgan Stanley

Philip Cusick - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Eric Luebchow - Wells Fargo Securities

James Ratcliffe - Evercore ISI

Batya Levi - UBS

Bora Lee-Marks - RBC Capital Markets

Nicholas Del Deo - MoffettNathanson

Brett Feldman - Goldman Sachs Group

David Barden - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to Lumen Technologies Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Wednesday, August 3, 2022. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Mike McCormack, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Michael McCormack

Thank you, France. Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining us to the Lumen Technologies' Second 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 2 of our second 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 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 on the Investor Relations section of the Lumen website.

Before turning the call over to Jeff, please be aware that we will not be able to discuss our active cash tender offers for certain of our outstanding debt securities. These tender offers are expected to expire later this week.

With that, I'll turn the call over to Jeff.

Jeffrey Storey

Thanks, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. On today's call, I'll provide some thoughts on our second quarter results as well as our plans for the second half of the year. Chris will discuss the second quarter in more detail, and we'll reserve time after Chris' remarks for your questions.