For the third year in a row, Lumen secured this recognition, which positioned it as a best-in-class leader in the region. Frost & Sullivan used two key criteria to gauge Lumen’s performance against its competitors: growth performance and customer impact.

CenturyLink was ranked as a Military Times Best for Vets: Employers 2020. This survey is the most comprehensive annual ranking of the country’s best employers and organizations with military-connected employment programs, benefits and support efforts.

Washington Technology ranked Lumen #29 on its Top 100 for 2020. The list includes the largest federal government contractors according to their prime contracts for IT, systems integration, professional services and other technology products and services.

The National Veterans Owned Business Association included Lumen on its list of the best U.S. corporations committed to working with veteran-owned businesses.

Based upon its polling of Fortune 1000 companies, both magazines named Lumen a Best of Best Employer for its leadership in seeking diversity within the workforce.

Frost & Sullivan placed Lumen in the upper right of its business Ethernet services Radar, with the highest scores of both growth and innovation indexes compared to any other competitor. It highlighted Lumen’s market share, size and geographical reach.

The Standard recognized Lumen’s participation in its Workplace Possibilities program—a unique and proactive approach to help prevent and manage absenteeism and disability in the workplace.

Lumen ranked in the Annual Top 50 Employers in the U.S. in five magazines within Equal Opportunity Publications’ portfolio, including Equal Opportunity, Woman Engineer, Minority Engineer, Careers & disABLED and STEM Workforce Diversity.

CRN’s Five Star Rating recognized an elite group of solution providers who offered the industry’s best Partner Programs. CRN selected Lumen for its significant investments in the Channel, best-in-class Partner training and support, innovative marketing programs, and sales incentives.

Lumen secured the top spot in the mid-year rankings, which recognizes network providers who have at least 4% share of the U.S. Ethernet services market. Lumen has held the number one spot continuously since 2017. It was also the only carrier to have attained MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet certification at the time of the survey.

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CRN acknowledged Lumen’s cloud partnerships with companies like VMware, IBM and Google, as well as its edge strategy to deliver low-latency hybrid cloud services across the U.S.

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In light of the pandemic, Barron reranked its list of the top 100 Sustainable Companies in 2020, placing greater focus on social issues and the role of companies to address them. Lumen ranked #43 in the overall sustainable ranking, and higher (#34) in the social metrics ranking.

Forbes included Lumen on its third annual list of America’s top 500 employees for diversity.

Based upon 1,600 customer evaluations from nearly 400 individual respondents, Lumen received the Data Value award, given to the global provider that receives the highest combined ratings for perceived quality and price competitiveness of its data service offerings.

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation included Lumen in a list of U.S. companies that earned a 100% rating and the designation of being a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”

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Leading research consultancy and market diligence firm ATLANTIC-ACM announced its 2019 U.S. Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Awards in December. The awards were determined by responses to the firm’s annual customer feedback survey, which collected over 1,300 customer evaluations from nearly 350 individual respondents. CenturyLink was presented with the ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) Award for Billing and Customer Service.

MEF's awards program is the largest in the world enabling next generation network services, including LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration), SDN/NFV, SD-WAN, and Carrier Ethernet technologies. CenturyLink's focus on the customer experience through innovative, relevant and competitive solutions was key to being selected for the following awards: Retail Service Provider of the Year (Global), Retail Service Provider of the Year (North America), Wholesale Service Provider of the Year (Global), SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year (Global), SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year (North America), Enterprise Application Award for Education, Enterprise Application Award for Transportation.

Jeff Storey was recognized for driving the successful merger of CenturyLink and Level 3, realizing benefits ahead of plan and leading bold investments in technology, advanced networking and enterprise services.

Based on its recent analysis of the North American managed software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) services market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes CenturyLink with the 2019 North American Innovation Excellence Frost Radar Award. By combining its broad network footprint and expertise in managed network services, CenturyLink delivers exceptional SD-WAN services.

For committing to support CENIC and understanding the importance of high-speed broadband for the research and education communities in California, CenturyLink is recognized with CENIC’s 2019 Innovations in Networking Award for Corporate Partner.

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The FTSE4Good Index Series has been designed to objectively measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognized corporate responsibility standards. Inclusion on the list is a reflection of meeting or exceeding FTSE (Financial Times Stock Exchange) standards; ranks are not assigned. CenturyLink continues to be a member company of the FTSE4Good Index.

Frost & Sullivan has named CenturyLink, Inc. winner of the 2018 Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award in the U.S. MPLS/IP-VPN Services Market. The well-known industry analyst firm recognized CenturyLink as a leading provider of MPLS/IP-VPN services in the U.S. market. "To achieve excellence in competitive strategy is never an easy task, but it is one made even more difficult considering today's competitive intensity, customer volatility, and economic uncertainty," wrote Frost & Sullivan analyst Roopa Honnachari in the award analysis. "Within this context, CenturyLink's receipt of this MPLS/IP-VPN services award signifies an even greater accomplishment."

MEF's awards program is the largest in the world enabling next generation network services, including LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration), SDN/NFV, SD-WAN, and Carrier Ethernet technologies. CenturyLink's focus on the customer experience through innovative, relevant and competitive solutions was key to being selected for the following awards: LSO Leadership, Retail Service Provider of the Year (North America), Wholesale Service Provider of the Year (North America), Enterprise Application – Media.

CenturyLink has been named a Top Denver Employer Brand in career marketplace Hired's second annual Brand Health Report. Hired Asked their marketplace of tech talent based in Denver to ran the local companies they find most attractive to work for to determine which factors job seekers prioritize and which companies are doing it best.