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. 

CenturyLink ranks on this year’s 27h Annual “Top 50 Employers” in Woman Engineer Magazine.

Frost & Sullivan identified several factors driving CenturyLink's success, including significant growth in the VoIP access and SIP trunking services market through a highly effective merger strategy and carefully considered product integration approach. The company was also recognized for having one of the most diverse communications products and services portfolios in the industry.

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CenturyLink was named to Forbes magazine’s inaugural 2018 Best Employers for New Graduates list. The list was created from surveys given to more than 10,000 young professionals at companies with at least 1,000 employees. Survey questions included multiple topics, including working conditions, salary and wages and workplace diversity.

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CenturyLink, Inc. has been named an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner. The achievement highlights CenturyLink's ongoing commitment to building robust services on AWS to deliver digital transformation to businesses on their cloud journeys.

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CenturyLink was awarded ATLANTIC-ACM’s 2017 Metro Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Award for Billing at this year’s IMCOMPAS Show in San Francisco.

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.

CenturyLink awarded Top Supplier in Overall Sales, in addition to best performing supplier of colocation at Telarus Partner Xchange.

CenturyLink has been recognized by ATLANTIC-ACM with two Business Connectivity Service Provider Excellence awards for delivering high-quality customer service and value with its retail data service offerings.

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CenturyLink announced today that it has been selected as an authorized commercial internet service provider by The Quilt, a national coalition of non-profit U.S. regional research and education networks representing 40 networks and more than 900 educational institutions across the country.

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Acknowledging their strong and ongoing commitment to being a diverse and inclusive company, Forbes has named Lumen Technologies to its list of Best Employers for Diversity for the second...

CenturyLink's Bill Bradley, senior vice president, cyber engineering and technology services, has been named a member of the Louisiana cybersecurity commission.

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Newsweek’s Green Rankings comprehensively assesses the environmental performance of the largest publicly traded companies in the United States and around the world. CenturyLink was listed as 228 and former Level 3 Communications was listed 226 out of the top 500 companies in 2017.

Barron’s recently offered their first ranking of the most sustainable companies in the U.S. To create the ranking, Barron’s turned to a sustainable-investing stalwart: Calvert Research and Management. CenturyLink made the list coming in at number 64 out of the named 100.

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CenturyLink has received the Frost & Sullivan 2018 Product Leadership Award for its innovative Cloud Application Manager hybrid cloud management platform, whose dynamic capabilities deliver added value by aligning IT teams around workloads and business initiatives as they pursue their digital transformation goals.

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CenturyLink was ranked in 2018 as a Silver class company with an aggregate score of 46. The Silver rating positions us in the top 30% of all companies for ethical and responsible employment and business practices, sustainable procurement and environmental management.

EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted provider of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. The EcoVadis CSR rating methodology is built on international CSR standards including the Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact, and the ISO 26000, covering 190 spend categories and 150 countries. The rating methodology is integrated into an EcoVadis scorecard that provides detailed insight into the CSR performance of a company covering 21 CSR indicators grouped in 4 themes (Environment, Labor/Social, Fair business/Ethics, and Supply Chain).

Vernon Irvin, CenturyLink, Inc. senior vice president, has been appointed to Colorado Technology Association's (CTA) Board of Directors. In this role, Irvin will help advance the state's tech community by leveraging his 20 years of executive leadership expertise in communications services.

Live Marketing, an award-winning creative agency, and CenturyLink, its client, earned a silver Stevie® Award in the 2017 International Business AwardsSM. Live Marketing was responsible for the creative strategy and implementation of the project which was honored in the Live Event Category. Judges praised the exhibit for its interactive and personalized visitor experience, calling the program “effective and innovative” and citing its “impressive metrics.”

CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently won a coveted spot on the General Services Administration's 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program, a multiple-award contract vehicle for federal government agencies to purchase information technology and telecommunications infrastructure services.

CenturyLink, Inc. today announced it has once again been positioned as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting, Europe. This marks the fifth consecutive year Gartner has named CenturyLink a leader in this report. The report evaluated managed hybrid cloud hosting solutions from CenturyLink and recognised it as a leading provider based on its "ability to execute" and "completeness of vision."

The Five Star Audit process involves an in-depth examination of an organisation’s entire health and safety management system(s) and associated arrangements, focusing on the key aspects of their approach to managing occupational health and safety in the workplace and offers a structured path for continual improvement towards best practice status.

CenturyLink ranked #35 on the 27th Annual "Top 50 Employers" in the U.S. by Minority Engineer magazine. The readers of Minority Engineer magazine selected the top companies and/or government agencies in the country for which they would most prefer to work or believe would provide a positive working environment for engineers who are members of minority groups.

CenturyLink today announced it won seven awards from MEF that highlight the depth and breadth of CenturyLink's network and managed services, including Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN). Award winners were recognized at the MEF17 networking event held this week in Orlando, Fla.

CenturyLink, Inc. has been named the Asia Pacific Hybrid IT Service Provider of the Year for a third consecutive year by Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting firm. The award recognizes the company's success in solving IT challenges for Asia Pacific businesses that leverage CenturyLink's comprehensive portfolio of hybrid IT services.