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10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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  • In addition, certain of the risks described below apply only to a part of our business.
  • Business Risks Challenges with integrating, modernizing, and digitally transforming our systems could adversely affect our business and financial results.
  • To achieve our operational and strategic goals and projected cost savings, we must integrate and modernize legacy systems, retire aging or obsolete platforms, deploy master data management, and complete our digital transformation to deliver a global digital platform with automated offerings and digital self-service.
  • These initiatives require efficient resource allocation, advanced project management, adoption of emerging technologies (including AI), access to subject-matter experts, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • We cannot assure you these efforts will be completed on time, be within budget, or achieve intended benefits.
  • Failure to execute could disrupt service delivery, delay repairs, reduce anticipated efficiencies, destabilize our network, and hinder compliance with regulatory or contractual obligations.
  • These outcomes could result in customer loss, inability to attract new customers, and failure to meet financial objectives, any of which could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
  • Our attempts to capitalize on emerging market opportunities — especially AI — may fall short.
  • Growth in AI products and solutions, along with other recent industry changes have fueled demand for higher transmission speeds, greater bandwidth, lower latency and more advanced networking services.
  • We are building a digital networking services ecosystem designed to deliver compelling products and services that address market demand.
  • Achieving this vision requires continuous system enhancements, seamless integration, and the ability to meet evolving customer needs amid rapid technological change and intense competition.
  • If AI-related demand proves weaker, slower, or materially different from our assumptions in strategic plans or guidance, we risk misallocating resources and failing to meet growth objectives.
  • The use of AI in internal operations may create governance, operational, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory risks that could adversely affect the Company's business and results of operations.
  • Our Business and Mass Market offerings face intense competition from a broad range of providers under evolving market conditions that have increased both the number and diversity of competitors.
  • Many of these competitors: • offer products and services that substitute for our legacy wireline offerings, including wireless broadband and voice or non-voice communication services; • provide a more comprehensive portfolio of communications products and services; • operate newer, more integrated, or more advanced systems that enable faster and more efficient service delivery; • possess greater financial, technical, engineering, research, development, marketing, and customer relationship resources; • conduct operations or raise capital at lower costs; • are subject to fewer regulatory constraints or costs; • benefit from stronger brand recognition and deeper, long-standing customer relationships; or • maintain larger-scale operations.
  • These advantages may allow competitors to compete more successfully for customers, strategic partners, and acquisition opportunities.
  • In recent years, competitive pressures have commoditized pricing for certain products and reduced market prices for many others.
  • We expect these pressures to continue, which could place further downward pressure on pricing and adversely impact our profitability.
  • Our ability to compete could be diminished if we fail to innovate and deliver advanced solutions timely.
  • The technology and communications industry is undergoing rapid technological change, increasing demand for digitally-integrated products and enabling an increasing variety of competitors to enter the market.
  • These changes are reducing demand for certain services, enabling the development of competitive alternatives, allowing customers to bypass our networks, and compressing profit margins.
  • Customers increasingly expect higher transmission speeds and advanced offerings, including traditional and generative AI services.
  • Several competitors have committed substantial resources to developing these advanced services.
  • To remain competitive, we must: • accurately predict and respond to technological developments; • develop and offer attractive products and services that meet evolving customer needs; • migrate customers from legacy offerings to newer products and services; • provision our products and services quickly and reliably; • maintain and expand our network to support significantly greater transmission capacity and speeds; and • retire outdated services cost-effectively.
  • Our ability to achieve these objectives may be constrained by limitations in our network, technology, capital resources, or personnel.
  • Failure to successfully execute these initiatives could result in resource misallocation and an inability to retain existing customers or attract new ones, which may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
  • Talent constraints and evolving work models could significantly impede our ability to attract, develop and retain qualified personnel and may impair execution of our transformation and strategic initiatives.
  • As we continue transforming to primarily serve Business customers and deliver advanced products, we face intense competition for skilled leaders and employees and may be unable to attract and retain the technical, operational, sales, and managerial expertise needed to execute our strategy.
  • Competitors with greater resources may offer compensation and benefits exceeding ours, and remote work arrangements have broadened the pool of employers competing for talent.
  • The relatively low trading price of Lumen's common stock has reduced the perceived value of Lumen's equity-based compensation programs, further hindering our ability to recruit and retain critical talent.
  • Moreover, our significant remote and hybrid workforce could impair collaboration, innovation, and productivity, and weaken the collegial relationships that support our corporate culture.
  • These factors could materially and adversely affect our ability to execute our strategic plans and achieve our business objectives.
  • Declining revenues and financial uncertainty could adversely affect our business.
  • Primarily due to competitive and technological changes discussed throughout this report, we have experienced prolonged systemic declines in several of our legacy services, including local voice, long-distance voice, network access, and private line revenues.
  • More recently, pricing pressure and other factors have contributed to revenue declines across a broader array of products and services, including offerings marketed to our Business customers.
  • Although we have implemented operating and strategic plans to address these challenges, we may not succeed in achieving future revenue growth within projected time frames, or at all.
  • Many of our newer offerings generate lower margins and may displace higher-margin legacy services, further impacting profitability.
  • These revenue declines or failure to hit our revenue growth goals, combined with elevated debt levels and Lumen's relatively low stock trading price, may create uncertainty about our future prospects and ability to meet obligations.
  • Concerns about our financial condition may adversely affect employee morale and customers, vendors, landlords, lenders, and other third parties may be reluctant to transact with us or impose unfavorable terms if they believe our future is uncertain.
  • Lumen's relatively low stock price may also restrict our ability to raise capital through equity offerings and reduce analyst coverage.

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  • In addition, certain of the risks described below apply only to a part or segment of our business.
  • Business Risks Challenges with integrating or modernizing our existing applications and systems could harm our performance.
  • To attain our operational and strategic goals and our projected cost savings, we need to integrate, simplify, upgrade, and modernize our existing applications and systems, including many legacy systems from past acquisitions.
  • This process will require us to, among other things, timely retire aging or obsolete systems, deploy a master data management platform, and integrate various legacy IT systems into a new, simplified structure.
  • These modernization efforts will require efficient allocation of resources, development capacity, greater use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and other emerging technologies, access to subject-matter experts, development of a sustainable and resilient operating model, advanced project management capabilities, and successful collaboration among personnel with differing expertise.
  • We cannot assure you these efforts will be successful.
  • Any failure to timely accomplish these initiatives may negatively affect our (i) ability to deliver services to our customers at required speed and scale, (ii) ability to realize anticipated efficiencies and attain our operational cost reduction projections, (iii) network stability, (iv) ability to timely repair infrastructure and respond to service outages or (v) ability to meet regulatory, legal or contractual obligations.
  • We may not be able to create the global digital experience expected by customers.
  • Our customers expect us to create and maintain a global digital platform, including: (i) automation and simplification of our offerings and (ii) digital self-service access to our products, services and customer support.
  • To do so, we must timely and successfully complete the digital transformation of our operations that is currently underway.
  • Effective digital transformation is a complex, dynamic process requiring efficient allocation and prioritization of resources, simplification of our product portfolio, faster product deployments, retirement of obsolete systems, migration of data, and corresponding transformations of our workforce and systems.
  • We cannot assure you we will be able to timely effect the successful digital transformation necessary to develop or deliver a global digital experience expected by our customers.
  • If we are unable to do so, we could lose existing customers or fail to attract new ones, either of which could prevent us from attaining our financial goals.
  • Our attempts to capitalize on emerging market opportunities may not be as successful as envisioned.
  • Growth in AI products and other recent industry changes have fueled demand for higher transmission speeds, greater bandwidth, lower latency and more advanced networking services.
  • In response, we and our affiliates are endeavoring to build a digital networking services ecosystem that enables us to offer attractive products and services that fulfill this market demand.
  • But, as indicated by other disclosures in this Item 1A, our success will be dependent on improving and integrating our systems and meeting evolving customer demands in a highly competitive industry experiencing rapid advances in technology.
  • For these reasons and others, our attempts to capitalize on emerging market opportunities may not be as successful as we currently envision.
  • Each of our Business and Mass Market offerings faces increasingly intense competition from a wide range of sources under evolving market conditions that have increased the number and variety of companies that compete with us.
  • Some of our current and potential competitors: (i) offer products or services that are substitutes for our traditional wireline services, including wireless broadband, wireless voice and non-voice communication services, (ii) offer a more comprehensive range of communications products and services, (iii) operate systems that are newer, more integrated or more advanced, which enable them to provision services faster and more efficiently, (iv) have greater financial, provisioning, technical, engineering, research, development, marketing, customer relations or other resources, (v) conduct operations or raise capital at a lower cost, (vi) are subject to less regulation, (vii) have stronger brand names, (viii) have deeper or more long-standing relationships with key customers, or (ix) have larger operations than ours, any of which may enable them to compete more successfully for customers, strategic partners and acquisitions.
  • In recent years, competitive pressures have commoditized pricing for some of our products and services and lowered market prices for many of our other products and services.
  • Continued competitive pressures will likely place further downward pressure on market pricing.
  • Our ability to successfully compete could be hampered if we fail to timely develop and market innovative technology solutions that address changing customer demands.
  • The technology and communications industry has been and continues to be impacted by significant technological changes, which are increasing demand for digitally-integrated products and enabling an increasing variety of companies to compete with us.
  • Many of these technological changes are (i) displacing or reducing demand for certain of our services, (ii) enabling the development of competitive products or services, (iii) enabling customers to reduce or bypass use of our networks or (iv) reducing our profit margins.
  • For example, our competitors may overbuild in our markets and roll out high speed connectivity products.
  • Increasingly, customers are demanding higher transmission speeds and more technologically advanced products that suit their evolving needs, including traditional and generative AI services.
  • As we note below, several of our competitors have dedicated substantially more resources to developing such advanced services.
  • If we fail to develop competitive services, our business and financial performance could be adversely impacted.
  • To remain competitive, we will need to accurately predict and respond to changes in technology, to continue developing and offering products and services attractive to our customers, to migrate our customers from legacy to newer products and services, to timely provision our products and services, to maintain and expand our network to enable it to support customer demands for significantly greater transmission capacity and speeds, and to discontinue outdated products and services on a cost-effective basis.
  • Our ability to do so could be restricted by various factors, including limitations of our existing network, technology, capital or personnel.
  • If we fail at that, we could fail to retain customers or attract new ones.
  • As we continue to transform our organization, we may be unable to attract, develop and retain leaders and employees with the right skill sets and technical expertise.
  • We may be unable to attract and retain skilled and motivated leaders and employees who possess the technical, development, operational, sales or managerial expertise to execute our plans for transformation, innovation and strategic growth.
  • We operate in a highly competitive and expanding industry, where competition for highly skilled employees has grown increasingly intense and competitors have targeted hiring our employees.
  • The prevalence of remote working arrangements has expanded the pool of companies that can compete for our employees and employee candidates.
  • We believe some of our competitors with greater resources and fewer cost constraints than us have from time to time been able to offer compensation or benefits in excess of what we are able to offer.
  • These risks to attracting and retaining key personnel may have been exacerbated by the impacts of the low trading price of Lumen's common stock, which, as discussed below, has diminished Lumen's ability to offer competitive compensation to our key employees.
  • Our failure to successfully attract and retain key personnel could materially adversely impact our business or financial performance.
  • More than a third of our employees work fully from home, and a portion of the remainder work partly from home under "hybrid" work schedules.

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