Company profile

Future of CenturyLink

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Rank
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| Quantumrun Global 1000

CenturyLink, Inc. is a US telecommunications company that provides data and communications services to wholesale, business, residential, and governmental customers in 37 states. It’s headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. It operates as an Internet access provider and local exchange carrier in American markets and is the 3rd-largest telecommunications company in the US in terms of lines served, behind Verizon and AT&T.

Home Country:
Industry:
Telecommunications
Website:
Founded:
1968
Global employee count:
40000
Domestic employee count:
Number of domestic locations:
213

Financial Health

Revenue:
$17470000000 USD
3y average revenue:
$17800333333 USD
Operating expenses:
$15139000000 USD
3y average expenses:
$15351666667 USD
Funds in reserve:
$222000000 USD
Market country
Revenue from country
0.99

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Strategic services
    Product/Service revenue
    9340000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Legacy services
    Product/Service revenue
    6750000000
  3. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Data integration
    Product/Service revenue
    573000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
220
Total patents held:
497

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the telecommunications sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, as Africa, Asia, and South America continue to develop over the next two decades, their populations will increasingly demand greater first world living amenities, this includes modern telecommunications infrastructure. Luckily, since many of these regions have been chronically underdeveloped, they have the opportunity to leapfrog into a mobile-first telecommunications network instead of a landline-first system. In either case, such infrastructure investment will keep telecom sector building contracts going strong into the foreseeable future.

*Similarly, internet penetration will grow from 50 percent in 2015 to over 80 percent by the late-2020s, allowing regions across Africa, South America, the Middle East and parts of Asia to experience their first Internet revolution. These regions will represent the biggest growth opportunities for telecom companies over the next two decades.

*Meanwhile, in the developed world, increasingly data-hungry populations will begin demanding ever greater broadband internet speeds, spurring investment into 5G internet networks. The introduction of 5G (by the mid-2020s) will enable a range of new technologies to finally achieve mass commercialization, from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles to smart cities. And as these technologies experience greater adoption, they will likewise spur further investment into building out nationwide 5G networks.

*By the late 2020s, as the cost of rocket launches becomes more economical (in part thanks to new entrants like SpaceX and Blue Origin), the space industry will expand dramatically. This will bring down the cost of launching telecom (internet beaming) satellites into orbit, thereby increasing the competition terrestrial telecom companies face. Similarly, broadband services delivered by drone (Facebook) and balloon (Google) based systems will add an additional level of competition, especially in underdeveloped regions.

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