Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Greetings and welcome to Lumen Technologies third quarter 2025 earnings call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question and answer session. And at that time, if you would like to ask a question, please press the star followed by the one on your telephone. If at any time during the conference you need to reach an operator, please press star zero. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Thursday, October the 30th, 2025. I would now like to turn the conference over to Jim Breen, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining Lumen Technologies on today's call. On the call today are Kate Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, 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 and the risk factors on our SEC filings. We will be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures reconciled to the most comparable GAAP measures, which can be found on our earnings press release. In addition, certain metrics discussed today exclude costs for special items as detailed in our earnings materials, which can be found on the investor relations section of the Lumen website. With that, I'll turn the call over to Kate. Thanks, Jim, and thanks, everybody, for joining the call. We had a very productive third quarter at Lumen. First, we reported strong financial results with revenue, EBITDA, and free cash flow all coming in ahead of street consensus. And we're executing well on the essential operational c...