-- Long-term relationship will power businesses to build, manage, and scale
     applications across highly distributed environments

Lumen Technologies ( 
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)(NYSE: LUMN) announced today a strategic relationship with Microsoft that will 
shape the next generation of enterprise application delivery by bringing 
Microsoft Azure capabilities onto the Lumen platform. Mutual customers will 
benefit from being able to run their Microsoft-based solutions closer to where 
digital interactions are occurring using the global Edge Computing services of 
Lumen, creating one of the fastest, most secure platforms for applications and 
data. 

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"Working with Microsoft, Lumen will offer businesses and developers 
capabilities at the edge that are unique in the industry," said Shaun Andrews, 
executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Lumen. "By deeply 
integrating more of our platform services with Microsoft Azure, we can help 
businesses quickly utilize their data for the insights they want and need, with 
the ability to support unique and customized use cases. We're excited about the 
innovations and amazing new digital experiences we can enable for our mutual 
customers by extending Azure to the edge of our global network."

Lumen will collaborate with Microsoft on several future go-to-market efforts to 
support mutual customers worldwide, using the resources of the Lumen Edge 
Experience Center, including:

  -- A certified Azure deployment which will be able to run in Lumen Edge
     Computing nodes worldwide, unlocking more low latency and high bandwidth
     use cases for customers of Azure service platform. 
  -- Communication sector solutions based around Private 5G networks that would
     leverage the cloud-native software capabilities of Microsoft and the Lumen
     fiber network and Edge Computing capabilities. These solutions would allow
     customers to optimize their wireless networks and push workloads even
     closer to digital interactions. 
  -- Enterprise sector managed solutions for a wide range of Microsoft software
     and cloud services to help optimize performance of business workloads and
     support a customer's entire workforce, wherever they may reside.

"By making Microsoft Azure technology available on the Lumen platform we are 
giving enterprises access to an environment where they can get the low-latency 
performance they need for critical applications, with the familiarity of 
Microsoft services and tools," said Yousef Khalidi, corporate vice president, 
Azure for Operators at Microsoft. "With this collaboration we are expanding the 
ways in which businesses can connect Azure to their enterprise networks and are 
excited about having Lumen as a collaboration partner to expand the number of 
use cases we can achieve at the edge of the network."

Further solidifying their alliance, Lumen has selected Azure as the preferred 
public cloud venue for workloads that serve its enterprise customers, helping 
to improve customer experience for the Lumen platform and transforming the ways 
in which new service features get added to the platform. Enterprise customers 
will benefit from having consistent access management experiences across all 
Lumen digital services. Lumen will also leverage Azure, Microsoft Power Apps 
and Microsoft 365 E5 Security & Compliance for its internal digital 
transformation.   

Additionally, Microsoft has named Lumen as one of its preferred partners 
supporting Azure globally with Lumen networking, infrastructure, and managed 
services. Enterprise customers will benefit from having even more 
high-performing network connectivity to all their Azure services from the Lumen 
platform.  

As businesses move enterprise workloads to the edge and increasingly use 
multi-cloud environments, seamless integration of networking and cloud is 
paramount to optimize performance. 

Key Facts:

  -- Lumen is a certified Microsoft Managed Services Partner for a wide range
     of Microsoft software and cloud services and Microsoft Gold Partner. 
  -- Lumen edge nodes are designed to meet 95% of U.S. enterprise demand within
     5 milliseconds of latency. 
  -- For a current list of live and planned edge locations, visit: 
https://www.lumen.com/en-us/solutions/edge-computing.html#edge-computing-map 
  -- The Lumen network is comprised of approximately 450,000 global route miles
     of fiber and more than 180,000 on-net buildings, seamlessly connected to
     global edge nodes, 350 Lumen data centers globally, and 2,200 third-party
     data centers in North America, Europe & Middle East, Latin America, and
     Asia Pacific. 

Additional Resources: 

  -- For more information on Lumen Edge computing solutions visit:
     www.lumen.com/edge 
  -- For more information on Azure Stack visit: 
     https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/ 
  -- Learn more about Lumen Solutions for Microsoft Teams here:
     https://www.lumen.com/en-us/communications/ucc.html 

About Lumen Technologies:
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology 
advances the way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles 
and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most 
secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and 
communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about the Lumen network, 
edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose 
to further human progress through technology at https://news.lumen.com/home, 
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/lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks in 
the United States.  

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release identified by words such as "will," "estimates," "expects," 
"anticipates," "believes," "plans," "intends," and similar expressions are 
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees 
of future results and are based on current expectations only, are inherently 
speculative, and are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and 
uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual events and results 
may differ materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or implied 
by us in those statements if one or more of these risks or uncertainties 
materialize, or if underlying assumptions prove incorrect. Factors that could 
affect actual results include but are not limited to: the ability of the 
expanded strategic alliance to achieve its general intended ends; our ability 
to safeguard our network, and to avoid the adverse impact of possible security 
breaches, service outages, system failures, or similar events impacting our 
network or the availability and quality of our services; the effects of new, 
emerging or competing technologies, including those that could make our 
products less desirable or obsolete; the ability of the expanded strategic 
alliance to enable increased functionality of applications at the Edge; the 
ability of the expanded strategic alliance to enable new digital experiences in 
terms of customer personalization and data integration; the ability to 
successfully execute the planned certified Azure deployment; the ability to 
successfully implement the projected communications-sector solutions around 
Private 5G and Low Earth Orbit Satellite networks; the ability to successfully 
execute the projected enterprise-sector managed solutions; the ability to 
deliver the desired low-latency performance needed for customer applications; 
and other risks referenced from time to time in our filings with the Securities 
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things, existing regulatory, technological, industry, competitive, economic and 
market conditions, and our assumptions as of such date. We may change our 
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SOURCE: Lumen Technologies

CONTACT: Courtney Morton, Lumen Corporate Communications, P: 801-238-0228, 
courtney.morton@lumen.com