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Lumen

2025 has seen major telecom and tech M&A activity, including billion-dollar deals in fiber, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. This monthly tracker details key acquisitions, like AT&T buying Lumen’s fiber assets and Google’s $32B move for Wiz, highlighting how consolidation is shaping the competitive landscape.
A new partnership between Palantir and Lumen Technologies signals a shift from internal AI pilots to packaged enterprise services delivered over a telecom-grade edge and network footprint. Palantir will provide its Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) as the data and decisioning layer for Lumen’s enterprise AI offerings, which Lumen
AT&T’s third quarter shows steady operational execution in wireless and fiber, supported by portfolio moves that aim to strengthen capacity, reach, and cash generation through 2027. AT&T reported Q3 2025 revenue of $30.7 billion, up 1.6% year over year, with diluted EPS of $1.29 boosted by a gain related to
Lumen is accelerating a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar expansion of its U.S. backbone to match the explosive rise of AI-driven traffic. The company plans to add 34 million new intercity fiber miles by the end of 2028, targeting a total of 47 million intercity fiber miles. In 2025, Lumen has already added
Lumen has introduced Wavelength RapidRoutes, a pre-engineered 100G/400G service with a 20-day delivery SLA aimed at removing months-long bottlenecks from enterprise and hyperscaler connectivity. The company is packaging pre-defined, high-demand optical paths as a catalog of ready-to-deploy waves, removing custom design cycles from many standard routes. Lumen’s RapidRoutes offers 100G
AI buildouts and multi-cloud scale are stressing data center interconnect, making high-capacity, on-demand metro connectivity a priority for enterprises. Training pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, and model distribution are shifting traffic patterns from north-south to high-volume east-west across metro clusters of data centers and cloud on-ramps. This is the backdrop for Lumen
Lumen surpassing 1,000 customers on its Network-as-a-Service platform is a clear marker for where enterprise networking is headed. AI adoption, multi-cloud architectures, and distributed applications are pushing organizations toward on-demand, software-driven connectivity. Lumens platform bundles three core service types under a single digital experience. The platform integrates with major hyperscalers,
AT&T will acquire Lumen’s consumer fiber business in a $5.75B deal to expand its broadband coverage to 60 million U.S. locations by 2030. The transaction gives AT&T access to 4M enabled locations, 1M subscribers, and new metro markets like Seattle and Phoenix. Meanwhile, Lumen refocuses on enterprise innovation and AI-first
Lumen Technologies and AWS join forces to transform network operations with generative AI capabilities. This partnership leverages Lumen's fiber network and AWS’s advanced cloud technologies to create scalable, AI-powered network solutions. By enabling high-performance connectivity for generative AI applications, Lumen and AWS are set to redefine industries such as healthcare,
Goldman Sachs analyst James Schneider, Ph.D., covers U.S. Telecom Services, highlighting growth for Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile driven by AI and data center demand. The sector is transforming, focusing on core businesses and experiencing reduced competition and capital intensity.
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