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Lumen

Telecom & mediaTelecommunicationsLUMNFortune 500 #331
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67
Latest disclosed NPS
2 May 2024
24
NPS entries
9 with a number
15%
Churn
8 Feb 2017
2001–25
Years covered
36 entries in all

In their words

“In the first quarter, I'm super excited to tell you that every one of our customer segments showed dramatic year-over-year improvements across all products and customer satisfaction, as measured by Net Promoter Scores, or NPS.”
— Kathleen Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q1 2024 · 30 Apr 2024
“Our Quantum Fiber NPS score is now greater than positive 60, an indication of the quality, value, and superior service that Quantum Fiber delivers, Quantum Fiber is an all-digital multi-gig capable prepaid product that features simple pricing with no…”
— Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q1 2023 · 2 May 2023
“Fiber NPS score within RemainCo was greater than positive 50 again this quarter, an indication of the quality, value and superior service that Quantum Fiber delivers.”
— Christopher Stansbury, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q3 2022 · 2 Nov 2022

Disclosed NPS over time

Every Net Promoter Score Lumen has published, by date.

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NPS disclosures (24)

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31 Mar 2025
NPSProgram

for our 2024 STI in this regard, Enterprise customer satisfaction (tNPS) rose over 30 points year-over-year, with all four customer segments showing significant improvement each quarter.

— Lumen · SEC proxy statement · filed 31 Mar 2025
SEC proxy statement ↗
5 Nov 2024
NPSProgram

…in customer sat scores for every one of our enterprise customer channels, as measured by transactional net promoter scores, 17 points for large enterprise, up 11 points for wholesale, 28 points for mid-market, and a whopping 98 points for public sector.

— Kate Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q3 2024 · 5 Nov 2024
Earnings call, Q3 2024 ↗
18 Oct 2024
NPSProgram

Lumen achieved a 17-point surge in year-over-year Net Promoter Score, breaking through its CX plateau.

— reported by masslive.com · 18 Oct 2024
masslive.com ↗
2 Oct 2024
NPSProgram

Lumen reported a 17-point year-over-year increase in Net Promoter Score, demonstrating significant progress in customer loyalty.

— reported by channellife.com.au · 2 Oct 2024
channellife.com.au ↗
6 Aug 2024
NPSProgram

…we saw another step-function improvement in customer sat in our service delivery process with year-over-year transaction net promoter scores rising 10 points for large enterprise, 35 points for wholesale, 37 points for mid-market, and a…

— Kate Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q2 2024 · 6 Aug 2024
Earnings call, Q2 2024 ↗
2 May 2024
NPS67

Lumen's Quantum Fiber achieved an NPS of 67 in Q1, rising sequentially and year-over-year.

— reported by fierce-network.com · 2 May 2024
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30 Apr 2024
NPS67

In the first quarter, I'm super excited to tell you that every one of our customer segments showed dramatic year-over-year improvements across all products and customer satisfaction, as measured by Net Promoter Scores, or NPS.

— Kathleen Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q1 2024 · 30 Apr 2024
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5 Apr 2024
NPSProgram

…Relationship NPS (revenue weighted) increased 17 points vs. prior year • Relationship CES held flat vs. prior year, which was 2 points below target MASS MARKETS RESULTS •

— Lumen · SEC proxy statement · filed 5 Apr 2024
SEC proxy statement ↗
8 Feb 2024
NPS64

Lumen reported a Net Promoter Score of 64% for its Quantum Fiber service in earnings guidance.

— reported by businesswire.com · 8 Feb 2024
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31 Dec 2023
NPSProgram

awarding us world-class NPS scores

— reported by ir.lumen.com · 31 Dec 2023
ir.lumen.com ↗
1 Jun 2023
NPSProgram

Average NPS score on Quantum Fiber

— reported by ir.lumen.com · 1 Jun 2023
ir.lumen.com ↗
2 May 2023
NPS60

Our Quantum Fiber NPS score is now greater than positive 60, an indication of the quality, value, and superior service that Quantum Fiber delivers, Quantum Fiber is an all-digital multi-gig capable prepaid product that features simple pricing with no…

— Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q1 2023 · 2 May 2023
Earnings call, Q1 2023 ↗
5 Apr 2023
NPSProgram

ENTERPRISE RESULTS ■ Relationship NPS +0.6 ■ Relationship CES +0 ■ Transactional scores up year over year MASS MARKETS RESULTS ■ Relationship NPS +2.5 ■ Relationship CES +1 ■ Transactional scores up year over year QUANTUM FIBER RESULTS ■ Relationship…

— Lumen · SEC proxy statement · filed 5 Apr 2023
SEC proxy statement ↗
2 Nov 2022
NPS50

Fiber NPS score within RemainCo was greater than positive 50 again this quarter, an indication of the quality, value and superior service that Quantum Fiber delivers.

— Christopher Stansbury, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q3 2022 · 2 Nov 2022
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14 Sep 2022
NPSProgram

Lumen's Quantum Fiber division recently increased its net promoter score, a measure of customer satisfaction.

— reported by fiercetelecom.com · 14 Sep 2022
fiercetelecom.com ↗
3 Aug 2022
NPS50

Our Net Promoter Score remains above 50, demonstrating the quality of our product and the easy-to-use nature of our all-digital experience.

— Jeffrey Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q2 2022 · 3 Aug 2022
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21 May 2022
NPS50

Lumen's cloud services currently receive Net Promoter Scores of over 50.

— reported by fiercetelecom.com · 21 May 2022
fiercetelecom.com ↗
4 May 2022
NPS50

This is bolstered by our current Quantum NPS score within RemainCo, which is greater than positive 50, highlighting the quality, speed and customer-friendly nature of our fiber offering.

— Chris Stansbury, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q1 2022 · 4 May 2022
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8 Apr 2022
NPSProgram

As such, the primary measures for Customer Experience performance are NPS and Customer Ease Score (CES) 2021 GOALS Although there are quantitative metrics involved in Customer Experience, the overall metric is qualitative in nature.

— Lumen · SEC proxy statement · filed 8 Apr 2022
SEC proxy statement ↗
9 Feb 2022
NPSProgram

And so we see lots of factors in addition to our all-digital world-class experience that we are offering to customers, our great NPS scores, we see a lot of factors that give us high confidence in the 40%-plus numbers.

— Jeff Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q4 2021 · 9 Feb 2022
Earnings call, Q4 2021 ↗
4 Aug 2021
NPS74

If you look at our fiber-based Quantum Fiber new customer experience, I think our NPS is like positive 74, which I would put up against anybody, anywhere.

— Jeffrey Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q2 2021 · 4 Aug 2021
Earnings call, Q2 2021 ↗
7 Apr 2021
NPSProgram

Improve relationship Net Promoter Scores by four points and relationship Customer Ease Scores by 6% in all segments Performance Results: Our overall customer satisfaction performance for 2020 showed year over year improvement as follows: Transformative…

— Lumen · SEC proxy statement · filed 7 Apr 2021
SEC proxy statement ↗
11 Feb 2021
NPSProgram

We see it in our Net Promoter Score's surveys. We've got great benefits that we're bringing to small business, mid-market business, enterprise business, IGAM, and we'll continue to leverage all of those investments to drive the trajectory of each of…

— Jeff Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q4 2020 · 11 Feb 2021
Earnings call, Q4 2020 ↗
6 Nov 2019
NPSProgram

And are you -- like Net Promoter Scores, is there any -- are you seeing any kind of metrics or things that is going to help you kind of get more tangible about how your -- how the customers are really feeling?

— Jeff Storey, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lumen · Earnings call, Q3 2019 · 6 Nov 2019
Earnings call, Q3 2019 ↗

Retention disclosures (12)

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8 Feb 2017
Churn30%

Churn (Enterprise): 30% (FY2016 vs FY2015) — “approximate 30 basis points improvement in 2016 versus 2015”

— Glen F. Post - CenturyLink, Inc., CEO, Lumen · Earnings call, Q4 2016 · 8 Feb 2017
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8 Feb 2017
Churn15%

Churn (Consumer broadband): 15% (FY2016 vs FY2015) — “15 basis points improvement in consumer broadband churn year over year”

— Glen F. Post - CenturyLink, Inc., CEO, Lumen · Earnings call, Q4 2016 · 8 Feb 2017
Earnings call, Q4 2016 ↗
3 Aug 2016
Churn50%

Churn (Consumer broadband): 50% (Q2 2016) — “overall broadband losses, it was about 50% due to increased churn”

— Lumen management · Earnings call, Q2 2016 · 3 Aug 2016
Earnings call, Q2 2016 ↗
3 Aug 2016
Churn20%

Churn (Consumer broadband): 20% (Q2 2016) — “about 20% of the decline was driven by higher than expected slow and nonpaying customer churn”

— Lumen management · Earnings call, Q2 2016 · 3 Aug 2016
Earnings call, Q2 2016 ↗
13 Aug 2002
Churn1.95%

Churn (cellular (majority-owned and operated markets, excluding prepaid)): 1.95% (FY2000) — “and 1.95% in 2000”

— Lumen · SEC 8-K filing · filed 13 Aug 2002
SEC 8-K filing ↗
2 Apr 2002
Churn2.33%

Churn: 2.33% (2001) — “Average monthly churn rate (excluding prepaid customers) 2.33 % 1.95 % 2.02 %”

— Lumen · SEC proxy statement · filed 2 Apr 2002
SEC proxy statement ↗
15 Mar 2002
Churn2.33%

Churn (cellular (majority-owned and operated markets, excluding prepaid)): 2.33% (2001) — “The Company's average monthly churn rate, excluding prepaid customers, in its majority-owned and operated markets was 2.33% in 2001 and 1.95% in 2000.”

— Lumen · SEC 10-K annual report · filed 15 Mar 2002
SEC 10-K annual report ↗
14 Nov 2001
Churn2.28%

Churn: 2.28% (9M 2001) — “Average monthly churn rate (excluding prepaid customers) 2.28% 1.88”

— Lumen · SEC 10-Q quarterly report · filed 14 Nov 2001
SEC 10-Q quarterly report ↗
14 Nov 2001
Churn2.32%

Churn: 2.32% (Q3 2001) — “Average monthly churn rate (excluding prepaid customers) 2.32% 1.93”

— Lumen · SEC 10-Q quarterly report · filed 14 Nov 2001
SEC 10-Q quarterly report ↗
10 Aug 2001
Churn2.2%

Churn (postpaid cellular): 2.2% (Q2 2001) — “The Company's average monthly postpaid churn rate (the percentage of contract cellular customers that terminate service) was 2.2% for the second quarter of 2001 and 1.7% for the second quarter of 2000.”

— Lumen · SEC 10-Q quarterly report · filed 10 Aug 2001
SEC 10-Q quarterly report ↗
15 May 2001
Churn2.4%

Churn: 2.4% (Q1 2001) — “The Company's average monthly postpaid churn rate (the percentage of contract cellular customers that terminate service) was 2.4% for the first quarter of 2001 and 2.0% for the first quarter of 2000”

— Lumen · SEC 10-Q quarterly report · filed 15 May 2001
SEC 10-Q quarterly report ↗
10 May 2001
Churn2.36%

Churn (contract customers): 2.36% (Q1 2001) — “The average monthly churn rate was 2.36% for contract customers.”

— Lumen · SEC 8-K filing · filed 10 May 2001
SEC 8-K filing ↗

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About these figures

Every figure here was publicly disclosed by the named company: press releases, annual reports, SEC filings, earnings calls and news coverage. Companies tend to publish their NPS when it is good, so these numbers run higher than a true industry average: read them as what leading companies in this vertical say publicly, not as an industry benchmark.

NPS runs from −100 to +100. Retention figures are reported as the company defines them (net revenue retention, gross revenue retention, customer retention rate, churn). Every entry links to its source in the full database.