---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-162876"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUMN"
cik: "0000018926"
company_name: "Lumen Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-04-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T05:22:46.111775+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lumen/Qwest launch exchange offers for ~$1.64B of notes; plan to delist old notes

## Summary
- Exchange offers for $977.5M of 6.5% notes due 2056 and $660M of 6.75% notes due 2057.
- Early exchange consideration: $25 principal + $0.0625 cash per $25; standard: $24.25 principal.
- Early participation deadline May 8, 2026; offers expire May 26, 2026.
- Qwest intends to delist old notes from NYSE (~April 30 Form 25, effective ~May 11) and deregister.
- Lumen provides full unconditional guarantee of the new notes on an unsecured basis.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-162876
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUMN
- cik: 0000018926
- company_name: Lumen Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-04-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312526162876/0001193125-26-162876-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312526162876/d98355d8k.htm

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