A Strong Commitment to North CarolinaCenturyLink is a partner in North Carolina’s economy. We invest in communications infrastructure, job creation, and modern technology for businesses, schools, universities, first responders, hospitals and local governments.

ContactCorporate HeadquartersCenturyLink, Inc. 100 CenturyLink DriveMonroe, Louisiana 71203www.centurylink.com318.388.9000

Investing Billions LocallyCenturyLink has a powerful, positive impact on North Carolina’s economy that includes:

• Invested $4.2 billion in our network and $361 million to expand broadband availability

• Making broadband available to 96% of our service areas in the state

• Providing high-speed Internet service to more than 340,000 customers

• Serving approximately 797,000 access lines

Helping Our Neighbors In NeedCenturyLink’s success is built upon a foundation of fundamental values expressed through our Unifying Principles: Fairness, Honesty & Integrity, Commitment to Excellence, Positive Attitude, Respect, Faith and Perseverance.

That’s why CenturyLink and its employees support:

The United WayArea schools, chambers of commerce, community colleges and arts councilsNC Zoological ParkGoodwill Industries Resource CenterRotary and Kiwanis ClubsHabitat for HumanitySamaritan’s PurseSalvation ArmyLenoir Rhyne University

Fayetteville State UniversityCampbell UniversitySpecial OlympicsGood Shepherd Food PantryBoys and Girls ClubsHospice of Harnett CountySandhills Children’s HomeThe American Red CrossChildren’s Miracle NetworkMS Walk

Spurring Job GrowthEvery day, our North Carolina employees work hard to satisfy our customers and provide outstanding service.

• More than $125 million in annual salaries for our 2,370 employees

• More than $40 million in transaction taxes

• More than $10 million in property taxes

Improve LivesStrengthen BusinessesConnect North Carolina

Data

Voice

Cloud Services

IT Solutions

Advanced Entertainment Services

Managed Hosting

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Investing in the FutureApproximately 47,000 employees nationwide work tirelessly each day to serve our customers, maintain and upgrade our voice and broadband network, and look to the future. With the people, products and capabilities we’ve added, CenturyLink has the right strategies and assets in place to respond to business and consumer needs and continue transforming our company.

• We have enhanced our broadband network capabilities — extending our footprint, upgrading speeds and adding features and functionality.

• CenturyLink® Prism™ TV service is expanding into new markets, providing competition and choice for video services to citizens across America.

• As consumer demand for wireless broadband grows, we have invested in our fiber to the tower initiative to strengthen our data transport capabilities and enhance our local fiber networks.

• And CenturyLink is meeting the needs of our enterprise customer base and small-to-medium-size businesses by establishing ourselves as a global leader in managed hosting and cloud computing services.

We believe the future holds great potential for CenturyLink. Our focus is on achieving that potential — both near and long term — for the benefit of our customers.

A Leading Global Telecommunications ProviderAt CenturyLink, our products and services improve lives. We work hard every day to help families stay connected, businesses operate efficiently and governments serve their citizens. The benefits of our communications, entertainment and data hosting services are more significant and more widespread than ever before.

Our goal is to provide to our customers the products and services they need to communicate better, explore further and achieve what is important to them, whether that person is the chief information officer of a Fortune 500 company operating in complex global networks or a grade-school student researching a school project on a home computer.

Delivering Advanced Technologies and SolutionsCenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States and is recognized as a leader in the network services market by technology industry analyst firms. The company is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprise customers. CenturyLink provides data, voice and managed services in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers for businesses and consumers. The company also offers advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink® Prism™ TV and DIRECTV brands. Headquartered in Monroe, La., CenturyLink is an S&P 500 company and is included among the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations.

1930 – William Clarke and Marie Williams purchase Oak Ridge Telephone Company for $500, 75 subscribers

1946 – Clarke McRae Williams returns from WWII, marries Mary Kathryn Lee, and they receive the company as a wedding gift

1968 – Incorporated as Central Telephone and Electronics serving 10,000 customers in three states

1971 – Named Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc.

1978 – Shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time October 24

1983 – Clarke Williams Jr. became President of Century

1989 – Paid $90 million for outstanding stock of Universal Telephone, Inc.

1992 – Paid $135 million for Central Telephone Company of Ohio. Glen F. Post III named CEO

1996 – Surpassed 500,000 customer mark

1998 – Added 89,000 access lines in Wisconsin with $221 million purchase from Ameritech

2007 – Added 165,000 access lines and 2,400 mile fiber network with purchases in Alabama, Illinois, Georgia and North Carolina

2009 – Acquired Embarq Corporation, formerly the local telephone division of Sprint, creating the fourth largest telecommunications provider — based on access lines — in the United States

2011 – Acquired Qwest Communications, who had merged with US WEST, one of the original regional Bell operating companies, in 2000.

Acquired Savvis, Inc, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions

2012 – CenturyLink is now the third largest telecommunication provider — based on access lines — in the United States,

has revenues of more than $18 billion, a national 230,000-mile fiber network and approximately 47,000 employees

Our History

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