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Long-Term Debt and Credit Facilities
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Long-Term Debt and Credit Facilities Long-Term Debt and Credit Facilities
The following table reflects the consolidated long-term debt of Lumen Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries as of the dates indicated below, including unamortized discounts and premiums and unamortized debt issuance costs:

Interest Rates(1)
Maturities(1)
March 31, 2023December 31, 2022
   (Dollars in millions)
Senior Secured Debt: (2)
Lumen Technologies, Inc.
Revolving Credit Facility
LIBOR + 2.00%
2025$— — 
Term Loan A(3)
LIBOR + 2.00%
2025977 991 
Term Loan A-1(3)
LIBOR + 2.00%
2025279 283 
Term Loan B(4)
LIBOR + 2.25%
20273,928 3,941 
Senior notes4.000%20271,250 1,250 
Subsidiaries:
Level 3 Financing, Inc.
Tranche B 2027 Term Loan(5)
LIBOR + 1.75%
20272,411 2,411 
Senior notes
3.400% - 10.500%
2027 - 2030
2,415 1,500 
Senior Notes and Other Debt:    
Lumen Technologies, Inc.
Senior notes
4.500% - 7.650%
2023 - 2042
2,162 3,722 
Subsidiaries:
Level 3 Financing, Inc.
Senior notes
3.625% - 4.625%
2027 - 2029
3,940 3,940 
Qwest Corporation
Senior notes
6.500% - 7.750%
2025 - 2057
1,986 1,986 
Term loan(6)
LIBOR + 2.50%
2027215 215 
Qwest Capital Funding, Inc.
Senior notes
6.875% - 7.750%
2028 - 2031
192 192 
Finance lease and other obligationsVariousVarious306 317 
Unamortized discounts, net  (3)(7)
Unamortized debt issuance costs(162)(169)
Total long-term debt  19,896 20,572 
Less current maturities   (153)(154)
Long-term debt, excluding current maturities  $19,743 20,418 
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(1)As of March 31, 2023.
(2)See Note 7—Long-Term Debt and Credit Facilities in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 for a description of certain parent or subsidiary guarantees and liens securing this debt.
(3)Term Loans A and A-1 had interest rates of 6.922% and 6.384% as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
(4)Term Loan B had interest rates of 7.172% and 6.634% as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
(5)The Level 3 Tranche B 2027 Term Loan had interest rates of 6.672% and 6.134% as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
(6)The Qwest Corporation Term Loan had interest rates of 7.422% and 6.640% as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
Long-Term Debt Maturities

Set forth below is the aggregate principal amount of our long-term debt as of March 31, 2023 (excluding unamortized discounts, net, and unamortized debt issuance costs), maturing during the following years. As a result of classifying our EMEA business as held for sale on our March 31, 2023 consolidated balance sheet, the amounts presented below do not include maturities of the finance lease obligations of that business. See Note 2—Planned Divestiture of the EMEA Business.

 (Dollars in millions)
2023 (remaining nine months)$115 
2024157 
20251,665 
2026498 
20279,386 
2028 and thereafter8,240 
Total long-term debt$20,061 

Borrowings and Repayments

Pursuant to exchange offers that commenced on March 16, 2023 (the “Exchange Offers”), on March 31, 2023, Level 3 Financing, Inc. issued $915 million of its 10.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2030 (the “10.500% Notes”) in exchange for $1.535 billion of Lumen’s outstanding senior unsecured notes, which were concurrently cancelled. These transactions resulted in a net reduction in the aggregate principal amount of Lumen’s consolidated indebtedness of approximately $620 million. In addition, we repurchased $24 million of Lumen's outstanding senior unsecured notes during the first quarter of 2023. These above-described transactions resulted in an aggregate gain of $609 million.

The following table sets forth the aggregate principal amount of each series of Lumen’s senior unsecured notes exchanged and retired on March 31, 2023:

Debt(Aggregate principal amount in millions)
5.625% Senior Notes, Series X, due 2025
$48 
7.200% Senior Notes, Series D, due 2025
21 
5.125% Senior Notes due 2026
291 
6.875% Debentures, Series G, due 2028
52 
5.375% Senior Notes due 2029
275 
4.500% Senior Notes due 2029
556 
7.600% Senior Notes, Series P, due 2039
161 
7.650% Senior Notes, Series U, due 2042
131 
Total$1,535 

Level 3 Financing, Inc.’s obligations under the 10.500% Notes will be guaranteed on a secured basis by its direct parent, Level 3 Parent, LLC, and certain of its material domestic subsidiaries that guarantee the term loan under Level 3 Financing, Inc.’s existing senior secured credit facility and existing senior secured notes (the “Issuer’s Secured Debt”), subject in certain instances to receipt of regulatory approvals. Such guarantees, when provided by each entity, will be secured by liens on substantially the same collateral that is pledged to secure the Issuer’s Secured Debt.
Covenants

Certain of our debt instruments contain affirmative and negative covenants. Debt at Lumen Technologies, Inc. and Level 3 Financing, Inc. contains more extensive covenants including, among other things and subject to certain exceptions, restrictions on the ability to declare or pay dividends, repay certain other indebtedness, create liens, incur additional indebtedness, make investments, engage in transactions with affiliates, dispose of assets and merge or consolidate with any other person. Also, Lumen Technologies, Inc. and certain of its affiliates will be required to offer to purchase certain of their respective outstanding debt under defined circumstances in connection with specified "change of control" transactions.

Certain of our debt instruments contain cross-payment default or cross-acceleration provisions.

Compliance

As of March 31, 2023, Lumen Technologies, Inc. believes it and its subsidiaries were in compliance with the provisions and financial covenants in their respective material debt agreements in all material respects.

Subsequent Event - Issuance of Senior Secured Notes

On April 17, 2023, in connection with the Exchange Offers, Level 3 Financing, Inc. issued an additional $9 million of its 10.500% Notes in exchange for $19 million aggregate principal amount of Lumen’s senior unsecured notes.