Lumen is at the forefront of building a next-generation network designed to handle the explosive growth of AI and cloud workloads," said Dave Ward, Lumen's chief technology and product officer.

Lumen (NYSE: LUMN) stock got hit hard in Tuesday's trading. Its share price was down 10% just before market close on news that the company could wind up selling one of its units to AT&T.

March 25 (Reuters) - AT&T (T.N), opens new tab is in talks to acquire Lumen Technologies' (LUMN.N), opens new tab consumer fiber operations, in a deal that could value the unit at more than $5.5 ...