As of this Friday, CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) will cease to exist...as the name of a publicly traded company, anyway.
The company announced on Monday that, effective before market open this Friday, Sept. 18, it will be known instead as Lumen Technologies, or more briefly, Lumen. It will also receive a new ticker symbol for its shares that currently trade on the New York Stock Exchange: LUMN.
The name change is being made in order to emphasize CenturyLink's involvement in what the company terms the "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
Source Fool.com