{"id":952002,"date":"2025-08-02T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952002"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:59:18","slug":"lumen-narrows-loss-lifts-free-cash-flow-forecast-on-tax-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/02\/lumen-narrows-loss-lifts-free-cash-flow-forecast-on-tax-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumen narrows loss, lifts free cash flow forecast on tax savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lumen Technologies on Thursday reported a smaller-than-expected second-quarter loss and raised its full-year free cash flow forecast by more than 60%, helped by cost savings from President Trump&#8217;s tax cut legislation. <\/p>\n<p>The telecom and networking firm posted an adjusted loss of 3 cents per share, compared with analysts&#8217; expectations of a 26-cent loss, according to data compiled by LSEG. <\/p>\n<p>Lumen now expects 2025 free cash flow between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, up from a prior range of $700 million to $900 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lumen Technologies on Thursday reported a smaller-than-expected second-quarter loss and raised its full-year free cash flow forecast by more than 60%, helped by cost savings from President Trump&#8217;s tax cut legislation. The telecom and networking firm posted an adjusted loss of 3 cents per share, compared with analysts&#8217; expectations of a 26-cent loss, according to data compiled by LSEG. Lumen now expects 2025 free cash flow between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, up from a prior range of $700 million to $900 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}