Tony Davis - CenturyLink, Inc.
Management
Thank you, Ash, and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our call today to discuss CenturyLink's fourth quarter 2017 earnings results released earlier this afternoon. The slide presentation we will be reviewing during the prepared remarks portion of today's call is available in the Investor Relations section of our corporate website at ir.centurylink.com. At the conclusion of our prepared remarks today, we will open the call for Q&A. As you move to slide two, you'll find our Safe Harbor language. We will be making certain forward-looking statements today, particularly as they pertain to guidance for full-year 2018 and other outlooks in our business. Unless otherwise noted, prior periods are provided on a year-over-year basis. Metrics discussed today on the call exclude acquisition-related expenses associated with the Level 3 transaction. Those metrics are adjusted EBITDA, capital expenditures, free cash flow and net leverage, and we've footnoted the details in our press release and earnings presentation. Pro forma results discussed today exclude the May 1, 2017, sale of the data centers and colocation business and reflect purchase accounting adjustments and intercompany eliminations related to the November 1, 2017, acquisition of Level 3 by CenturyLink. We also ask that you review our disclosure found on this slide, as well as in our press release and in our SEC filings, which describe factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected by us in our forward-looking statements. Now moving to slide 3, we ask that you also note that our earnings release issued earlier this afternoon and the slide presentation and remarks made during this call contain certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations between these non-GAAP financial measures and the most comparable GAAP financial measures are available in our earnings release and on our website at ir.centurylink.com. And now as we move to slide 4, your host for today's call is Glen Post, CenturyLink's Chief Executive Officer. Joining Glen on today's call are Jeff Storey, CenturyLink's President and Chief Operating Officer; and Sunit Patel, CenturyLink's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our call today will be available for telephone replay and webcast replay through May 8, 2018. Anyone listening to a telephone or webcast replay or reading a written transcript of this call should note that all information presented is current only as of today, February 14, 2018, and should be considered valid only as of this date regardless of the date heard or viewed. And now as we move to slide 5, I'll turn the call over to Glen Post. Glen?