Products and Services Revenues

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Products and Services Revenues

Products and Services Revenues

We are an integrated communications company engaged primarily in providing an array of communications services, including local voice, network access, private line (including special access), broadband, Ethernet, data, wireless and video services. We strive to maintain our customer relationships by, among other things, bundling our service offerings to provide our customers with a complete offering of integrated communications services. We categorize our products and services revenues into the following three categories:

• Strategic services, which include primarily private line (including special access), broadband, Ethernet, video (including resold satellite video services) and Verizon Wireless services;

• Legacy services, which include primarily local voice, Integrated Services Digital Network ("ISDN") (which uses regular telephone lines to support voice, video and data applications), switched access and traditional wide area network ("WAN") services (which allows a local communications network to link to networks in remote locations); and

• Affiliates and other services, which consist primarily of Universal Service Fund ("USF") revenues and surcharges and services we provide to our non-consolidated affiliates. We provide to our affiliates telecommunication services that we also provide to external customers. In addition, we provide to our affiliates computer system development and support services as well as network support and technical services.

Our operating revenues for our products and services consisted of the following categories:

	Three Months Ended   September 30,			Nine Months Ended   September 30,
	2013		2012	2013	2012
	(Dollars in millions)
Strategic services	$	835	819	2,495	2,442
Legacy services	797		860	2,427	2,634
Affiliates and other services	556		504	1,624	1,562
Total operating revenues	$	2,188	2,183	6,546	6,638

We do not have any single external customer that provides more than 10% of our total revenue. Substantially all of our revenue comes from customers located in the United States.

Affiliates and other services revenues include revenues from universal service funds which allow us to recover a portion of our costs under federal and state cost recovery mechanisms and certain surcharges to our customers, including billings for our required contributions to several USF programs.

The table below presents the aggregate USF surcharges recognized on a gross basis:

	Three Months Ended   September 30,			Nine Months Ended   September 30,
	2013		2012	2013	2012
	(Dollars in millions)
USF and surcharges included in operating revenues and expenses	$	39	42	116	129

Our operations are integrated into and reported as part of the segments of CenturyLink. CenturyLink's chief operating decision maker ("CODM") is our CODM, but reviews our financial information on an aggregate basis only in connection with our quarterly and annual reports that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, we do not provide our discrete financial information to the CODM on a regular basis. As such, we have one reportable segment.