Products and Services Revenues

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 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, broadband, private line (including special access, which we market to our business and wholesale customers), network access, Ethernet, information technology, 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 into the following three categories:

• Strategic services, which include primarily broadband, private line (including special access, which we market to our business and wholesale customers), Ethernet, video (including resold satellite video services) and Verizon Wireless services;

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

• Affiliates and other services, which consist primarily of USF revenues and surcharges and services we provide to our non-consolidated affiliates. We provide to our affiliates telecommunications services that we also provide to external customers. In addition, we provide to our affiliates computer system development and support services, network support and technical services.

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 believe we have one reportable segment.

Operating revenues for our products and services are summarized below:

	Successor				Predecessor
	Year   Ended   December 31,   2013		Year   Ended   December 31,   2012	Nine Months   Ended   December 31,    2011	Three Months    Ended    March 31,    2011
	(Dollars in millions)
Strategic services	$	3,342	3,265	2,406	792
Legacy services	3,208		3,471	2,796	1,003
Affiliates and other services	2,203		2,112	1,433	473
Total operating revenues	$	8,753	8,848	6,635	2,268

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

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

	Successor				Predecessor
	Year   Ended   December 31,   2013		Year   Ended   December 31,   2012	Nine Months   Ended   December 31,    2011	Three Months    Ended    March 31,    2011
	(Dollars in millions)
Taxes and surcharges included in operating revenues and expenses	$	154	171	122	43