Level 3 Parent Llc
We are an international facilities-based provider of a broad range of integrated
communications services. A facilities-based provider is a provider that owns
or leases a substantial portion of the plant, property and equipment necessary
to provide its services. We have created our international communications network
by constructing our own assets and through a combination of purchasing other
companies and purchasing or leasing facilities from others. We designed our
network to provide communications services that employ and take advantage of
rapidly improving underlying optical, Internet Protocol, computing and storage
technologies.
Our company was incorporated as Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc. in Delaware in
1941 to continue a construction business founded in Omaha, Nebraska in 1884.
In subsequent years, we invested a portion of the cash flow generated by our
construction activities in a variety of other businesses, including, among other
things, the communications business. In 1998, our historical construction business
was split off from the remainder of our operations. In conjunction with the
split-off, we changed our name to “Level 3 Communications, Inc.,”
and the entity that was split-off and held the prior construction business was
named “Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc.”