Sebastiano Petti
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

Good morning, everyone. I'm Sebastiano Petti, and I cover the telecom, cable and satellite space for JPMorgan. I want to welcome Chris Stansbury, President and CFO of Lumen. Chris, thanks for joining us this morning.

Christopher Stansbury
President & CFO

Great to be here.

Sebastiano Petti
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

I think you have a safe harbor perhaps.

Christopher Stansbury
President & CFO

We do have a safe harbor, and it's on our website. I'm not going to try to recite it for memory, but take a look. And obviously, we'll have a good conversation today, but I'm not making any comments on forward-looking stuff.

Sebastiano Petti
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

I don't want Jim to get mad at this one.

Christopher Stansbury
President & CFO

Exactly. Thank you for that reminder because I always forget and he does get angry at me.

Sebastiano Petti
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

So Lumen has had a busy start to the year. So you closed on the fiber-to-the-home sale to AT&T. Just a couple of weeks ago, announced the acquisition of Alkira. So let's start at the top. As you look at the rest of the year, what are your biggest priorities? How do you see those priorities fitting together to set up Lumen for success long term?

Christopher Stansbury
President & CFO

Yes. As we gave our annual guidance, we said this is the year that we're going to inflect EBITDA, and we are going to do that. We remain committed to that. It's