http://www.newsweek.com/century-link-down-outages-not-working-users-1272587

Many CenturyLink users trying to log-in to the internet, watch their favorite TV  show or make calls Thursday were unable to do so due to widespread national CenturyLink outages. 

CenturyLink services have been down most fo the day Thursday, with users first reporting the outages around 3:50 a.m. EST, according to website outage tracking website DownDetector.