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Long-Term Debt and Note Payable - Affiliate (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of long-term debt, including unamortized discounts and premiums | The following chart reflects (i) the consolidated long-term debt of Qwest Corporation and its subsidiaries, including finance lease and other obligations, unamortized premiums, net, unamortized debt issuance costs and (ii) note payable-affiliate:
|  |  |  |  | As of December 31,
| Interest Rates (1) |  | Maturities (1) |  | 2022 |  | 2021
|  |  |  |  | (Dollars in millions)
Senior notes | 6.500% - 7.750% |  | 2025 - 2057 |  | $ | 1,986 |  |  | 1,986 |
Term loan (2) | LIBOR + 2.25% |  | 2027 |  | 215 |  |  | 215 |
Finance lease and other | Various |  | Various |  | 3 |  |  | 2 |
Unamortized premiums, net |  |  |  |  | 5 |  |  | 6 |
Unamortized debt issuance costs |  |  |  |  | (52) |  |  | (53) |
Total long-term debt |  |  |  |  | 2,157 |  |  | 2,156 |
Less current maturities |  |  |  |  | (2) |  |  | — |
Long-term debt, excluding current maturities |  |  |  |  | $ | 2,155 |  |  | 2,156 |
Note payable-affiliate | 5.424% |  | 2027 |  | $ | — |  |  | 1,187 |
_______________________________________________________________________________ (1) As of December 31, 2022. (2) Qwest Corporation's Term Loan had interest rates of 6.640% and 2.110% as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
Schedule of aggregate maturities of the entity's long-term debt (excluding unamortized premiums, discounts, and other) | Set forth below is the aggregate principal amount of our long-term debt as of December 31, 2022 (excluding unamortized premiums, net, unamortized debt issuance costs and note payable-affiliate) maturing during the following years:
| (Dollars in millions)
2023 | $ | 2 |
2024 | — |
2025 | 251 |
2026 | — |
2027 | 215 |
2028 and thereafter | 1,736 |
Total long-term debt | $ | 2,204 |
Schedule of amount of gross interest expense, net of capitalized interest and interest expense (income)-affiliates | Interest expense includes interest on total long-term debt. The following table presents the amount of gross interest expense, net of capitalized interest and interest expense-affiliates, net:
| Years Ended December 31,
| 2022 |  | 2021 |  | 2020
| (Dollars in millions)
Interest expense: |  |  |  |  |
Gross interest expense | $ | 141 |  |  | 200 |  |  | 308 |
Capitalized interest | (29) |  |  | (19) |  |  | (29) |
Total interest expense | $ | 112 |  |  | 181 |  |  | 279 |
Interest expense-affiliates, net | $ | 60 |  |  | 105 |  |  | 74 |

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