|  Delaware                                                                  |   |   06-0619596                                    |
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|    (State of incorporation or organization)                                |   |     (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
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|   3 High Ridge Park, Stamford, Connecticut        |   |   06905                                         |
|    (Address of principal executive offices)                 |   |    (Zip Code)                              |

| Title of each classto be so registered | Name of each exchange on which each class is to be registered |
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| ·   | determining the number of shares to be included in each series; |
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| ·   | fixing the designation, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional, conversion and other rights of the shares of each series and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions with respect to each series; and |
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| ·   | increasing or decreasing the number of shares of any series. |
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| ·   | listed on a national securities exchange or held of record by more than 2,000 holders; or |
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| ·   | for which, pursuant to the plan of merger or consolidation, stockholders will receive (1) shares or depositary receipts of another corporation which at the effective date of the merger or consolidation will be either listed on a national securities exchange or held of record by more than 2,000 holders, (2) shares of stock or depositary receipts of the surviving corporation in the merger or consolidation, (3) cash for fractional shares or (4) any combination of (1) – (3).  In addition, the DGCL provides that, unless the corporation’s certificate of incorporation provides otherwise, stockholders of a surviving corporation do not have the right to dissent from a plan of merger if the merger did not require forits approval the vote of the stockholders. |
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| ·   | the business combination, or the transaction in which the stockholder became an interested stockholder, is approved by the Board prior to the time the interested stockholder attained that status; |
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| ·   | upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding those shares owned by persons who are directors and also officers and by employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or |
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| ·   | at or after the time a person became an interested stockholder, the business combination is approved by the Board and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder. |
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| ·   | through the notice of meeting; |
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| ·   | by the Board; or |
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| ·   | by a stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting. |
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| ·   | for any breach of the directors’ duty of loyalty to Frontier or its stockholders; |
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| ·   | for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; |
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| ·   | for acts relating to the unlawful payment of a dividend or an unlawful stock purchase or redemption; or |
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| ·   | for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. |
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| ·   | ten business days following a public announcement that a person or group, subject to certain exceptions, has acquired 15% or more of the outstanding shares of Frontier Common Stock (thereby becoming an “acquiring person” under the stockholder rights plan); |
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| ·   | ten business days following the commencement of a tender offer or exchange offer that would result in a person or group becoming an acquiring person; and |
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| ·   | a merger or other business combination transaction involving Frontier. |
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| 3.1 | Restated Certificate of Incorporation (filed as Exhibit 3.200.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2000).* |
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| 3.2 | Certificate of Amendment of Restated Certificate of Incorporation, effective July 31, 2008 (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2008).* |
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| 3.3 | Certificate of Amendment of Restated Certificate of Incorporation, effective June 28, 2010 (filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 1,2010).* |
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| 3.4 | By-laws, as amended February 6, 2009 (filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 6, 2009).* |
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| 4.1 | Rights Agreement, dated as of March 6, 2002, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services, LLC, as Rights Agent (filed as Exhibit 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on March 22, 2002).* |
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| 4.2 | Amendment No. 1 to Rights Agreement, dated as of January 16, 2003, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as Rights Agent (filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A, dated January 16, 2003).* |
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| 4.3 | Amendment No. 2 to Rights Agreement, dated as of May 12, 2009, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as Rights Agent (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the May 15, 2009 8-K).* |
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|                               | FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION |
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| Date:  December 14, 2011 | By:/s/ David R. Whitehouse          |
|                               | David R. Whitehouse                 |
|                               | Senior Vice President and Treasurer |
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