Document:

Second Amended Credit Agreement

 Exhibit 10.2 
  
  
 SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT 
 dated as of 
 July 17, 2006 
 as amended and restated as of 
 October 19, 2009 
 among 
 WINDSTREAM CORPORATION 
 (formerly known as ALLTEL HOLDING CORP.), 
 The Lenders Party Hereto 
 and 
 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., 
 as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, 
 and 
 CITIBANK, N.A. 
 and 
 WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
 as Co-Documentation Agents 
  
  
 J.P. MORGAN
SECURITIES INC. 
 and 
 BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC 
 as Joint Bookrunners and Lead Arrangers

  
  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

			
	 	  	PAGE
	
	 ARTICLE 1

	 DEFINITIONS

		
	 Section 1.01. Defined Terms
	  	1
	 Section 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings
	  	48
	 Section 1.03. Terms Generally
	  	49
	 Section 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP
	  	49
	 Section 1.05. Pro Forma Calculations
	  	49
	
	 ARTICLE 2

	 THE CREDITS

		
	 Section 2.01. Loans
	  	50
	 Section 2.02. Loans and Borrowings
	  	54
	 Section 2.03. Requests for Borrowings
	  	54
	 Section 2.04. Letters of Credit
	  	55
	 Section 2.05. Funding of Borrowings
	  	61
	 Section 2.06. Interest Elections
	  	62
	 Section 2.07. Termination, Reduction and Extension of Commitments
	  	64
	 Section 2.08. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt
	  	66
	 Section 2.09. Scheduled Amortization of Term Loans
	  	67
	 Section 2.10. Optional and Mandatory Prepayment of Loans
	  	70
	 Section 2.11. Fees
	  	74
	 Section 2.12. Interest
	  	75
	 Section 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest
	  	76
	 Section 2.14. Increased Costs
	  	76
	 Section 2.15. Break Funding Payments
	  	77
	 Section 2.16. Taxes
	  	78
	 Section 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs
	  	81
	 Section 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
	  	83
	
	 ARTICLE 3

	 REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES

		
	 Section 3.01. Organization; Powers
	  	84
	 Section 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability
	  	84
	 Section 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts
	  	85
	 Section 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change
	  	85
	 Section 3.05. Properties
	  	85
	 Section 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters
	  	86
	 Section 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements
	  	86
	 Section 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status
	  	87

  

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	 Section 3.09. Taxes
	  	87
	 Section 3.10. ERISA
	  	87
	 Section 3.11. Disclosure
	  	87
	 Section 3.12. Subsidiaries
	  	87
	 Section 3.13. Insurance
	  	88
	 Section 3.14. Labor Matters
	  	88
	 Section 3.15. Solvency
	  	88
	 Section 3.16. Licenses; Franchises
	  	89
	 Section 3.17. OFAC
	  	90
	
	 ARTICLE 4

	 CONDITIONS

		
	 Section 4.01. [Reserved].
	  	90
	 Section 4.02. [Reserved].
	  	90
	 Section 4.03. Each Credit Event
	  	90
	
	 ARTICLE 5

	 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

		
	 Section 5.01. Financial Statements; Ratings Change and Other Information
	  	91
	 Section 5.02. Notices of Material Events
	  	93
	 Section 5.03. Information Regarding Collateral
	  	94
	 Section 5.04. Existence; Conduct of Business
	  	95
	 Section 5.05. Payment of Obligations
	  	95
	 Section 5.06. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance; Casualty and Condemnation
	  	95
	 Section 5.07. Books and Records; Inspection Rights
	  	96
	 Section 5.08. Compliance with Laws
	  	96
	 Section 5.09. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit
	  	96
	 Section 5.10. Additional Subsidiaries
	  	97
	 Section 5.11. Further Assurances
	  	97
	 Section 5.12. Rated Credit Facilities
	  	98
	 Section 5.13. Windstream Communications
	  	98
	
	 ARTICLE 6

	 NEGATIVE COVENANTS

		
	 Section 6.01. Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities
	  	99
	 Section 6.02. Liens
	  	102
	 Section 6.03. Fundamental Changes
	  	104
	 Section 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions
	  	105
	 Section 6.05. Asset Sales
	  	108
	 Section 6.06. Sale and Leaseback Transactions
	  	110
	 Section 6.07. Swap Agreements
	  	110

  

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	 Section 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Debt
	  	110
	 Section 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates
	  	114
	 Section 6.10. Restrictive Agreements
	  	114
	 Section 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents
	  	115
	 Section 6.12. Change in Fiscal Year
	  	116
	 Section 6.13. Capital Expenditures
	  	116
	 Section 6.14. Interest Coverage Ratio
	  	116
	 Section 6.15. Leverage Ratio
	  	116
	
	 ARTICLE 7

	 EVENTS OF DEFAULT

	
	 ARTICLE 8

	 THE AGENTS

	
	 ARTICLE 9

	 MISCELLANEOUS

		
	 Section 9.01. Notices
	  	122
	 Section 9.02. Waivers; Amendments
	  	123
	 Section 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver
	  	127
	 Section 9.04. Successors and Assigns
	  	128
	 Section 9.05. Survival
	  	134
	 Section 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness
	  	134
	 Section 9.07. Severability
	  	134
	 Section 9.08. Right of Setoff
	  	135
	 Section 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
	  	135
	 Section 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	  	136
	 Section 9.11. Headings
	  	136
	 Section 9.12. Confidentiality
	  	136
	 Section 9.13. USA PATRIOT ACT
	  	138
	 Section 9.14. Interest Rate Limitation
	  	138
	 Section 9.15. Amendments to Security Documents
	  	138
		
	 SCHEDULES:
	  	
		
	 Schedule 1.01-A – Additional Facility Obligations
	  	
	 Schedule 1.01-B – Existing Letters of Credit
	  	
	 Schedule 2.01 – Commitments
	  	
	 Schedule 3.05 – Real Properties
	  	
	 Schedule 3.06 – Disclosed Matters
	  	
	 Schedule 3.12 – Subsidiaries
	  	
	 Schedule 3.13 – Insurance
	  	

  

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 Schedule 5.10 – Certain Regulated Subsidiaries 
 Schedule 6.01 – Existing Indebtedness 
 Schedule 6.02 – Existing Liens 
 Schedule 6.04 – Existing Investments 
 Schedule 6.06 – Sale and Leaseback Transactions 
 Schedule 6.09 – Transactions with Affiliates 
 Schedule 6.10 – Existing Restrictions 
 EXHIBITS: 
  

					
	Exhibit A	 	–	 	Form of Assignment and Assumption
	Exhibit B-1	 	–	 	Form of Opinion of John P. Fletcher, Esq., General Counsel of the Borrower
	Exhibit B-2	 	–	 	Form of Opinion of Kutak Rock LLP, special counsel for the Loan Parties
	Exhibit B-3	 	–	 	Form of Opinion of Willkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, special regulatory counsel for the Loan Parties
	Exhibit C	 	–	 	Form of Guarantee Agreement
	Exhibit D	 	–	 	Form of Security Agreement
	Exhibit E	 	–	 	Form of Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement
	Exhibit F	 	–	 	Form of Extension Agreement
	Exhibit G	 	–	 	Form of Conversion Agreement

  

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 SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of July 17, 2006 and amended and
restated as of October 19, 2009, among WINDSTREAM CORPORATION (formerly known as ALLTEL HOLDING CORP.), the LENDERS party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and CITIBANK, N.A. and WACHOVIA BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Co-Documentation Agents. 
 PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS 
 The Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent are party to the Original Credit Agreement, which has been amended and restated in
the form of the Existing ARCA (such terms and other capitalized terms used in these preliminary statements being defined in Section 1.01 hereof). Pursuant to the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, and upon satisfaction of the conditions set
forth therein, the Existing ARCA is being further amended and restated in the form of this Amended Agreement. 
 The parties
hereto agree as follows: 
 ARTICLE 1 
 DEFINITIONS 
 Section 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in
this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below: 
 “2006 Equity Incentive Plan” means
Windstream Corporation’s 2006 Equity Incentive Plan, attached as Annex G to the Registration Statement. 
 “2011
Commitment Fee Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to (a) if the Leverage Ratio on the most recent determination date is 2.00 to 1.0 or higher, 0.25% and (b) otherwise, 0.20%. For purposes of this definition,
(x) the Leverage Ratio shall be determined as of the end of each Fiscal Quarter based on the Borrower’s consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) and (y) each change in the 2011 Commitment
Fee Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period from and including the day when the Administrative Agent receives the financial statements indicating such change to but excluding the effective date of the
next such change; provided that, at the option of the Administrative Agent (or at the request of the Required Lenders), if the Borrower fails to deliver consolidated financial statements to the Administrative Agent as and when required by
Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), the 2011 Commitment Fee Rate will be that set forth in clause (a) above during the period from the expiration of the time specified for such delivery until such financial statements are so delivered. 

 “2011 Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each 2011 Revolving
Lender, the commitment of such 2011 Revolving Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The
initial amount of each 2011 Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “2011 Revolving Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its
2011 Revolving Commitment, as applicable. 
 “2011 Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any 2011
Revolving Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s 2011 Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure at such time. 
 “2011 Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a 2011 Revolving Commitment or, if the 2011 Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with a 2011 Revolving Credit Exposure.

 “2011 Revolving Loan” means a Loan made by a 2011 Revolving Lender pursuant to its 2011 Revolving
Commitment. 
 “2013 Commitment Fee Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to (a) if the
Leverage Ratio on the most recent determination date is 2.00 to 1.0 or higher, 0.50% and (b) otherwise, 0.40%. For purposes of this definition, (x) the Leverage Ratio shall be determined as of the end of each Fiscal Quarter based on the
Borrower’s consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) and (y) each change in the 2013 Commitment Fee Rate resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period from
and including the day when the Administrative Agent receives the financial statements indicating such change to but excluding the effective date of the next such change; provided that, at the option of the Administrative Agent (or at the
request of the Required Lenders), if the Borrower fails to deliver consolidated financial statements to the Administrative Agent as and when required by Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), the 2013 Commitment Fee Rate will be that set forth in clause
(a) above during the period from the expiration of the time specified for such delivery until such financial statements are so delivered. 
 “2013 Notes” means the 8 1/8% senior unsecured notes due 2013 of the Borrower issued under Rule 144A under the Securities Act on or prior to the Effective Date in an aggregate principal amount of $800,000,000. 
 “2013 Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each 2013 Revolving Lender, the commitment of such 2013 Revolving Lender
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Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure
hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount
of each 2013 Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “2013 Revolving Commitment”, in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its 2013 Revolving
Commitment, or, in the case of any 2011 Revolving Lender that has extended its 2011 Revolving Commitment to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to 2013 Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.07(d), in the applicable Extension Agreement.

 “2013 Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any 2013 Revolving Lender at any time, the sum of
the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s 2013 Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure at such time. 
 “2013
Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a 2013 Revolving Commitment or, if the 2013 Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with a 2013 Revolving Credit Exposure. 
 “2013 Revolving Loan” means a Loan made by a 2013 Revolving Lender pursuant to a 2013 Revolving Commitment. 
 “2016 Notes” means the 8 5/8% senior unsecured notes due 2016 of the Borrower issued to Alltel
on or prior to the Effective Date in an aggregate principal amount of $1,746,000,000. 
 “2019 Notes”
means the 7% senior unsecured notes due 2019 of the Borrower issued under Rule 144A under the Securities Act in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $500,000,000. 
 “ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such
Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate. 
 “AC Holdings”
means Windstream Holdings of the Midwest, a Nebraska corporation (formerly known as Alltel Communications Holdings of the Midwest, Inc.). 
 “AC Holdings Bonds” means the 6 3/4% Notes due 2028 issued by AC Holdings in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $100,000,000. 
 “AC Holdings Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of February 23, 1998 under which the AC Holdings Bonds were issued. 
  

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 “Acquisition” means any purchase or acquisition by any Wireline Company in
a single transaction or a series of transactions individually or, together with its Affiliates, of (a) any Equity Interests in another Person which are sufficient to permit such Wireline Company and its Affiliates to Control such other Person
or (b) all or substantially all of the assets of, or assets comprising a division, unit or line of business of, another Person, whether or not involving a merger or consolidation with such other Person. “Acquire” has a meaning
correlative thereto. 
 “Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest
Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate. 
 “Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents, and its permitted successors in such capacity as provided in Article 8. 
 “Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent. 
 “Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with the Person specified. 
 “Agents” means the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the
Syndication Agent, the Co-Documentation Agents and the Lead Arrangers. 
 “Agreement”, when used with reference
to this Agreement, means the Amended Agreement, as it may be further amended from time to time. 
 “Alltel”
means Alltel Corporation, a Delaware corporation. 
 “Alltel Georgia” means Windstream Georgia Communications
Corp., a Georgia corporation (formerly known as Alltel Georgia Communications Corp.). 
 “Alltel
Georgia Bonds” means the 6 1/2% Debentures
due 2013 issued by Alltel Georgia in an aggregate principal amount of $80,000,000. 
 “Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus  1/2 of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest
Period in effect on such day plus 1%. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of 

  

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such change in the Prime Rate, Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively. 
 “Amended Agreement” means this Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of October 19, 2009. 
 “Amendment and Restatement Agreement” means the Amendment and Restatement Agreement dated as of October 8, 2009 among
the parties hereto. 
 “Amendment Effective Date” means February 27, 2007. 
 “Applicable Rate” means, for any day, the following percentages per annum: 
  

							
	 Class
	  	Eurodollar Loans	 	 	ABR Loans	 
	 2011 Revolving Loans
	  	1.25	% 	 	0.25	% 
	 2013 Revolving Loans
	  	2.25	% 	 	1.25	% 
	 Tranche A Term Loan
	  	1.25	% 	 	0.25	% 
	 Tranche A-2 Term Loan
	  	2.25	% 	 	1.25	% 
	 Tranche B-1 Term Loan
	  	1.50	% 	 	0.50	% 
	 Tranche B-2 Term Loan
	  	2.75	% 	 	1.75	% 
	 Incremental Loan
	  	Rate specified in the Incremental Facility Amendment	        

 “Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 9.04. 
 “Asset Disposition” means (a) any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition
(including pursuant to a Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of any assets of any Wireline Company pursuant to Section 6.05(b)(ii), (h), (k) or (n), (b) the issuance by any Subsidiary of any Equity Interest, or (c) the receipt by any
Subsidiary of any capital contribution, other than (x) any such issuance of an Equity Interest to, or the receipt of any such capital contribution from, another Wireline Company and (y) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued
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related transactions that involves assets or Equity Interests having a Fair Market Value of less than $25,000,000 shall not be deemed to be an Asset Disposition. 
 “Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent
of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent. 
 “Assumed Bonds” means the AC Holdings Bonds, the Alltel Georgia Bonds and the Assumed Valor Bonds. 
 “Assumed Valor Bonds” means the Valor Bonds. 
 “Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, at the time of determination, the present value of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during
the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended. Such present value will be calculated using a discount
rate equal to the rate of interest implicit in such transaction, determined in accordance with GAAP. 
 “Available
Cash” means, on any date of determination, an amount (which may be a negative amount) equal to the sum of the following in respect of the Wireline Companies on a consolidated basis for the period commencing on the first day of the first
Fiscal Quarter commencing after the Effective Date and ending on the last day of the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which a certificate shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(c) (and which the
Administrative Agent shall have had an opportunity to review for not less than five Business Days): 
 (a) Consolidated Adjusted
EBITDA for such period; plus 
 (b) to the extent not included in calculating such Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA, any
extraordinary or non-recurring cash gain during such period, other than any such gain resulting from any sale, transfer or other disposition of assets; minus 
 (c) without duplication and to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA, the sum of (i) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for such period, except to the extent
constituting Restricted Payments; (ii) all taxes of the Wireline Companies paid in cash during such period; and (iii) any extraordinary or nonrecurring loss, expense or charge paid in cash during such period; provided that amounts
shall be included in this clause (c) for any period only to the extent not duplicative of any cost or expense which was (x) included in determining Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period and

  

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(y) not been added back to such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income in determining Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for such period. 
 “Available Distributable Cash” means, on any date of determination, an amount (which may be a negative amount) equal to the
sum of: 
 (a) Available Cash as of such date of determination; minus  
 (b) without duplication, the sum of the following amounts, in each case for the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on such
date of determination: 
 (i) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made by the Wireline Companies during
such period, other than any such Restricted Payments (A) made to another Wireline Company, (B) paid from Available Equity Proceeds, (C) made as a part of the Transactions, (D) permitted under clause (ii), (ix) or
(xii) of Section 6.08(a) or (E) permitted under clause (x) of Section 6.08(a) to the extent not exceeding the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents owned by Valor immediately prior to, and by the Borrower immediately after
giving effect to, the Merger; 
 (ii) the aggregate amount of Investments, determined net (without duplication
of any other netting) of the aggregate amount of cash proceeds received by the Wireline Companies from any subsequent sale or repayment thereof, made by the Wireline Companies during such period, other than any such Investments (A) in
connection with a Permitted Acquisition, but only to the extent made or funded with (i) Equity Interests of the Borrower, (ii) the proceeds of Permitted Additional Debt, (iii) the proceeds of Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness,
(iv) the proceeds of Revolving Loans but only to the extent such Revolving Loans have been refinanced within 60 days with Permitted Additional Debt, Incremental Loans consisting of term loans, Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness or Available
Equity Proceeds or (v) Incremental Loans consisting of term loans, (B) in connection with a Permitted Asset Exchange, but only to the extent the consideration paid by the Wireline Companies consists of assets or properties (other than
cash) or cash consideration funded with the proceeds of Permitted Additional Debt, (C) in any Collateral Support Party (except, in the case of any Investment by a Loan Party in a Collateral Support Party that is not a Loan Party, to the extent
that the distribution or repayment to such Loan Party of such Investment is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its
charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Collateral Support Party or its equity holders), (D) funded from Available Equity

  

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Proceeds, (E) permitted under clause (a), (b), (g), (h), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n) (but only to the extent such Investment is reflected in and duplicative of all or a portion of a
Permitted Acquisition), (o), (p) or (q) of Section 6.04 or (F) in connection with the acquisition of CT Communications, Inc., and its subsidiaries; 
 (iii) the aggregate amount of payments made by the Wireline Companies to repay, prepay, redeem, defease or acquire for value
at or prior to stated maturity, or to refund, refinance or exchange, any Indebtedness (other than (A) Revolving Loans hereunder, (B) any of the Refinancings, or (C) any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(v) unless
such Indebtedness is a Distribution Advance) or make any other scheduled, mandatory or voluntary payment of any such Indebtedness, other than any such payments funded from (1) Available Equity Proceeds, (2) the proceeds of Permitted
Additional Debt or (3) the proceeds of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness; and 
 (iv) the aggregate amount
of Capital Expenditures made during such period, other than Capital Expenditures financed with (1) Available Equity Proceeds, (2) Reinvestment Funds or (3) the proceeds of a Debt Issuance (other than proceeds of Revolving Loans).

 “Available Equity Proceeds” means, on any date of determination, an amount equal to the sum of the following
amounts, in each case for the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on such date of determination: 
 (a) the
aggregate amount of Net Proceeds of any Equity Issuances (excluding Equity Issuances of Disqualified Stock but including Equity Issuances pursuant to the conversion or exchange of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock) during such period; minus

 (b) the aggregate amount of such Net Proceeds of Equity Issuances which have been applied prior to such date of determination
to fund any of the following payments, without duplication: 
 (i) all or a portion of the consideration payable
by the Wireline Companies in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; 
 (ii) Capital Expenditures; 

(iii) any other Investments, determined net (without duplication of any other netting) of the aggregate amount of cash
proceeds received by the Wireline Companies from any subsequent sale or repayment thereof, made by the Wireline Companies (other than (A) Investments in any Collateral Support Party (except, in the case of any Investment by a Loan

  

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Party in a Collateral Support Party that is not a Loan Party, to the extent that the distribution or repayment to such Loan Party of such Investment is not at the date of determination permitted
without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to
that Collateral Support Party or its equity holders); and (B) Investments permitted under clause (b), (h), (j), (k), (o), (n) (but only to the extent such Investment is reflected in and duplicative of all or a portion of a Permitted
Acquisition) or (q) of Section 6.04); 
 (iv) Restricted Payments made by the Wireline Companies
(other than Restricted Payments to any Wireline Company); provided that any such Restricted Payment by a Wireline Company to any other Person (other than another Wireline Company) which is made with the proceeds of a substantially
contemporaneous Restricted Payment from another Wireline Company shall be deemed to be a single Restricted Payment for these purposes; and 
 (v) any payments made by the Wireline Companies to repay, prepay, redeem, defease or acquire for value at or prior to stated maturity, or to refund, refinance or exchange any Indebtedness (other than
(i) Revolving Loans hereunder or (ii) any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(v), unless such Indebtedness is a Distribution Advance) or make any other scheduled, mandatory or voluntary payment of any such Indebtedness.

 “Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange
Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities
that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The terms “Beneficially
Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” will have a corresponding meaning. 
 “Board” means the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America. 
 “Borrower” means Windstream
Corporation, a Delaware corporation, together with its successors (as successor to ALLTEL Holding Corp., a Delaware corporation, pursuant to the Merger, and previously known as Valor). 
  

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 “Borrowing” means Loans of the same Class and Type, made, converted or
continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect. 
 “Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03. 
 “Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a
Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market. 
 “Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, (a) the additions to property, plant and equipment and other capital
expenditures of the Wireline Companies that are (or should be) set forth in a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Wireline Companies for such period prepared in accordance with GAAP and (b) any Capital Lease Obligations incurred by the
Wireline Companies during such period in connection with any such capital expenditures, but excluding (i) the Merger and Permitted Acquisitions, or (ii) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased substantially contemporaneously with
the trade-in of existing equipment but only to the extent such purchase price does not exceed the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time. 
 “Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease
of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the
amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP. 
 “Cash
Collateral Account” has the meaning specified in Section 8 of the Security Agreement. 
 “Cash
Consideration” means the consideration received by the Wireline Companies for any Asset Disposition that is in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or Replacement Assets or a combination of the foregoing. For purposes of this provision, each
of the following will be deemed to be cash: 
 (a) any liabilities (as shown on the Borrower’s most recent balance sheet)
of the Wireline Companies (other than contingent liabilities, Restricted Indebtedness and liabilities to the extent owed to any Wireline Company) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets or Equity Interests pursuant to a

  

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written assignment and assumption agreement that releases the applicable Wireline Companies from further liability therefor; 
 (b) any securities, notes or other obligations received by the Wireline Companies from such transferee that are converted by the Wireline
Companies into Cash Equivalents or Replacement Assets within 180 days of the receipt thereof (to the extent of the Cash Equivalents or Replacement Assets received in that conversion); and 
 (c) any Designated Noncash Consideration received by the Wireline Companies in such Asset Disposition having an aggregate Fair Market Value,
taken together with all other Designated Noncash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (c) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (x) 1.5% of Total Assets at such time and (y) $100,000,000 (with the
Fair Market Value of each item of Designated Noncash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value). 
 “Cash Equivalents” means: 
 (a) dollars and foreign currency
received in the ordinary course of business or exchanged into dollars within 180 days; 
 (b) securities issued or directly and
fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof), maturing, unless such securities are deposited
to defease any Indebtedness, not more than one year from the date of acquisition; 
 (c) certificates of deposit and eurodollar
time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any Lender Party or any domestic commercial bank having
capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 and a rating at the time of acquisition thereof of P-1 or better from Moody’s or A-1 or better from S&P; 
 (d) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (b) and (c) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in
clause (c) above; 
 (e) commercial paper issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Borrower) rated at least
“A-2” or higher from Moody’s or S&P and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition; 
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thereof, rated at least “A” by Moody’s or S&P and having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition; and 
 (g) money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (a) through
(f) of this definition. 
 “Cash Management Agreements” means all agreements between the Borrower and any
Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender (determined at the time such agreement is designated as a Cash Management Agreement pursuant to Section 20 of the Security Agreement) in respect of any overdraft and related liabilities arising from treasury,
depository and cash management services or any automated clearing house transfers of funds. 
 “Casualty Event”
means any casualty or other insured damage to any property of any Wireline Company with a fair market value immediately prior to such event of at least $10,000,000, or any taking of any such property under power of eminent domain or by condemnation
or similar proceeding, or any transfer of any such property in lieu of a condemnation or similar taking thereof. 
 “Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any
Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender, Issuing Bank or Participant (or, for purposes of Section 2.14(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or such Issuing
Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement. 
 “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: 
 (a) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the
Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the voting power of the Voting Stock of the Borrower; 
 (b) the
first day on which a majority of the members of the board of directors of the Borrower are not Continuing Directors; 
 (c) the
Borrower consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into any Wireline Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower or
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prior to such transaction continues as, or is converted into or exchanged for Voting Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the surviving or transferee Person constituting a majority of the
outstanding shares of such Voting Stock of such surviving or transferee Person (immediately after giving effect to such issuance) and (ii) immediately after such transaction, no “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in
Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes, directly or indirectly, the Beneficial Owner of 50% or more of the voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving or transferee Person; or 
 (d) the occurrence of any “Change in Control” (or similar event, however denominated) under any indenture or other agreement in
respect of Material Indebtedness, except for a “Change of Control” under the Valor Indenture resulting from the Merger. 
 “Class” (a) when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are 2011 Revolving Loans, 2013 Revolving Loans, Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche A-2 Term
Loans, Tranche B-1 Term Loans or Tranche B-2 Term Loans, (b) when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a 2011 Revolving Commitment, 2013 Revolving Commitment, Tranche A Commitment, Tranche A-2 Commitment,
Tranche B-1 Commitment or Tranche B-2 Commitment and (c) when used in reference to any Lender, refers to whether such Lender is a 2011 Revolving Lender, 2013 Revolving Lender, Tranche A Lender, Tranche A-2 Lender, Tranche B-1 Lender or Tranche
B-2 Lender. 
 “Co-Documentation Agents” means (i) prior to the Second ARCA Effective Date, Bank of
America, N.A., Citibank, N.A. and Wachovia Bank, National Association, each in its capacity as a co-documentation agent and (ii) on and after the Second ARCA Effective Date, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Wachovia Bank, National Association,
each in its capacity as a co-documentation agent. 
 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time. 
 “Collateral” means any and all “Collateral”, as defined in any applicable
Security Document. 
 “Collateral Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A, in its capacity as collateral agent
for the Secured Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and its permitted successors in such capacity as provided in Article 8. 
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 (a) the Collateral Agent shall have received from each Loan Party either
(i) counterparts of the Guarantee Agreement and the Security Agreement, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Loan Party, or (ii) in the case of any Person that becomes a Loan Party after the Effective Date, supplements to the
Guarantee Agreement and the Security Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person (within the time frames required thereby); 
 (b) all outstanding Equity Interests in and all outstanding promissory notes issued by any Wireline Company owned by or on behalf of any
Loan Party shall have been pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement (except that the Loan Parties shall not be required to pledge more than 66% of the outstanding voting Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party) and the
Collateral Agent shall have received all certificates or other instruments representing such Equity Interests (except to the extent such Equity Interests are not represented by certificates or other instruments) and Indebtedness, together with
undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank; 
 (c) except as otherwise
provided in the Security Agreement, all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens
intended to be created by the Security Documents and perfect or record such Liens to the extent, and with the priority, required by this Agreement and the Security Agreement, shall have been (or shall have made arrangements to provide for) filed,
registered or recorded or delivered to the Collateral Agent for filing, registration or recording; 
 (d) each Loan Party shall
have obtained all consents and approvals required to be obtained by it in connection with the execution and delivery of all Security Documents to which it is a party, the performance of its obligations thereunder and the granting of the Liens
granted by it thereunder, in each case to the extent required by this Agreement and the Security Documents; and 
 (e) each Loan
Party shall have taken all other action required to perfect, register and/or record the Liens granted by it thereunder, in each case to the extent required by this Agreement and the Security Documents. 
 “Collateral Support Parties” means (a) the Loan Parties, (b) each other Subsidiary (i) that is not required
to Guarantee the Facility Obligations pursuant to the Loan Documents (other than any Insignificant Subsidiary) and (ii) all Equity Interests in which, and all Indebtedness owing to any Loan Party of which, shall have been pledged and delivered
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(as defined in the Directories Equity Exchange Agreement) has not occurred, Directories Holdings. 
 “Commitment” means a Revolving Commitment, Tranche A Commitment, Tranche A-2 Commitment, Tranche B-1 Commitment or Tranche B-2 Commitment or a commitment to make Incremental Loans (as the
context may require). 
 “Commitment Fee Rate” means, with respect to 2011 Revolving Commitments, the 2011
Commitment Fee Rate, and with respect to 2013 Revolving Commitments, the 2013 Commitment Fee Rate. 
 “Commitment
Letter” means the Commitment Letter dated as of December 8, 2005 among Alltel, the Lead Arrangers and JPMCB and MLCC, as amended by the letter agreement among such parties dated April 12, 2006. 
 “Communications Act” means, collectively, the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, the rules and regulations of the FCC,
and written orders, policies, and decisions of the FCC and the courts’ interpretation of the foregoing. 
 “Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period plus, without duplication: 
 (a) provision for taxes based on income or profits of the Wireline Companies for such period, to the extent that such provision for taxes was deducted in computing such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income;
plus  
 (b) Interest Expense of the Wireline Companies for such period, to the extent that such Interest Expense was
deducted in computing such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income; plus  
 (c) depreciation, amortization (including
amortization of intangibles but excluding amortization of prepaid cash expenses that were paid in a prior period), goodwill impairment charges and other non-cash expenses (excluding any such non-cash expense to the extent that it represents an
accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period) of the Wireline Companies for such period to the extent that such depreciation, amortization and other non-cash
charges or expenses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income; plus  
 (d) the amount of any
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 (e) any non-cash compensation charge arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other
equity-based awards, to the extent deducted in computing such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income; plus  
 (f) any non-cash
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 income (or loss) related to hedging activities, to the extent deducted in computing such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income; minus 
 (g) non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period, other than (i) the accrual of revenue consistent
with past practice and (ii) the reversal in such period of an accrual of, or cash reserve for, cash expenses in a prior period, to the extent such accrual or reserve did not increase Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA in a prior period; 

in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. 
 Notwithstanding the preceding, the provision for taxes based on the income or profits of, the Interest Expense of, and the depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses of, a Subsidiary will
be added to Consolidated Adjusted Net Income to compute Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA (A) in the same proportion that the Net Income of such Subsidiary was added to compute such Consolidated Adjusted Net Income and (B) only to the extent
that a corresponding amount would be permitted, as of such determination date, to be dividended or distributed to the Borrower by such Subsidiary (x) without direct or indirect restriction pursuant to the terms of its charter and all agreements
and instruments applicable to such Subsidiary or its stockholders and (y) solely for purposes of any determination of Available Distributable Cash, without prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) (unless and to the extent that
such amount constitutes a Distribution Advance) and without direct or indirect restriction pursuant to the terms of any judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and/or governmental regulations applicable to such Subsidiary and/or its any of
stockholders. 
 “Consolidated Adjusted Net Income” means, for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of
the Wireline Companies for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that: 
 (a)
the Net Income of any Person that is not a Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting will be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid in cash to a Wireline Company during such period
(and the net loss of any such Person will be included only to the extent that such loss is funded in cash by a Wireline Company during such period); 
  

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 (b) the Net Income of any Subsidiary will be excluded to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary of such Net Income is not, as of such date of determination, permitted (x) directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement or instrument
applicable to such Subsidiary or its equityholders or (y) solely for purposes of any determination of Available Distributable Cash, without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by operation of
the terms of any judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to such Subsidiary or its equityholders, in each case except to the extent that such amount was advanced prior to such date in cash by such Subsidiary
(directly or indirectly) to the Borrower in accordance with Section 6.01(a)(v) (any such advance, except to the extent it has been repaid, prepaid, redeemed, acquired or otherwise returned (directly or indirectly) to such Subsidiary, a
“Distribution Advance”); 
 (c) the Net Income of any Person acquired during the specified period for any
period prior to the date of such acquisition will be excluded; and 
 (d) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting
principles will be excluded. 
 “Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” means, for any period, the excess of
(a) the sum of (i) Interest Expense of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) any cash payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary
during such period in respect of Interest Expense that were or will be amortized, accrued or otherwise recognized in a previous or future period, minus (b) the sum of (i) to the extent included in such consolidated Interest Expense
for such period, any non-cash amounts amortized, accrued or otherwise recognized in such period, and (ii) cash interest income actually received by the Borrower or any Subsidiary (determined on a consolidated basis) in such period. 

“Consolidated Debt” means, as of any date, the principal amount of Indebtedness of the Wireline Companies outstanding as
of such date, determined on a consolidated basis; provided that, for purposes of this definition, the term “Indebtedness” will not include (i) contingent obligations of any Wireline Company as an account party or applicant in
respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty, unless such letter of credit or letter of guaranty supports an obligation that constitutes Indebtedness of a Person other than a Wireline Company, (ii) any obligation constituting
Indebtedness pursuant to clause (j) of the definition thereof, (iii) any Earn-out Obligation or obligation in respect of purchase price adjustment permitted pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(xvi) and (iv) any bonds or similar
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 “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member
of the board of directors of the Borrower who: 
 (a) was a member of such board of directors on the Effective Date; or

 (b) was nominated for election or elected to such board of directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing
Directors who were members of such board of directors at the time of such nomination or election. 
 “Contributed
Subsidiaries” means the subsidiaries of Alltel that, after giving effect to the Preliminary Restructuring, own any assets, liabilities or operations of Alltel’s wireline telecommunications business. 
 “Contribution” means the contribution by Alltel to the Borrower, directly or indirectly, of all of the issued and
outstanding capital stock or other Equity Interests in the Contributed Subsidiaries in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Borrower, the 2016 Notes and the Special Dividend. 
 “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto. 
 “Conversion Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G. 
 “Debt Exchange” means the exchange for its outstanding debt securities or other transfer to its creditors of the 2016 Notes
by Alltel. 
 “Debt Issuance” means the issuance or other incurrence by any Wireline Company of any
Indebtedness for borrowed money. 
 “Debt Offering” means the private placement of the 2019 Notes. 

“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which, upon notice, lapse of time or
both, would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default under Article 7. 
 “Defaulting Lender” has the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(b). 
 “Designated Noncash Consideration” means the Fair
Market Value of noncash consideration received by the Wireline Companies in connection with an Asset Disposition that is so designated as Designated Noncash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Financial Officer, setting forth the basis of
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valuation, less the amount of Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Noncash Consideration. 
 “Directories Holdings” means Windstream Regatta Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 
 “Directories Debt Exchange” means the exchange, if any, by Borrower of the Directories Notes for Term Loans in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding $220,000,000 pursuant to an exchange agreement among the Borrower and the Lenders exchanging such Term Loans in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 
 “Directories Equity Exchange” means the exchange by the Borrower of all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of
Directories Holdings for all of the common stock of the Borrower held by affiliates of WCAS pursuant to the Directories Equity Exchange Agreement. 
 “Directories Equity Exchange Agreement” means the Share Exchange Agreement dated as of December 12, 2006 and amended as of February 12, 2007 among the Borrower and the
affiliates of WCAS named therein and any further amendments to such agreement, to the extent permitted by Section 6.11. 
 “Directories Notes” means unsecured senior subordinated notes or other debt obligations issued by Directories Holdings in an aggregate principal amount of approximately $220,000,000 and otherwise constituting Permitted
Additional Debt. 
 “Directories Transaction Documents” means the Directories Equity Exchange Agreement, each
exhibit to the Directories Equity Exchange Agreement as executed by the parties thereto, the Directories Notes and each other agreement, indenture or other instrument governing the Directories Notes, the Directories Debt Exchange (if any) and/or the
Directories Equity Exchange and any amendments to such agreements, to the extent permitted by Section 6.11. 
 “Directories Transactions” means the split-off of the Borrower’s directories publishing business to entities affiliated with WCAS pursuant to the Directories Equity Exchange and the Directories Debt Exchange and such
other transactions contemplated by the Directories Transaction Documents. 
 “Disclosed Matters” means the
actions, suits and proceedings and the environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06. 
 “Disqualified
Stock” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the

  

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happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or
prior to the date that is 123 days after the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date or, if such Equity Interests are issued after the Borrower has obtained any Incremental Loans constituting term loans or while any Commitments from Incremental Lenders to make
Incremental Loans constituting term loans remain in effect, 123 days after the maturity date for such Incremental Loans, unless all such Incremental Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in respect thereof have been terminated;
provided, however, that only the portion of such Equity Interests which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such dates shall be deemed to
be Disqualified Stock. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require a Wireline Company to repurchase such Equity Interests upon the
occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale will not constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of such Equity Interest provide that the Wireline Companies may not repurchase or redeem any such Equity Interest pursuant to such provisions
unless such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 6.08. The term “Disqualified Stock” will also include any options, warrants or other rights that are convertible into Disqualified Stock or that are redeemable at the option
of the holder, or required to be redeemed, prior to the date that is 123 days after the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date or, if such Equity Interests are issued after the Borrower has obtained any Incremental Loans constituting term loans or while any
Commitments from Incremental Lenders to make Incremental Loans constituting term loans remain in effect, 123 days after the maturity date for such Incremental Loans, unless all such Incremental Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in
respect thereof have been terminated. 
 “Distribution” means the distribution by Alltel to its shareholders of
all of the common stock of the Borrower. 
 “Distribution Advance” has the meaning set forth in clause
(b) of the definition of “Consolidated Adjusted Net Income”. 
 “Distribution Agreement” means
the Distribution Agreement dated as of December 8, 2005 between Alltel and the Borrower, as filed with the SEC as Annex B to the Registration Statement. 
 “Dividend Suspension Period” means any period (a) commencing on any day on which consolidated financial statements are delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) (or, if
applicable, the last day of the most recently completed Dividend Suspension Period) if the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the then most recently completed Fiscal Quarter covered thereby is greater than 4.50 to 1.0 and (b) ending on the
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consolidated financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) and a certificate pursuant to Section 5.01(c), all demonstrating that the Leverage Ratio was equal to or less
than 4.50 to 1.0 as of the last day of the then most recently completed Fiscal Quarter covered thereby. 
 “dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States. 
 “Domestic
Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary. 
 “Earn-out Obligation” means any
contingent consideration based on the future operating performance of an acquired entity or assets, or other purchase price adjustment or indemnification obligation, payable following the consummation of an acquisition (including pursuant to a
merger or consolidation) based on criteria set forth in the documentation governing or relating to such acquisition. 
 “Effective Date” means July 17, 2006. 
 “Engagement Letter” means the Amendment
Engagement Letter dated as of September 29, 2009 among the Borrower, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. 
 “Environmental Laws” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions,
notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, having the force or effect of law and relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release
or threatened release of, or exposure to, any pollutant, toxic, radioactive, ignitable, corrosive, reactive or otherwise hazardous substance, waste or material or to occupational health and safety matters. 
 “Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of
environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any Wireline Company directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling,
transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement
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 “Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests,
membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity
interest but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, any of the foregoing. 
 “Equity
Issuance” means any issuance by the Borrower of any of its Equity Interests to any Person (other than another Wireline Company) or receipt by any Wireline Company of a capital contribution from any Person (other than another Wireline
Company), including the issuance of Equity Interests pursuant to the exercise of options or warrants and the conversion of any Indebtedness to equity. 
 “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. 
 “ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the
Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code. 
 “ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event
for which the 30 day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived;
(c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA
Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate
any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or
(g) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a
Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA. 
  

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 “Eurodollar”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to
whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate. 
 “Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article 7. 
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules of the SEC thereunder. 
 “Exchanged Term Loan Mandatory Prepayments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.09(f). 
 “Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Bank, any Participant or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or with respect to any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (each, a
“Recipient”), (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by any jurisdiction, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in
which the Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Recipient (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b)), any withholding tax that (i) is imposed by a Governmental Authority in the
United States on amounts payable to such Foreign Recipient at the time such Foreign Recipient becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new Lending Affiliate or lending office) or, in the case of a Participant, at the time the Participant
purchases the relevant participation, except to the extent that such Foreign Recipient (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with
respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.16(a), or (ii) is attributable to such Foreign Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.16(e). 
 “Existing ARCA” means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 27, 2007 among Windstream
Corporation, the lenders party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, and Bank of America, N.A., Citibank, N.A., and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as co-documentation agents, as amended and as in
effect from time to time before the Second ARCA Effective Date. 
 “Existing Letters of Credit” means the
letters of credit previously issued pursuant to the Valor 2005 Credit Facility which were (i) outstanding on the Effective Date and (ii) listed on Schedule 1.01-B. 
 “Extension Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit F. 
  

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 “Extension Request” means a request by the Borrower pursuant to
Section 2.07(d) to extend the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to 2011 Revolving Loans to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2013 Revolving Loans. 
 “Facilities” means the credit facilities provided to the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents. 
 “Facility Guarantee” has the meaning specified in Section 1(b) of the Guarantee Agreement. 
 “Facility Obligations” means (i) all principal of all Loans and LC Reimbursement Obligations outstanding from time to time under this Agreement, all interest (including Post-Petition
Interest) on such Loans and LC Reimbursement Obligations and all other amounts now or hereafter payable by the Borrower to the Lenders pursuant to the Loan Documents, (ii) all obligations of the Borrower under the Cash Management Agreements and
Swap Agreements listed on Schedule 1.01-A and all interest (including Post-Petition Interest) thereon and (iii) all obligations (if any) designated by the Borrower as additional Facility Obligations pursuant to Section 20 of the Security
Agreement. 
 “Fair Market Value” means a price that would be paid in an arm’s-length transaction between
an informed and willing seller under no compulsion to sell and an informed and willing buyer under no compulsion to buy, as determined in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, whose determination, unless otherwise specified below, will
be conclusive if evidenced by an officer’s certificate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Financial Officer’s determination of Fair Market Value must be evidenced by a certificate of a Financial Officer delivered to the Administrative Agent
if the Fair Market Value exceeds $25,000,000. 
 “FCC” means the Federal Communications Commission or any
successor Governmental Authority exercising similar functions. 
 “Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any
day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding
Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions
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 “Fee Letters” means (a) the Fee Letter dated as of December 8,
2005 among Alltel, the Lead Arrangers and JPMCB and MLCC and (b) the Fee Letter dated as of July 17, 2006 between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. 
 “Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower. 
 “Fiscal Quarter” means a fiscal quarter of the Borrower. 
 “Fiscal Year” means a fiscal year of the Borrower. 
 “Foreign Recipient” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(e). 
 “Foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary (which may be a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other legal
entity) organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States, other than any such entity that is (whether as a matter of law, pursuant to an election by such entity or otherwise) treated as a partnership in which any Loan Party is a
partner or as a branch of any Loan Party for United States income tax purposes. 
 “GAAP” means generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States. 
 “Governmental Authority” means the government of the
United States, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body (including the FCC and any PUC, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government). 
 “Governmental Authorization” means any authorization, approval, consent, franchise, license, covenant, order, ruling, permit, certification, exemption, notice, declaration or similar right, undertaking or other action of,
to or by, or any filing, qualification or registration with any Governmental Authority. 
 “Guarantee” of or by
any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in
any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or to purchase (or to advance or
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purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the
primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness; provided that the term Guarantee shall
not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business; and provided, further, that the amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be the lower of (i) an amount equal to the stated or determinable
amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee is made and (ii) the maximum amount for which such guarantor may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee or, if such Guarantee is not an
unconditional guarantee of the entire amount of the primary obligation and such maximum amount is not stated or determinable, the amount of such guarantor’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by such
Person in good faith. 
 “Guarantee Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement between the Subsidiaries party
thereto and the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C. 
 “Guarantors” means each Person
listed on the signature pages of the Guarantee Agreement under the caption “Guarantors” and each Subsidiary that shall, at any time after the date hereof, become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 5.10, until such time as released from
their obligations under the Guarantee Agreement. 
 “Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive
substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and
all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law because of their harmful, dangerous or deleterious properties or characteristics. 
 “Incremental Facility Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(g)(iii). 
 “Incremental Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(g)(iii). 
 “Incremental Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(g)(i). 
 “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments,
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of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding accrued obligations or trade payables, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business), (e) all Indebtedness of
others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing unconditional right to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed,
(f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations and Attributable Debt of such Person, (h) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of
letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (j) all net obligations of such Person under any Swap Agreements, and (k) all obligations
of such Person to redeem, repay or otherwise repurchase any Disqualified Stock, valued at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary maximum fixed repurchase price plus accrued dividends. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the
Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity,
except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person pursuant to clause (e) of this definition shall (unless such Indebtedness has been assumed by such
Person) be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (A) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (B) the Fair Market Value of the property encumbered thereby at the date of determination of the amount of such Indebtedness. The
amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be the outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional obligations as described above and, with respect to contingent obligations, the maximum liability upon the occurrence of the
contingency giving rise to the obligation, and will be: (1) the accreted value thereof, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount; and (2) the principal amount thereof, together with any interest thereon that is
more than 30 days past due, in the case of any other Indebtedness. 
 “Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes imposed
by any Governmental Authority of or in the United States or any other jurisdiction from which or through which payments are made under the Loan Documents, other than Excluded Taxes. 
 “Information Memorandum” means, collectively, the Confidential Information Memorandum dated June 2006 relating to the
Wireline Companies and the Transactions. and the Confidential Executive Summary for Public Investors dated February 2007 relating to the Borrower and the Directories Transactions. 
 “Insignificant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that has total assets of not more than $5,000,000 and that
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Borrower as an “Insignificant Subsidiary,” provided that the total assets of all Subsidiaries that are so designated, as reflected on the Borrower’s most recent
consolidating balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, may not in the aggregate at any time exceed $25,000,000. 
 “Interest Coverage Ratio” means, on any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to (b) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters ended on
such day (or, in the case of any calculation to be made on Pro Forma Basis, if such day is not the last day of a Fiscal Quarter, ended on the last day of the Fiscal Quarter most recently ended before such day). 
 “Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with
Section 2.06. 
 “Interest Expense” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum,
without duplication, of: 
 (a) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its subsidiaries for such period, whether
paid or accrued, including, without limitation, original issue discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of
all payments associated with Capital Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings, and net of
the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to Swap Agreements, but excluding the amortization or write-off of debt issuance costs; plus  
 (b) the consolidated interest of such Person and its subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; plus  
 (c) any interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is Guaranteed by such Person or one of its subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its subsidiaries, whether or
not such Guarantee or Lien is called upon; plus  
 (d) all dividends, whether paid or accrued and whether or not in
cash, on any series of Disqualified Stock of such Person, other than dividends on Equity Interests payable solely in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of such Person or to such Person or to a subsidiary of such Person, in each case
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 “Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, the
last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an
Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period. 
 “Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and
ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter (or nine or twelve months thereafter if, at the time of the relevant borrowing or conversion or continuation thereof, all Lenders
participating therein agree to make an interest period of such duration available), as the Borrower may elect; provided, that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended
to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing only, such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day,
(ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall
end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period and (iii) the initial Interest Period with respect to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans made on the Amendment Effective Date shall end on such date as agreed between the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such
Borrowing. 
 “Investment” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04. 
 “Issuing Bank” means, as the context may require, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., or, at any time and from time to time, up to
three other Revolving Lenders that are designated in writing by the Borrower, are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and that agree to issue one or more Letters of Credit hereunder and to report in writing to the Administrative Agent
all activity with respect to such Letters of Credit in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in each case in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in
Section 2.04(i); provided that with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit, the Revolving Lender which issued the same shall be an Issuing Bank with respect thereto. Any Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more
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include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. 
 “JPMCB” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 
 “Knowledge” means the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer. 
 “LC Disbursement”
means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit. 
 “LC Exposure” means, at any time,
the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Reimbursement Obligations at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its
Revolving Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time. 
 “LC Reimbursement Obligations” means, at any
time, all obligations of the Borrower to reimburse the Issuing Bank for amounts paid by it in respect of drawings under Letters of Credit, including any portion of such obligations to which Lenders have become subrogated by making payments to the
Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.04(e). 
 “Lead Arranger” means (i) prior to the Second ARCA
Effective Date, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., in its capacity as sole lead arranger and bookrunner and (ii) on and after the Second ARCA Effective Date, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC, each in its capacity as
joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner. 
 “Lender Parties” means the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the
Agents. 
 “Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a
party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption and the terms and provisions in Section 9.04, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption and the terms and provisions in
Section 9.04. 
 “Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement
(including each Existing Letter of Credit). 
 “Leverage Ratio” means, on any date of determination, the ratio
of (a) Consolidated Debt as of such day to (b) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters ended on such day (or, in the case of any calculation to be made on a Pro Forma Basis, if such day is not the
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 “LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any
Interest Period, the rate per annum equal to the British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate (“BBA LIBOR”) from Telerate Successor Page 3750, as published by Reuters (or other commercially available source providing quotations of BBA
LIBOR as designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such
Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of
$5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two
Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period. 
 “Lien” means, with respect to any asset,
(a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention
agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such
securities. 
 “Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Engagement Letter, any Incremental Facility Amendment
and the Security Documents. 
 “Loan Parties” means the Borrower and the Guarantors. 
 “Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement. 
 “Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, properties or liabilities or
financial condition of the Wireline Companies taken as a whole, (b) the ability of any Loan Party to perform any of its payment obligations under any Loan Document or (c) the rights of or remedies available to any Lender Party under any
Loan Document. 
 “Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit) of
any one or more of the Wireline Companies in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $75,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of any Wireline Company in respect of any Swap
Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that such Wireline Company would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time. 
  

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 “Merged Person” has the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 6.01(a)(ix). 
 “Merger” means the merger on the Effective Date of ALLTEL Holding Corp., a
Delaware corporation, with and into Valor, with Valor as the surviving entity, followed immediately by the merger of the Windstream Corporation, a Delaware corporation, with and into Valor, with Valor as the surviving entity (and subsequently
renamed “Windstream Corporation”). 
 “Merger Agreement” means the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated
as of December 8, 2005 among Alltel, the Borrower and Valor, as filed with the SEC as Annex A to the Registration Statement, as amended on May 18, 2006. 
 “MLCC” means Merrill Lynch Capital Corporation. 
 “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. 
 “Multiemployer Plan”
means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA. 
 “Net Income” means, with respect
to any specified Person, the net income (loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends, excluding, however: 
 (a) any gain or loss, together with any related provision for taxes on such gain or loss, realized in connection with: (i) any sale of
assets outside the ordinary course of business of such Person or any of its subsidiaries; or (ii) the disposition of any securities by such Person or any of its subsidiaries or the extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its
subsidiaries; and 
 (b) any extraordinary or non-recurring gain, loss, expense or charge (including any one-time expenses
related to the Transactions), together with any related provision for taxes; provided that non-recurring cash charges other than related to the Transactions shall not exceed $25,000,000 in any period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters.

 “Net Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds (including (x) payments in respect of deferred payment
obligations (to the extent corresponding to the principal, but not the interest component, thereof) and (y) any cash received upon the sale or other disposition of any non-cash consideration received in any Asset Disposition or Casualty Event)
received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Disposition or Casualty Event, net of (1) the direct costs relating to such Asset Disposition or Casualty Event and the sale or other disposition of any such non-cash
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paid or payable as a result thereof, in each case, after taking into account any available Tax credits or deductions and any Tax sharing arrangements, (3) amounts required to be applied to
the repayment of Indebtedness or other liabilities secured by a Lien on the asset or assets that were the subject of such Asset Disposition or Casualty Event or required to be paid as a result of such Asset Disposition or Casualty Event,
(4) any reserve for adjustment in respect of the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP, (5) in the case of any Asset Disposition by a Subsidiary of the Borrower, payments to holders of Equity Interests in
such Subsidiary in such capacity (other than such Equity Interests held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary) to the extent that such payment is required to permit the distribution of such proceeds in respect of the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary
held by the Borrower or such Subsidiary and (6) appropriate amounts to be provided by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries as a reserve against liabilities associated with such Asset Disposition or Casualty Event, including, without limitation,
pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Disposition or Casualty Event, all as determined in accordance with
GAAP; provided that (a) any excess amounts set aside for payment of Taxes pursuant to clause (2) above that are remaining after such Taxes have been paid in full or the statute of limitations therefor has expired and (b) any
amounts held in reserve pursuant to clause (6), will, in each case when no longer so held, become Net Proceeds. 
 “New
Notes” means the 2016 Notes and the 2013 Notes. 
 “New Notes Documents” means the indenture under
which the New Notes are issued and all other instruments, agreements and other documents evidencing or governing the New Notes or providing for any Guarantee or other right in respect thereof. 
 “Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(c). 
 “Non-Extending 2011 Revolving Lender” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2.07(d). 
 “Optional Prepayment Premium” means 1%. 
 “Original Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of July 17, 2006 among Alltel Holding Corp., the lenders party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative
agent and collateral agent, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as syndication agent, and Bank of America, N.A., Citibank, N.A., and Wachovia Bank, National Association, as co-documentation agents, as in effect from time to
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 “Other Taxes” means any and all present or future recording, stamp or
documentary taxes or any other excise, transfer, sales or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of this Agreement. 
 “Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement” means the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E
among the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and one or more Senior Representatives for holders of Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness, with such modifications thereto as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree. 
 “Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04. 
 “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing
similar functions. 
 “Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit E to the Security
Agreement or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent and the Borrower. 
 “Permitted Acquisition” means
any Acquisition by a Collateral Support Party; provided that: 
 (a) the property acquired (or the property of the Person
acquired) in such Acquisition shall be used or useful in a Permitted Business; 
 (b) the Borrower shall be in compliance with
Sections 6.14 and 6.15, determined on a Pro Forma Basis; 
 (d) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result
from such Acquisition; and 
 (e) if the aggregate consideration paid by the Wireline Companies for any Acquisition (including
the principal amount of Indebtedness assumed by the Wireline Companies in connection therewith) exceeds $100,000,000, the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from a Financial Officer describing such Acquisition and certifying as
to the foregoing matters and demonstrating such compliance in reasonable detail. 
 “Permitted Additional Debt”
means unsecured Indebtedness of any Loan Party that (a) does not require any scheduled payment of principal (including pursuant to a sinking fund obligation) or mandatory redemption or redemption at the option of the holders thereof (except for
redemptions in respect of asset sales and changes in control on terms that are market terms on the date of issuance) prior to the date that is 123 days after the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date or, if such Indebtedness is incurred after the Borrower has
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constituting term loans or while any Commitments from Incremental Lenders to make Incremental Loans constituting term loans remain in effect, 123 days after the maturity date for such Incremental
Loans, unless all such Incremental Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in respect thereof have been terminated, (b) contains other terms (including covenants, events of default, remedies, redemption provisions and change of
control provisions) that are market terms on the date of issuance as determined by a Financial Officer in good faith, provided that such covenants and events of default are not materially more restrictive than the covenants and events of
default contained in this Agreement as determined by a Financial Officer in good faith and do not require the maintenance or achievement of any financial performance standards other than as a condition to the taking of specified actions, and
(c) bears interest at a market rate of interest on the date of issuance of such Indebtedness as determined by a Financial Officer in good faith. 
 “Permitted Asset Exchange” means a disposition of assets and property of any of the Wireline Companies in consideration for the Acquisition of assets and property of a Person engaged in
the Permitted Business (other than an Affiliate of any Wireline Company); provided that: 
 (a) the aggregate assets and
properties of the Wireline Companies which may be disposed of in all Permitted Asset Exchanges shall not relate to more than 35% of the access lines of the Wireline Companies determined at the time of any disposition; 
 (b) the assets and properties disposed of in any Permitted Asset Exchange, together with any cash consideration paid by the Wireline
Companies, shall have a Fair Market Value substantially equivalent to the Fair Market Value of the assets and properties Acquired by the Wireline Companies in such Permitted Asset Exchange, together with any cash consideration received by the
Wireline Companies; 
 (c) the Borrower shall comply with Section 2.10(c) with respect to any Net Proceeds received by the
Wireline Companies in respect of any Permitted Asset Exchange; 
 (d) any cash consideration paid by the Wireline Companies in
respect of any Permitted Asset Exchange (but not any other property or assets disposed of in any such transaction) shall be treated hereunder as consideration paid by the Wireline Companies for a Permitted Acquisition for purposes of determining
whether a certificate is required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to clause (e) of the definition of such term; and 
 (e) if the Net Proceeds thereof exceed $100,000,000, (i) the Borrower shall be in compliance with Sections 6.14 and 6.15, determined on a Pro Forma

  

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Basis; and (ii) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom. 
 “Permitted Business” means any business conducted or proposed to be conducted (as described in the Information Memorandum) by the Wireline Companies on the Effective Date and other
businesses reasonably related thereto, including any reasonable extension or expansion thereof. 
 “Permitted
Encumbrances” means: 
 (a) Liens for Taxes, assessments and governmental charges not yet delinquent or which are being
contested in compliance with Section 5.05; 
 (b) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in
connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security obligations; 
 (c) Liens, deposits
or pledges to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade contracts, leases, or other similar obligations, in each case in the ordinary course of business; 
 (d) Liens, deposits or pledges to secure public or statutory obligations, surety, stay, appeal, indemnity, performance or other similar bonds or obligations; and deposits or pledges in lieu of such bonds
or obligations, or to secure such bonds or obligations, or to secure letters of credit in lieu of or supporting the payment of such bonds or obligations; 
 (e) judgment and attachment liens that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (l) of Article 7 and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to litigation being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which reserves have been made in accordance with GAAP; 
 (f) survey
exceptions, encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights of other for, rights of way, zoning or other restrictions as to the use of properties, and defects in title which, in the case of any of the foregoing, were not incurred or created to
secure the payment of Indebtedness, and which in the aggregate do not materially adversely affect the value of such properties or materially impair the use for the purposes of which such properties are held by any Wireline Company; 
 (g) Liens in favor of collecting or payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or chargeback with respect to money or
instruments of the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof on deposit with or in possession of such bank; 
 (h) Liens representing
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property subject to any lease, license or sublicense permitted by this Agreement (other than any property that is the subject of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction); and 
 (i) Liens arising from precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing statements regarding operating leases; 
 provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness. 
 “Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness” means secured Indebtedness in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes
issued by the Borrower or any Guarantor; provided that, in each case: 
 (a) at the time of the incurrence of any such
Indebtedness, (i) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall result therefrom, (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with the covenants contained in Sections 6.14 and 6.15 recomputed as of
the last day of the most-recently ended Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), and (iii) the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect
set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with clause (ii) above; 
 (b) such Indebtedness contains terms (including covenants, events of default, remedies, redemption provisions and change of control provisions) that are market terms on the date of issuance as determined
by a Financial Officer in good faith, provided that such covenants and events of default are not materially more restrictive than the covenants and events of default contained in this Agreement as determined by a Financial Officer in good
faith and do not require the maintenance or achievement of any financial performance standards other than as a condition to the taking of specified actions; 
 (c) such Indebtedness does not require any scheduled payment of principal (including pursuant to a sinking fund obligation) or mandatory redemption or redemption at the option of the holders thereof
(except for redemptions in respect of asset sales and changes in control on terms that are market terms on the date of issuance) prior to the date that is 123 days after the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date or, if such Indebtedness is incurred after the
Borrower has obtained any Incremental Loans constituting term loans or while any Commitments from Incremental Lenders to make Incremental Loans constituting term loans remain in effect, 123 days after the maturity date for such Incremental Loans,
unless all such Incremental Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in respect thereof have been terminated; 
  

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 (d) the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same as the
Security Agreement (with such differences as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent); 
 (e) such Indebtedness
is not guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than the Guarantors and is not secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary other than the Collateral; and 
 (f) a Senior Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the Pari Passu Intercreditor
Agreement, provided that if such Indebtedness is the initial Permitted Paris Passu Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any Guarantor, then the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Senior
Representative for such Indebtedness shall have executed and delivered the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement. 
 “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries incurred in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund
other Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary or of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary); provided that: 
 (a) the amount of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the amount of the Indebtedness so extended, refinanced, renewed,
replaced, defeased or refunded (plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon and the amount of any reasonably determined premium necessary to accomplish such refinancing and such reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith); 
 (b) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life
to Maturity equal to or greater than the then Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; 
 (c) if the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded is subordinated in right of payment to the Secured Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a
final maturity date later than 123 days after the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date or, if such Equity Interests are issued after the Borrower has obtained any Incremental Loans constituting term loans or while any Commitments from Incremental Lenders to
make Incremental Loans constituting term loans remain in effect, 123 days after the maturity date for such Incremental Loans, unless all such Incremental Loans have been repaid in full and all Commitments in respect thereof have been terminated and
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favorable, taken as a whole, to the Secured Parties as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded;

 (d) if the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded is unsecured, such Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness is unsecured; 
 (e) if the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or
refunded is Indebtedness under the Loan Documents, the Assumed Valor Bonds or the AC Holdings Bonds, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is unsecured; and 
 (f) such Indebtedness is incurred by either (i) by the Borrower or any Loan Party or (ii) by the Subsidiary that is the obligor on the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced,
defeased or refunded. 
 “Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust,
joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity. 
 “Plan” means any
employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is an
“employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA. 
 “Post-Petition Interest” has the meaning
specified in Section 1(c) of the Security Agreement. 
 “Preferred Stock” means, with respect to any
Person, any Equity Interests in such Person that have preferential rights to any other Equity Interests in such Person with respect to dividends or redemptions upon liquidation. 
 “Preliminary Restructuring” means the contribution by Alltel of all of the assets, liabilities and operations of its
wireline telecommunications business to its subsidiaries. 
 “Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum
publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as
being effective. 
 “Pro Forma Basis” means, with respect to the preparation of the Pro Forma Financial
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effect to all Permitted Acquisitions, all Permitted Asset Exchanges, all issuances, incurrences or assumptions or repayments of Indebtedness (and the application of proceeds thereof) and all
sales, transfers or other dispositions of any Subsidiary, line of business or division (any of the foregoing, an “Applicable Transaction”) and to the Transactions (with any such Indebtedness being deemed to be amortized over the
applicable measurement period in accordance with its terms and, if any such Indebtedness bears interest at a floating rate, assuming that such Indebtedness bears interest during any portion of such measurement period prior to the consummation of the
Applicable Transaction or the Transactions at the interest rate applicable to such Indebtedness at such time), in each case that have occurred during (or, if such calculation is being made for the purpose of determining whether any proposed
transaction will constitute a Permitted Acquisition or Permitted Asset Exchange or an incurrence of Indebtedness pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(viii), Section 6.01(a)(ix) or Section 6.01(a)(xx), Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness,
Permitted Additional Debt or Incremental Loans, since the beginning of) the four consecutive Fiscal Quarter period of the Borrower most recently ended on or prior to such date as if they had occurred on the first day of such four consecutive Fiscal
Quarter period (including cost savings (i) to the extent such cost savings would be permitted to be reflected in pro forma financial information complying with the requirements of GAAP and Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act,
as interpreted by the Staff of the SEC, and as certified by a Financial Officer and (ii) which, in the case of the Transactions, may include additional cost savings which have otherwise been realized or for which steps necessary for realization
have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken following the Transactions as determined in good faith by a Financial Officer, provided that the net cost savings in connection with the Transactions pursuant to clauses (i) and
(ii) above that may be given such effect shall not exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate for purposes of any calculation during the first of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters after the Effective Date (or, in any case thereafter, such amount less
$12,500,000 for each additional full Fiscal Quarter thereafter). 
 “Pro Forma Financial Statements” has the
meaning set forth in Section 3.04(b). 
 “Proposed Change” has the meaning set forth in
Section 9.02(c). 
 “PUC” means any state public service or public utility commission or other state
Governmental Authority that exercises jurisdiction over the rates or services or the acquisition, construction or operation of any telecommunications system of any Person who owns, constructs or operates any telecommunications system, in each case
by reason of the nature or type of the business subject to regulation and not pursuant to laws and regulations of general applicability to Persons conducting business in such state. 
  

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 “Refinancings” means the repayment of all principal of, all accrued
interest on, and all premiums, fees and other amounts owing in respect of (a) the 9.44% Sinking Fund Debentures due 2009, the 9.55% Sinking Fund Debentures due 2009 and the 9.14% Sinking Fund Debentures due 2011, in each case issued by Alltel
New York, Inc. (formerly Midstate Telephone Corporation), (b) the 8.05% Senior Notes (Series A) due 2009 and the 8.17% Senior Notes (Series B) due 2014, in each case issued by Georgia Alltel Telecom, Inc., (c) the 9.07% Sinking Fund
Debentures due 2011 issued by Alltel Pennsylvania, Inc. (formerly Mid-Penn Telephone Corporation), (d) the 8.11% Senior Notes due 2018 issued by Texas Alltel, Inc., (e) the 8.05% Senior Notes (Series A) due 2009 and the 8.17% Senior Notes
(Series B) due 2014, in each case issued by The Western Reserve Telephone Company, (f) the Valor 2005 Credit Facility and (g) the termination and release of all Guarantees of and all Liens securing any of the foregoing. 
 “Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(b). 
 “Registration Statement” means Valor’s Registration Statement on Form S-4, as filed with the SEC on February 28,
2006, as amended to the Effective Date. 
 “Regulatory Authorization” means any Governmental Authorization of
the FCC or any PUC. 
 “Reinvestment Funds” means any Net Proceeds of an asset disposition of, or casualty
event with respect to, non-current assets that are not otherwise required to be applied to prepay Loans pursuant to Section 2.10(c) or (d). 
 “Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such
Person and such Person’s Affiliates. 
 “Replacement Assets” means (a) non-current assets (including
any such assets acquired by capital expenditures) that will be used or useful in a Permitted Business or (b) substantially all the assets of a Permitted Business or the voting stock of any Person engaged in a Permitted Business that will become
on the date of Acquisition thereof a Collateral Support Party. 
 “Required Lenders” means, at any time,
Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) having Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments at
such time (excluding any Revolving Credit Exposures, outstanding Term Loans and unused Commitments of Defaulting Lenders). 
  

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 “Required Revolving Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders (other than
Defaulting Lenders) having Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments at such time (excluding any Revolving Credit
Exposures and unused Revolving Commitments of Defaulting Lenders). 
 “Requirement of Law” means, with respect
to any Person, (a) the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person and (b) any statute, law, treaty, rule, regulation, order, decree, writ,
injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject. 
 “Response Deadline” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2.07(d). 
 “Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer or any vice president of the
Borrower or any other Financial Officer. 
 “Restricted Indebtedness” means the New Notes, the Assumed Bonds,
any Permitted Additional Debt and any Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness. 
 “Restricted Payment” means any
dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in any Wireline Company, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar
deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests in any Wireline Company, or any other payment (including, without limitation, any payment under a Swap Agreement) that
has a substantially similar effect to any of the foregoing. 
 “Revolving Availability Period” means the period
from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments. 
 “Revolving Commitment” means each 2011 Revolving Commitment with respect to 2011 Revolving Lenders and each 2013 Revolving Commitment with respect to 2013 Revolving Lenders. 

“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any 2011 Revolving Lender, the 2011 Revolving Credit Exposure, and
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 “Revolving Lender” means any 2011 Revolving Lender or 2013 Revolving
Lender. 
 “Revolving Loan” means any 2011 Revolving Loan or 2013 Revolving Loan. 
 “Revolving Maturity Date” means July 17, 2011 with respect to a 2011 Revolving Loan, as such date may be extended in
accordance with Section 2.07(d), and July 17, 2013 with respect to a 2013 Revolving Loan. 
 “Revolving
Percentage” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender, the percentage of the total Revolving Commitments represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitments. If the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, the Revolving
Percentages shall be determined based upon the Revolving Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments that occur after such termination or expiration. 
 “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, Inc. 
 “Sale and Leaseback Transaction” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.06. 
 “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal
functions. 
 “Second ARCA Effective Date” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Amendment and
Restatement Agreement. 
 “Secured Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 1(c) of the Security
Agreement. 
 “Secured Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 1(c) of the Security Agreement.

 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 
 “Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement among the Loan Parties and the Collateral Agent, substantially in the
form of Exhibit D. 
 “Security Documents” means the Guarantee Agreement, the Security Agreement, the Pari
Passu Intercreditor Agreement (if any) and each other agreement, instrument or other document executed and delivered pursuant to Section 5.10 or 5.11 to guarantee or secure any of the Secured Obligations. 
 “Senior Representative” means, with respect to any series of Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness, the trustee, administrative
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security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in
such capacities. 
 “Special Dividend” means a cash dividend paid by the Borrower to Alltel in an amount not
exceeding $2,275,000,000. 
 “Special Stub Dividend” shall mean dividends declared by Valor prior to the
Effective Date and paid by the Borrower thereafter in an aggregate amount not exceeding $6,000,000. 
 “SPV”
has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(e). 
 “Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a
decimal carried to the sixth decimal place), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve, liquid asset or similar requirement percentages (including any marginal,
special, emergency or supplemental reserves or other requirements) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities”
in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of
or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of
any change in any reserve, liquid asset or similar requirement. 
 “Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date” means
each date following the Second ARCA Effective Date on which the conversion of any Tranche A Term Loans to Tranche A-2 Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.01(h) shall become effective. 
 “subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with
GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary
voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held. 
  

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 “Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower. For purposes of the
representations and warranties made herein on the Effective Date, the term “Subsidiary” includes the Contributed Subsidiaries and each of Valor and its subsidiaries. 
 “Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or
similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or
any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of
the Borrower or the Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement. 
 “Taxes” means any and all present or future
taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority. 
 “Term
Lender” means a Tranche A Lender, Tranche A-2 Lender, Tranche B-1 Lender or Tranche B-2 Lender. 
 “Term
Loans” means a Tranche A Term Loan, Tranche A-2 Term Loan, Tranche B-1 Term Loan or Tranche B-2 Term Loan, or any combination thereof (as the context may require). 
 “Total Assets” means the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as shown on the most
recent balance sheet of the Borrower prepared in conformity with GAAP but excluding the value of any outstanding Investments made pursuant to Section 6.04(t). 
 “Tranche A-2 Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to convert all or a portion of its existing Tranche A Term Loan into a Tranche A-2 Term
Loan hereunder on the Second ARCA Effective Date pursuant to the Amendment and Restatement Agreement. The initial amount of each Lender’s Tranche A-2 Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Tranche A-2
Commitments.” The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Tranche A-2 Commitments is $168,869,309.00. 
 “Tranche A-2 Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Tranche A-2 Term Loan. 
 “Tranche A-2
Maturity Date” means July 17, 2013. 
 “Tranche A-2 Term Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to
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 “Tranche A Commitment” has the meaning assigned thereto in the Original
Credit Agreement. 
 “Tranche A Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Tranche A Term Loan. 
 “Tranche A Maturity Date” means July 17, 2011. 
 “Tranche A Term Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(i) of the Original Credit Agreement. 

“Tranche B-1 Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make a Tranche
B-1 Term Loan on the Amendment Effective Date, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Tranche B-1 Term Loan. The initial amount of each Lender’s Tranche B-1 Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 to the
Existing ARCA. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Tranche B-1 Commitments is $1,400,000,000. 
 “Tranche
B-1 Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Tranche B-1 Term Loan. 
 “Tranche B-1 Maturity Date”
means July 17, 2013. 
 “Tranche B -1 Term Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of the
Existing ARCA. 
 “Tranche B-2 Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such
Lender to convert all or a portion of its existing Tranche B-1 Term Loan into a Tranche B-2 Term Loan hereunder on the Second ARCA Effective Date pursuant to the Amendment and Restatement Agreement. The initial amount of each Lender’s Tranche
B-2 Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Tranche B-2 Commitments.” The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Tranche B-2 Commitments is $1,077,972,041.46. 
 “Tranche B-2 Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Tranche B-2 Term Loan. 
 “Tranche B-2 Maturity Date” means December 17, 2015. 
 “Tranche B-2 Term Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(e). 
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 “Transactions” means (a) the Preliminary Restructuring, (b) the
Contribution (including the payment of the Special Dividend and the issuance of the 2016 Notes), (c) the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents and the funding of the Loans, the use of proceeds thereof and
the issuance of Letters of Credit thereunder, (d) the issuance and sale of the 2013 Notes, (e) the Distribution, (f) the Merger, (g) the Refinancings, (h) the Debt Exchange and the resale of the 2016 Notes, and (i) the
payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing. 
 “Transaction Documents”
means (a) the Merger Agreement, the Distribution Agreement, and the other “Transaction Agreements” referred to in the Merger Agreement and the Distribution Agreement, (b) the New Notes Documents, (c) the Loan Documents, and
(d) the indentures and agreements under which any of the Assumed Bonds were issued and all other instruments, agreements and other documents evidencing or governing any of the Assumed Bonds or providing for any Guarantee or other right in
respect thereof. 
 “Transaction Liens” means the Liens on Collateral granted by the Loan Parties under the
Security Documents. 
 “Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of
interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate. 
 “United States” means the United States of America. 
 “Valor” means Valor Communications Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation. 
 “Valor 2005 Credit
Facility” means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of February 14, 2005 among Valor Telecommunications Enterprises, LLC, as borrower, Valor and certain of its domestic subsidiaries, as guarantors, the lenders party
thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (formerly known as JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association), and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as
Syndication Agents, CIBC World Markets Corp. and Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Documentation Agents, Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as Sole and Exclusive Lead Arrangers, and Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P. Morgan
Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as Sole and Exclusive Book Managers, as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of August 9, 2005 and as further amended prior to the Effective Date. 

 

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 “Valor Bonds” means the 7-3/4% Senior Notes due 2015 issued by Valor
Telecommunications Enterprises, LLC and Valor Telecommunications Enterprises Finance Corp. in an original aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000. 
 “Valor Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of February 14, 2005 under which the Valor Bonds were issued. 
 “Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Equity Interests in such Person that are ordinarily entitled to vote
in the election of the board of directors of such Person. 
 “WCAS” means Welsh, Carson, Anderson &
Stowe. 
 “Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number
of years obtained by dividing: 
 (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining
installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date
and the making of such payment; by 
 (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness. 
 “wholly-owned” means, with respect to any subsidiary of any Person (the “parent”) at any date, that
securities or other ownership interests representing 100% of the Equity Interests in such subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares) are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by the parent or one or more wholly-owned
subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more wholly-owned subsidiaries of the parent. 
 “Wireline
Companies” means the Borrower and the Subsidiaries. 
 “Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a
Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. 
 Section 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by
Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving
Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing”). 
  

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 Section 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply
equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the
context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the
words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all
references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall
be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights and whether real, personal or mixed and (f) any reference to
any Requirement of Law shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such Requirement of Law as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. 
 Section 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect
from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision (including any definition) hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date
hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any
such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such
notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Upon any such request for an amendment, the Borrower, the Required Lenders and the Administrative Agent agree to consider in good faith any such amendment in order to
amend the provisions of this Agreement so as to reflect equitably such accounting changes so that the criteria for evaluating Borrower’s financial condition shall be the same after such accounting changes as if such accounting changes had not
occurred. 
 Section 1.05. Pro Forma Calculations. With respect to any period (i) during which any Permitted
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transfer or other disposition of any Subsidiary, line of business or division occurs or (ii) as to which fewer than four full Fiscal Quarters have elapsed since the Effective Date,
calculations of the Leverage Ratio and the Interest Coverage Ratio with respect to such period shall be made on a Pro Forma Basis. 
 ARTICLE 2 
 THE CREDITS 
 Section 2.01. Loans. (a) Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Lender
agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period applicable to such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Lender’s
Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment. All Revolving Loans will be made by all Revolving Lenders (including both 2011 Revolving Lenders and 2013 Revolving Lenders) in accordance with their Revolving
Percentages until the Revolving Maturity Date with respect to the 2011 Revolving Commitments; thereafter all Revolving Loans will be made by the 2013 Revolving Lenders in accordance with their Revolving Percentages until the Revolving Maturity Date
with respect to the 2013 Revolving Commitments. 
 (b) Tranche A Term Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein and in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, each Tranche A Term Loan outstanding to the Borrower on the Second ARCA Effective Date that is not converted into a Tranche A-2 Term Loan will remain outstanding as a Tranche A Term Loan.

 (c) Tranche A-2 Term Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Amendment and Restatement
Agreement, each Tranche A-2 Lender has severally agreed to convert all or a portion of its existing Tranche A Term Loans into, and the Indebtedness converted by such converted Tranche A Term Loan will remain outstanding as, a Tranche A-2 Term Loan
on the Second ARCA Effective Date in a principal amount equal to such Tranche A-2 Lender’s Tranche A-2 Commitment. 
 (d)
Tranche B-1 Term Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, each Tranche B-1 Term Loan outstanding to the Borrower on the Second ARCA Effective Date that is not converted into a
Tranche B-2 Term Loan will remain outstanding as a Tranche B-1 Term Loan. 
 (e) Tranche B-2 Term Loans. Subject to the
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Tranche B-1 Term Loans into, and the Indebtedness converted by such converted Tranche B-1 Term Loan will remain outstanding as, a Tranche B-2 Term Loan on the Second ARCA Effective Date in a
principal amount equal to such Tranche B-2 Lender’s Tranche B-2 Commitment. 
 (f) Outstanding Revolving Loans and
Letters of Credit. All Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding under the Existing ARCA on the Second ARCA Effective Date shall remain outstanding hereunder on the terms set forth herein. 
 (g) Incremental Loan Facility. (i) At any time and from time to time prior to the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date, subject to the
terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may, by notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), request to add one or more additional tranches of loans
(“Incremental Loans” and each such tranche, an “Incremental Facility”), provided that at the time of each such request and upon the effectiveness of each Incremental Facility Amendment, (A) no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom, (B) the Borrower shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with the covenants contained in Sections 6.14 and 6.15 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended
Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), and (C) the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (A) and
(B) above, together with reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with clause (B) above. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Permitted Pari Passu
Indebtedness incurred since the Second ARCA Effective Date and (ii) all commitments, loans and other extensions of credit made available under the Incremental Facilities since the Second ARCA Effective Date shall not exceed $800,000,000. Each
Incremental Facility shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $5,000,000 and not less than $50,000,000, provided that an Incremental Facility may be in any amount less than $50,000,000 if such amount represents all the remaining
availability under the Incremental Facilities pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence. 
 (ii) The
Incremental Loans shall rank pari passu or junior in right of payment in respect of the Collateral and with the obligations in respect of the Revolving Commitments, the Tranche A Term Loans, the Tranche A-2 Term Loans, the Tranche B-1 Term
Loans and the Tranche B-2 Term Loans. In addition, (A) any Incremental Facility providing for term loans shall (1) not have a final maturity date earlier than the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date or the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date, or a Weighted
Average Life to Maturity that is shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the then-remaining Tranche B-1 Term Loans or Tranche B-2 Term Loans, (2) for purposes of prepayments, be treated substantially the

  

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same as (and in any event no more favorably than) the Tranche B-1 Term Loans and the Tranche B-2 Term Loans and (3) otherwise have terms that are no more favorable to the lenders providing
such Incremental Facility than the terms applicable to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans and the Tranche B-2 Term Loans, provided that (w) if the Applicable Rate relating to the term loans under any Incremental Facility exceeds the Applicable
Rate relating to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans by more than 0.25%, the Applicable Rate relating to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the Applicable Rate relating to such Incremental Loans, (x) if the Applicable Rate
relating to the term loans under any Incremental Facility exceeds the Applicable Rate relating to the Tranche B-2 Term Loans by more than 0.25%, the Applicable Rate relating to the Tranche B-2 Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the
Applicable Rate relating to such Incremental Loans, (y) if as a result of any adjustments made pursuant to the preceding clauses (w) and (x) the Applicable Rate relating to the Tranche B-1 Term Loans would exceed the Applicable Rate
relating to the Tranche B-2 Term Loans, the Applicable Rate relating to the Tranche B-2 Term Loans shall be increased in the amount required to eliminate such excess and (z) any determination of the Applicable Rate relating to Incremental
Loans, Tranche B-1 Term Loans or Tranche B-2 Term Loans under the foregoing clause (x), (y) or (z), as applicable, shall include all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable to the Lenders providing such Loans) and
(B) any Incremental Facility providing for revolving loans shall (1) not have a final maturity date, or a commitment availability period that ends, earlier than the latest Revolving Maturity Date then applicable and (2) be subject to
other terms that are similar to the terms then available in the bank financing market to companies having a credit quality similar to the Borrower as determined by a Financial Officer in good faith. 
 (iii) Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.01(g) shall set forth the requested amount and proposed
terms of the relevant Incremental Facility. Any bank, financial institution or other Person (whether or not an existing Lender or Affiliate of an existing Lender) that elects to provide any Incremental Facility (each, an “Incremental
Lender”) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and (other than in the case of existing Lenders providing only term loans under such Incremental Facility) the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent; provided that no
existing Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Loans, unless it so agrees. Any Incremental Facility will be effected pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Facility Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as
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Administrative Agent. Upon the effectiveness of any Incremental Facility Amendment, each Incremental Lender shall become a “Lender” under this Agreement with respect to its obligations
under such Incremental Facility, and the commitments of the Incremental Lenders in respect of such Incremental Facility shall become “Commitments” hereunder; and any Incremental Loans under such Incremental Facility shall, when made,
constitute “Loans” under this Agreement. In addition, any Incremental Facility Amendment may, without the consent of any Lenders other than the Incremental Lenders, effect such amendments to any Loan Documents as may be necessary or
appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.01(g) (including to provide for voting provisions applicable to the Incremental Lenders comparable to the provisions of clause (B) of the
second proviso of Section 9.02(b)). The effectiveness of an Incremental Facility Amendment shall, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Incremental Lenders, be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof (an
“Incremental Facility Closing Date”) of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 (it being understood that all references to “the date of such Borrowing” in Section 4.03 shall be deemed to refer to the
Incremental Facility Closing Date). The proceeds of Incremental Loans will be used only for working capital and other general corporate purposes (including to finance Permitted Acquisitions or Capital Expenditures, in each case to the extent
otherwise permitted hereunder). 
 Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may
borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. Amounts repaid or prepaid in respect of Term Loans may not be reborrowed. 
 (h)
Additional Conversions of Tranche A Term Loans. (i) At any time after the Second ARCA Effective Date, the Borrower may request that any Tranche A Lender convert all or a portion of its Tranche A Term Loans into Tranche A-2 Term Loans.
Any Tranche A Lender wishing to agree to such a conversion shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a duly completed Conversion Agreement. Upon the acceptance by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower of such Conversion Agreement, the Tranche A
Term Loans of such Tranche A Lender specified therein shall be converted into an equal principal amount of Tranche A-2 Term Loans. 
 (ii) The initial Interest Period applicable to each Tranche A-2 Term Loan resulting from the conversion of a Tranche A Term Loan pursuant to clause (i) above that is a Eurodollar Loan shall be the then-current Interest Period
applicable to the Tranche A Term Loan from which it is converted with no conversion into a different Interest Period, payment or prepayment of such Tranche A Term Loan being deemed to have occurred solely due to such conversion. 
  

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 (iii) On a quarterly basis, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of the
aggregate amount of Tranche A Term Loans that have been converted into Tranche A-2 Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.01(h) during the preceding quarter. 
 Section 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Each Revolving Loan and Term Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably
in accordance with their respective Commitments of the applicable Class. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of
the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required. 
 (b)
Subject to Section 2.13, (i) each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or
foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. 
 (c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000; provided that
an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Revolving Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.04(e).
Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of 20 Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding (or, if any Incremental Loans are outstanding, 30).

 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to
convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect to the applicable Loan would end after the Revolving Maturity Date, Tranche A Maturity Date, Tranche A-2 Maturity Date, Tranche B-1 Maturity Date or Tranche B-2
Maturity Date, as applicable. 
 Section 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing, the
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New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the
proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.04(e) may be given not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date
of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, e-mail of a pdf copy or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in a form approved
by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: 
 (i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing; 
 (ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; 
 (iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; 
 (iv) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period
contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; 
 (v) the location and number of the
Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.05; and 
 (vi) as of such date Sections 4.03(a) and (b) are satisfied. 
 If no election as to the Type
of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one
month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the relevant Class of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to
be made as part of the requested Borrowing. 
 Section 2.04. Letters of Credit. (a) General.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account (or for the account of any Wireline Company so long as the Borrower and such Wireline Company are
co-applicants), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank requested to issue such Letter of Credit, at any time and from time to time during the Revolving Availability Period. In the event of any inconsistency
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terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower
with, an Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. 
 (ii) Existing Letters of Credit. Upon consummation of the Merger on the Effective Date and the satisfaction of the conditions in Section 4.03, in each case automatically and without further action on the part of any Person,
(A) each Existing Letter of Credit will be deemed to be a Letter of Credit issued hereunder for all purposes of the Loan Documents, and (B) each Revolving Lender that has issued an Existing Letter of Credit shall be deemed to have granted
to each other Revolving Lender, and each other Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have acquired from such issuer, a participation in each Existing Letter of Credit equal to such other Revolving Lender’s Revolving Percentage of (I) the
aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Existing Letter of Credit and (II) the aggregate amount of any outstanding LC Reimbursement Obligations in respect thereof. With respect to each Existing Letter of Credit (x) if, prior to the
Effective Date, the relevant issuer has heretofore sold a participation therein to a Revolving Lender, such issuer and Revolving Lender agree that such participation shall be automatically canceled upon consummation of the Merger on the Effective
Date, and (y) if, prior to the Effective Date, the relevant issuer has heretofore sold a participation therein to any bank or financial institution that is not a Revolving Lender, such issuer shall procure the termination of such participation
on or prior to the Effective Date. 
 (b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions.
To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver, e-mail or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so
have been approved by the Issuing Bank requested to issue such Letter of Credit) to such Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the
issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is
to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such
Letter of Credit. If requested by the Issuing Bank requested to issue such Letter of Credit, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on such Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of
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renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the LC
Exposure shall not exceed $30,000,000 and (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the total Revolving Commitments. Promptly upon the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or amendment, renewal, extension or termination
of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Issuing Bank shall provide notice of such issuance, amendment, renewal, extension or termination to the Administrative Agent (if different from the Issuing Bank), who shall in turn promptly provide notice of
same to the Revolving Lenders. 
 (c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of
business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five
Business Days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date with respect to 2013 Revolving Loans; provided that (x) any Letter of Credit may provide for the automatic extension or renewal thereof and may be automatically renewed or extended upon
notice delivered by the Borrower in accordance with the terms thereof for additional periods of a duration requested by the Borrower (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause (ii) above) and (y) with the consent
of the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent, Letters of Credit with a term longer than one year shall be permitted (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause (ii) above). 
 (d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and
without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank thereof or any of the Lenders, such Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of
Credit equal to such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Revolving Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in
paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in
respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or
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 (e) Reimbursement. If any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a
Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the
Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City
time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower
receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time on the day of receipt; provided that, if such LC Disbursement is not less than $1,000,000, the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein,
request in accordance with Section 2.03 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced
by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due (or if any such reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason), the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving
Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lender’s Revolving Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Administrative
Agent its Revolving Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.05 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.05 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment
obligations of the Revolving Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment
from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing
Bank, then to such Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse an Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans as
contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement. 
 (f) Obligations Absolute. Except as provided below, the Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional
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enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged,
fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the applicable Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not
comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge
of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor any Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in
connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or
delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence
arising from causes beyond the control of the applicable Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse any Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to
consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that (i) are caused by such Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or willful misconduct in
determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit issued by it comply with the terms thereof, or (ii) result from such Issuing Bank’s willful or grossly negligent failure to pay under any Letter of Credit
after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful
misconduct on the part of an Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the
generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank thereof may, in its sole discretion, either accept and
make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with
the terms of such Letter of Credit, and any such acceptance or refusal shall be deemed not to constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct. 
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demand for payment under a Letter of Credit issued by it. Such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for
payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the
Revolving Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section. 
 (h)
Interim Interest. If any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day
from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to
reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, then Section 2.12(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest
accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment. 
 (i) Replacement of an Issuing Bank. Any Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of an Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees
accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.11(b). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under
this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all
previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this
Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit. 
 (j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or,
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paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in its Cash Collateral Account an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that
the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the
Borrower described in clause (i) or (j) of Article 7. Such deposit shall be held by the Collateral Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations. Moneys in such account (including any earnings on amounts
therein) shall be applied by the Collateral Agent to pay LC Reimbursement Obligations as they become due or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of
the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy the Secured Obligations as provided in Section 13 of the Security Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event
of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned (together with any earnings thereon) to the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived. 
 (k) Requirement to Fund Letters of Credit Following Maturity of 2011 Revolving Loans. On and after the Revolving Maturity Date with
respect to 2011 Revolving Loans, each 2013 Revolving Lender will be required, in accordance with such Lender’s Revolving Percentage, to fund LC Disbursements pursuant to Section 2.04(e) in respect of unreimbursed LC Disbursements arising
on or after such date and/or fund participations in LC Disbursements at the request of the Administrative Agent regardless of whether any Default existed on the Revolving Maturity Date with respect to 2011 Revolving Loans, provided that the
Revolving Credit Exposure of each such Revolving Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment. 
 Section 2.05. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the
account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an
account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in New York City and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as
provided in Section 2.04(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to Section 2.04(e) to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such
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 (b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the
proposed time of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in
accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to
the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is
made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance
with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such
Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. 
 Section 2.06. Interest Elections. (a) Each Revolving
Borrowing and Term Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or designated by Section 2.03 and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such
Borrowing Request or designated by Section 2.03. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all
as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such
Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. 
 (b) To make an election
pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type
resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, e-mail of a pdf copy or telecopy to the
Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower. 
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 (i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if
different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall
be specified for each resulting Borrowing); 
 (ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such
Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day; 
 (iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an
ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and 
 (iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the
Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”. 
 If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s
duration. 
 (d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender
of the relevant Class of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing. 
 (e) If the
Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest
Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the
Borrower (or, in the case of an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (i) or (j) of Article 7 with respect to the Borrower, automatically), then, so long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no outstanding
Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing having an Interest Period longer than one month; provided that, if (x) an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (a), (b), (i) or (j) of Article
7 has occurred and is continuing and (y) other than in the case of an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (i) or (j) of Article 7 with respect to the Borrower, the Required Lenders have so requested, then (i) no
outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid prior to or at the end of the Interest Period then applicable thereto, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at
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 Section 2.07. Termination, Reduction and Extension of Commitments.
(a) Unless previously terminated, (i) the 2011 Revolving Commitment shall terminate on the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to 2011 Revolving Loans, (ii) the 2013 Revolving Commitment shall terminate on the Revolving Maturity Date
applicable to 2013 Revolving Loans, (iii) the Tranche A-2 Commitment shall terminate immediately after the conversion of Tranche A Term Loans into Tranche A-2 Term Loans on the Second ARCA Effective Date and (iv) the Tranche B-2 Commitment
shall terminate immediately after the conversion of Tranche B-1 Term Loans into Tranche B-2 Term Loans on the Second ARCA Effective Date; provided, that the foregoing shall not release any 2011 Revolving Lender from any obligation to fund
2011 Revolving Loans or to reimburse its Revolving Percentage of LC Disbursements that was required to be performed by such 2011 Revolving Lender on or prior to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2011 Revolving Loans. 
 (b) The Borrower may at any time, without premium or penalty, terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments of any Class;
provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving
Commitments to the extent, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance with Section 2.10, the sum of the Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the total Revolving Commitments. 
 (c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of
this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the
Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is
conditioned upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event specified therein (including the consummation of an acquisition, sale or other similar 
 transaction, or the receipt of proceeds from the incurrence or issuance of Indebtedness or Equity Interests or the effectiveness of other credit facilities), in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the
Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments of any Class shall be made
ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments of such Class. 
 (d)(i) Each 2011 Revolving Lender
may elect, in its sole discretion and subject to the consent of the Borrower, to extend the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to such 2011 Revolving Lender’s 2011 Revolving Loans to the

  

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Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2013 Revolving Loans. Subject to receipt by the Administrative Agent of counterparts of an Extension Agreement duly completed and signed by the
Administrative Agent, such 2011 Revolving Lender and the Borrower, the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2011 Revolving Loans of such 2011 Revolving Lender party to such Extension Agreement shall, effective on the effective date of such
Extension Agreement, be extended until the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2013 Revolving Loans. 
 (ii) If not
extended pursuant to subsection (i) of Section 2.07(d) above, the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2011 Revolving Loans of any 2011 Revolving Lender may be extended to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to 2013 Revolving Loans
in the manner and subject to the conditions set forth in this subsection (ii). If the Borrower wishes to request an extension of the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2011 Revolving Loans pursuant to this subsection (ii), it shall deliver an
Extension Request in writing to the Administrative Agent not later than 45 days and not sooner than 180 days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2011 Revolving Loans, which shall then be promptly forwarded by the Administrative
Agent to each 2011 Revolving Lender. Each 2011 Revolving Lender shall use commercially reasonable efforts to respond to any such request, whether affirmatively or negatively, as it may elect in its discretion, no later than the thirtieth day after
such request is made (the “Response Deadline”), provided that if a 2011 Revolving Lender fails to respond by the Response Deadline to the Extension Request, such 2011 Revolving Lender shall be deemed not to have consented to
such Extension Request. If less than all 2011 Revolving Lenders respond affirmatively to such request within 30 days, then the Borrower may require each 2011 Revolving Lender that does not elect to extend the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to
its 2011 Revolving Loans (a “Non-Extending 2011 Revolving Lender”) to assign pursuant to Section 9.04(b), no later than 15 days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2013 Revolving Loans, its 2011 Revolving
Commitment (and any outstanding 2011 Revolving Loans of such 2011 Revolving Lender related thereto) to one or more assignees which have agreed to such assignment and to extend the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to such 2011 Revolving Loans to
the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2013 Revolving Loans, provided that (x) each assigning Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and funded participations in LC
Disbursements, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts),
(y) the processing and recordation fee specified in Section 9.04(b) shall be paid by the Borrower or such assignee and (z) each such Non-Extending 2011 Revolving Lender shall continue to be entitled to the rights under
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Administrative Agent of counterparts of an Extension Agreement duly completed and signed by the Administrative Agent, each 2011 Revolving Lender agreeing to so extend and the Borrower, the
Revolving Maturity Date applicable to the 2011 Revolving Loans of each 2011 Revolving Lender party to such Extension Agreement shall, effective on the effective date of such Extension Agreement, be extended to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable
to the 2013 Revolving Loans. 
 (iii) Each 2011 Revolving Lender that agrees to extend the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to
its 2011 Revolving Loans to the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to 2013 Revolving Loans pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above shall automatically be, from the effective date of such extension, deemed to be a 2013 Revolving Lender, and
such Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Loans and Revolving Commitment shall, solely to the extent that such 2011 Revolving Lender has extended the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to its 2011 Revolving Loans to the Revolving Maturity Date
applicable to 2013 Revolving Loans, be deemed to be 2013 Revolving Loans and a 2013 Revolving Commitment, respectively, for all purposes of this Amended Agreement. 
 Section 2.08. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent (i) for the account of each Revolving Lender
the then unpaid principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans on the Revolving Maturity Date applicable to such Revolving Loans and (ii) for the account of each Term Lender the then unpaid principal amount of such Lender’s Term
Loans as provided in Section 2.09. 
 (b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or
accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. 
 (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and
Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the
Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof. 
 (d) The entries made in
the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be, absent manifest error, prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any
Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. 
  

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 (e) Any Lender may request that Loans of any Class made by it be evidenced by a promissory
note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative
Agent; provided that, in order for any such promissory note to be delivered on the Effective Date, the request therefor shall be delivered no later than two Business Days prior to the Effective Date. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such
promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a
registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns). Any such promissory note evidencing a Term Loan prior to the Second ARCA Effective Date may be exchanged, upon the request of the relevant Lender made through the Administrative Agent and
the surrender of such promissory note to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, for promissory notes evidencing the Tranche A-1 Term Loans and/or the Tranche B-2 Term Loans, as applicable, into which such Lender’s Term Loans were
converted on the Second ARCA Effective Date. Any such promissory note evidencing a Tranche A Term Loan that is converted into a Tranche A-2 Term Loan on any Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date may be exchanged, upon the request of the relevant
Lender made through the Administrative Agent and the surrender of such promissory note to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, for promissory notes evidencing the Tranche A-2 Term Loans into which such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans
were converted on such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date. 
 Section 2.09. Scheduled Amortization of Term Loans.
(a) Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2.09(f), the Borrower shall repay Tranche A Term Loans on each date set forth below in the aggregate principal amount equal to the amount set forth opposite such date: 
  

				
	 Date
	  	Principal
Amount
	 Last day of the Fiscal Quarter Ending March 31, 2011
	  	$	3,331,476.44
	 Tranche A Maturity Date
	  	 
 
 
 	Remaining
principal amount
of Tranche A
Term Loans

 (b) Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2.09(f), the Borrower shall repay
Tranche B-1 Term Loans (i) on the last day of each Fiscal Quarter ending on or after December 31, 2009 and prior to the Tranche B-1 Maturity Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to $743,038.26 and (ii) on the Tranche B-1
Maturity Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of Tranche B-1 Term Loans then outstanding. 
  

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 (c) Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2.09(f), the Borrower shall repay Tranche
A-2 Term Loans on each date set forth below in the aggregate principal amount equal to the amount set forth opposite such date: 
  

				
	 Date
	  	Percentage
	 Last day of each Fiscal Quarter ending during the period from and including September 30, 2011 to but excluding
June 30, 2013
	  	$	4,643,906.00
	 Tranche A-2 Maturity Date
	  	 
 
 
 	Remaining
principal amount
of Tranche A-2
Term Loans

 (d) Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2.09(f), the Borrower shall repay
Tranche B-2 Term Loans (i) on the last day of each Fiscal Quarter ending on or after December 31, 2009 and prior to the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to 0.25% of the initial principal amount of Tranche
B-2 Term Loans and (ii) on the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of Tranche B-2 Term Loans then outstanding. 
 (e) To the extent not previously paid, (i) all Tranche A Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Tranche A Maturity Date, (ii) all Tranche B-1 Term Loans shall be due and payable on the
Tranche B-1 Maturity Date, (iii) all Tranche A-2 Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Tranche A-2 Maturity Date and (iv) all Tranche B-2 Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Tranche B-2 Maturity Date. 
 (f)(i) Any prepayment of Term Loans of any Class will be applied to reduce the subsequent scheduled repayments of the Term Loans of such
Class to be made pursuant to this Section, in the case of mandatory prepayments, other than any mandatory prepayments required in respect of Net Proceeds received from the sale by the Borrower of Term Loans, if any, received by the Borrower pursuant
to the Directories Debt Exchange (“Exchanged Term Loan Mandatory Prepayments”), in direct order of maturity, and in the case of voluntary prepayments and Exchanged Term Loan Mandatory Prepayments, ratably; provided that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any prepayment of Tranche A Term Loans made with Net Proceeds received from the sale by the Borrower of Tranche A Term Loans, if any, received by the Borrower pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange will be applied
to reduce the subsequent scheduled repayments of the Tranche A Term Loans as directed by the Borrower. 
 (ii) Effective on each
Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date prior to March 31, 2011, the aggregate dollar principal amount of Tranche A Term Loans that the Borrower would have otherwise been required to repay on the last day of

  

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the Fiscal Quarter ending March 31, 2011 pursuant to Section 2.09(a) (as the same may have been adjusted prior to such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date pursuant to
Section 2.09(f)(i) and this Section 2.09(f)(ii)) (such amount, the “Otherwise Applicable Tranche A Amortization Payment Amount”) shall be reduced by an amount equal to the product of (x) the aggregate principal amount
of Tranche A Term Loans converted into Tranche A-2 Term Loans on such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date multiplied by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Otherwise Applicable Tranche A Amortization Payment Amount and the
denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Term Loans outstanding on such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date prior to giving effect to such conversion. 
 (iii) Effective on each Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date, the aggregate dollar principal amount of Tranche A-2 Term Loans that the
Borrower would have otherwise been required to repay on each date (other than the Tranche A-2 Maturity Date) pursuant to Section 2.09(c) (as the same may have been adjusted prior to such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date pursuant to
Section 2.09(f)(i) and this Section 2.09(f)(iii)) (each such amount with respect to each such date, the “Otherwise Applicable Tranche A-2 Amortization Payment Amount”) shall be increased by an amount equal to the product
of (x) the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Term Loans converted into Tranche A-2 Term Loans on such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date multiplied by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Otherwise Applicable
Tranche A-2 Amortization Payment Amount and the denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A-2 Term Loans outstanding on such Subsequent Tranche A Conversion Date prior to giving effect to such conversion. 
 For the avoidance of doubt, it is the intention of the parties that the operation of the preceding clauses (ii) and (iii) of this
Section 2.09(f) result in such adjustments to the scheduled amortization payments in respect of Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche A-2 Term Loans as are necessary to ensure that (A) conversions of Tranche A Term Loans into Tranche A-2 Term
Loans (“New Tranche A-2 Term Loans”) pursuant to Section 2.01(h) do not result in any change to the scheduled amortization with respect to (x) those Tranche A Term Loans not so converted or (y) those Tranche A-2 Term
Loans outstanding prior to any such conversion and (B) the scheduled amortization payments applicable to New Tranche A-2 Term Loans (as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) are equal to the scheduled amortization payments applicable to
all other Tranche A-2 Term Loans. 
 (g) Before repaying any Term Loans of any Class pursuant to this Section, the Borrower
shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings of the applicable Class to be repaid and shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such selection not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before
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Each such repayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in such Borrowing and shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the amount repaid; provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may (i) exchange Directories Notes for Term Loans on a non pro rata basis pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange, and to the extent the Borrower assigns any such Term Loans received pursuant to the
Directories Debt Exchange to any Person other than an Affiliate of the Borrower, the Borrower may prepay such Term Loans without prepaying any other Term Loans, (ii) use the proceeds from the Debt Offering to prepay Tranche B Term Loans without
allocating such prepayment among the Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche B Term Loans on a pro rata basis, (iii) use the cash proceeds from the Directories Transactions to prepay Term Loans without allocating such prepayment among each Class of
Term Loans on a pro rata basis and (iv) use the proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans to prepay Tranche B Term Loans without allocating such proceeds among the Tranche A Term Loans and the Tranche B Term Loans on a pro rata basis. 

Section 2.10. Optional and Mandatory Prepayment of Loans. (a) Optional Prepayments. The Borrower shall have the
right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part without premium or penalty but subject to Section 2.15 and the requirements of this Section. 
 (b) LC Exposure Exceeds 2013 Revolving Commitment. If for any reason at any time during the five Business Day period immediately
preceding the Revolving Maturity Date for the 2011 Revolving Commitments, the 2011 Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Percentage of the Revolving Credit Exposure attributable to LC Exposure exceeds the amount of the 2013 Revolving Commitments minus
the 2013 Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure at such time, then the Borrower shall promptly prepay or cause to be promptly prepaid Revolving Loans and/or cash collateralize the LC Reimbursement
Obligations in an aggregate amount necessary to eliminate such excess. If for any reason at any time after the Revolving Maturity Date for the 2011 Revolving Commitments the Revolving Credit Exposure exceeds the amount of the 2013 Revolving
Commitments minus the 2013 Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure, then the Borrower shall promptly prepay or cause to be promptly prepaid Revolving Loans and/or cash collateralize the LC
Reimbursement Obligations in an aggregate amount necessary to eliminate such excess. 
 (c) Asset Dispositions. Within
five Business Days after any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Wireline Company in respect of any Asset Disposition, the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.10(j)) prepay Term Borrowings in an aggregate amount equal to such Net
Proceeds; provided that, if the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect that (i) the Wireline Companies intend to apply the Net

  

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Proceeds from such Asset Disposition (or a portion thereof specified in such certificate), within 365 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds, to acquire Replacement Assets, (ii) the
property acquired in connection therewith will be included in the Collateral at least to the extent that the property disposed of was included therein or shall be property of a Collateral Support Party and (iii) no Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, then no prepayment will be required pursuant to this subsection in respect of such Net Proceeds (or the portion of such Net Proceeds specified in such certificate, if applicable) except that, if any such Net Proceeds have not been
so applied (or committed to be applied, except to the extent such Net Proceeds are not so applied within 365 days after such commitment) by the end of such 365-day period, a prepayment will be required at that time in an amount equal to the amount
of such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied or committed to be so applied. 
 (d) Casualty Events. Within five
Business Days after any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Wireline Company in respect of any Casualty Event, the Borrower shall (subject to Section 2.10(j)) prepay Term Borrowings in an aggregate amount equal to such Net
Proceeds; provided that, if the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect that (i) the Wireline Companies intend to apply the Net Proceeds from such event (or a portion thereof
specified in such certificate), within 365 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds, to repair, restore or replace the property with respect to which such Net Proceeds were received or to acquire Replacement Assets, and (ii) any property
acquired in connection with such application (whether as replacement property or Replacement Assets) will be included in the Collateral at least to the extent that the property to be replaced was included therein or shall be property of a Collateral
Support Party, then no prepayment will be required pursuant to this subsection in respect of such Net Proceeds (or the portion of such Net Proceeds specified in such certificate, if applicable) except that, if any such Net Proceeds have not been so
applied (or committed to be applied, except to the extent such Net Proceeds are not so applied within 365 days after such commitment) by the end of such 365-day period, a prepayment will be required at that time in an amount equal to the amount of
such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied or committed to be so applied. 
 (e) Allocation of Prepayments, Right to
Decline Tranche B-1 and Tranche B-2 Mandatory Prepayments. Before any optional or mandatory prepayment of Borrowings hereunder, the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings to be prepaid and shall specify such selection in the notice of
such prepayment pursuant to paragraph (h) of this Section. In the event of any optional or mandatory prepayment of Term Borrowings made at a time when Term Borrowings of more than one Class remain outstanding, the Borrower shall select Term
Borrowings to be prepaid so that the aggregate amount of such prepayment is allocated among the Term Borrowings of each Class pro rata based on the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Borrowings of each such Class, 
  

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provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may (i) exchange Directories Notes for Term Loans on a non pro rata basis pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange, and to
the extent the Borrower assigns any such Term Loans received pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange to any Person other than an Affiliate of the Borrower, the Borrower may prepay such Term Loans without prepaying any other Term Loans,
(ii) use the proceeds from the Debt Offering to prepay Tranche B Term Loans without allocating such prepayment among the Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche B Term Loans on a pro rata basis, (iii) use the cash proceeds from the Directories
Transaction to prepay Term Loans without allocating such prepayment among each Class of Term Loans on a pro rata basis and (iv) use the proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans to prepay Tranche B Term Loans without allocating such proceeds among
the Tranche A Term Loans and the Tranche B Term Loans on a pro rata basis; and provided further that any Tranche B-1 Lender and any Tranche B-2 Lender may elect, by notice to the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) at
least one Business Day prior to the prepayment date, to decline all or any portion of any prepayment of its Tranche B-1 Term Loans or Tranche B-2 Term Loans, as applicable pursuant to this Section (other than an optional prepayment pursuant to
paragraph (a) of this Section or prepayment with the cash proceeds from the Directories Transaction which may not be declined), in which case the aggregate amount of the prepayment that would have been applied to prepay Tranche B-1 Term Loans
or Tranche B-2 Loans of any such Class but was so declined shall be applied to prepay Term Borrowings of the other Classes until no Term Borrowings of any other Class remain outstanding. Any excess Net Proceeds after application to such other
Classes shall be applied to prepay any outstanding Tranche B-2 Term Loans. All optional or mandatory prepayments of Revolving Borrowings made at a time when Revolving Borrowings of more than one Class remain outstanding shall be allocated among the
Revolving Borrowings of each such Class pro rata based on the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Borrowings of each such Class. 
 (f) Accrued Interest. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12. 
 (g) Optional Prepayment of Tranche B-1 Term Loans. Each prepayment of Tranche B-1 Term Loans on or prior to the first anniversary of the Amendment Effective Date shall include the Optional
Prepayment Premium on such Loans, but solely to the extent that such prepayment is made with the proceeds of Indebtedness the final maturity of which is later or the interest rate of which is lower, in each case, than the Tranche B-1 Term Loans.

 (h) Notice of Prepayments. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of
any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of

  

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prepayment or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be
irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment;
provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.07, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of
termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.07; provided further that, the Borrower may deliver a conditional prepayment notice subject to the proviso in Section 2.07(c). Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the
Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. 
 (i) Partial Prepayments. Each partial
prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as needed to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment or to
allocate an optional prepayment of Term Loans or Revolving Loans as required by paragraph (e) of this Section. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing, provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may (i) exchange Directories Notes for Term Loans on a non pro rata basis pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange, and to the extent the Borrower assigns any such Term Loans received pursuant to the
Directories Debt Exchange to any Person other than an Affiliate of the Borrower, the Borrower may prepay such Term Loans without prepaying any other Term Loans, (ii) use the proceeds from the Debt Offering to prepay Tranche B Term Loans without
allocating such prepayment among the Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche B Term Loans on a pro rata basis, (iii) use the cash proceeds from the Directories Transaction to prepay Term Loans without allocating such prepayment among each Class of
Term Loans on a pro rata basis and (iv) use the proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans to prepay Tranche B Term Loans without allocating such proceeds among the Tranche A Term Loans and the Tranche B Term Loans on a pro rata basis. Prepayments
shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12. 
 (j) Deferral of Prepayments. The
Borrower may defer any mandatory prepayment otherwise required under paragraph (c) or (d) above until the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds otherwise required to be applied to prepay Borrowings pursuant to paragraphs (c) and
(d) above (whether resulting from one or more Asset Dispositions or Casualty Events, but after giving effect to any applications of proceeds permitted under such paragraphs) equals or exceeds $30,000,000, at which time the entire unutilized
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 Section 2.11. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the applicable Commitment Fee Rate on the average daily unused amount of the applicable Revolving Commitment of such Revolving
Lender and the during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates. Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each
year and on the date on which the Revolving Commitments of the relevant Class terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable
for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). 
 (b) The Borrower agrees to pay
(i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to
determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Revolving Loans of such Revolving Lender on the average daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the
period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to each Issuing Bank a
fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of 0.25% per annum on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by such
Issuing Bank during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure with respect to Letters of Credit issued
by such Issuing Bank, as well as such Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through
and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such
fees shall be payable to the applicable Revolving Lenders on the date on which the Revolving Commitments of such Revolving Lenders terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments of such Revolving Lenders
terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to any Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days
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 (c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account and the
account of the Collateral Agent, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower such Agents. 
 (d) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to each Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and
participation fees, to the Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances. 
 Section 2.12.
Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing of each Class shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for such Class. 
 (b) The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing of each Class shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate for such Class.

 (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the
Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in
the case of any principal of any Loan or any LC Disbursements, 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan or LC Disbursement as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other overdue amount, 2%
plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section. 
 (d) Accrued interest on each Loan
shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section
shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Revolving Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid
or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on
the effective date of such conversion. 
 (e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days,
except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be
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excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest
error. 
 Section 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a
Eurodollar Borrowing: 
 (a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error)
that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or 
 (b) the
Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such
Interest Period; 
 then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly
as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any
Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing. 
 Section 2.14. Increased Costs. (a) Except with respect to Taxes, which shall be governed by Section 2.16, if any
Change in Law shall: 
 (i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar
requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or any Issuing Bank; or 
 (ii) impose on any Lender or any Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting
this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; 
 and the result of any of the
foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or
maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case
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amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered. 
 (b) If any Lender or any Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of
reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in
Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such
Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay
to such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered. 
 (c) A certificate of a Lender or an Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank
or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the
case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 Business Days after receipt thereof. 
 (d) Failure or
delay on the part of any Lender or Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not
be required to compensate a Lender or an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the
Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or
reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. 
 Section 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment by or on behalf of the Borrower of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest
Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default),
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hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.10(h) and is revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the
last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.07(d)(ii), Section 2.18 or Section 9.02(c), then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the
loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest
which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current
Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such
period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth
any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof. 
 Section 2.16. Taxes. (a) Except as required by applicable
law, any and all payments by or with respect to any obligation of the Borrower hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct
any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) any
Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount
deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. 
 (b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay
any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. 
 (c) To the extent not paid by the
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.16(a), the Borrower shall indemnify each Agent, each Lender and each Issuing Bank, within 10 Business Days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by such
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or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether
or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A copy of a receipt or any other document evidencing payment that is reasonably acceptable to Borrower as to the
amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by, an Agent, a Lender or an Issuing Bank, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of an Agent, a Lender or an Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error. 
 (d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental
Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such
payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 
 (e)(i) Each Recipient that is a U.S. person as defined in
Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and if applicable, the assigning Lender (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased)
on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of (i) a Participant, on or before the date on which such Participant purchases the related participation and (ii) an assignee, on or before the effective
date of such assignment), two duly completed and signed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9. Each Recipient that is not a U.S. person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (a “Foreign Recipient”) shall, to the
extent it is legally able to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and if applicable, the assigning Lender (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased) on or
before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of (x) a Participant, on or before the date on which such Participant purchases the related participation and (y) an assignee, on or before the effective date
of such assignment) either: 
 (A) two copies of a duly completed and signed Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8ECI, Form W-8BEN (with respect to eligibility for benefits under any income tax treaty) or Form W-8IMY or successor and related applicable forms, as the case may be, certifying to such Foreign Recipient’s entitlement as of such date to an
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 (B) in the case of a Foreign Recipient that is not a “bank” within
the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code and that does not comply with the requirements of clause (A) hereof, (x) a statement in form and content reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to the effect
that such Foreign Recipient is eligible for a complete exemption from withholding of U.S. Taxes under Code section 871(h) or 881(c) (a “Foreign Recipient Complete Exemption Certificate”), and (y) two duly completed and signed
copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or any successor and related applicable form. 
 Further, each Foreign Recipient agrees,
(i) to the extent it is not precluded from doing so by a Change in Law and otherwise legally able to do so, to deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and if applicable, the assigning Lender (or, in the case of a Participant, to
the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased), from time to time, two copies of a duly completed and signed applicable Form W-8 or successor and related applicable forms or certificates, on or before the date that any
such form or certificate, as the case may be, expires or becomes obsolete or invalid in accordance with applicable U.S. laws and regulations, (ii) in the case of a Foreign Recipient that delivers a Foreign Recipient Complete Exemption
Certificate, to deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and if applicable, the assigning Lender (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased), such statement on an
annual basis reasonably promptly after the anniversary of the date on which such Foreign Recipient became a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of a Participant, the date on which the Participant purchased the related participation), and
(iii) to notify promptly the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased) if it is no longer able to deliver, or if it is required to
withdraw or cancel, any form or certificate previously delivered by it pursuant to this Section 2.16(e). 
 (ii) In addition, but without duplication of the covenant as to United States withholding tax contained in Section 2.16(e)(i), any Recipient that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the
jurisdiction(s) in which the Borrower is organized, or any treaty to which any such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times
prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. 
  

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 (f) If any Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank determines, in its discretion exercised in good
faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.16, it shall pay over such refund
to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 2.16 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of
such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Borrower, upon the request of such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank,
agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank in the event such Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank is required to
repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require the any Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to
the Borrower or any other Person. 
 Section 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.
(a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, or otherwise) no later than
2:00 pm, New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received
on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent to the applicable account designated to the Borrower, except payments to be made directly to an Issuing
Bank as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16 and Section 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments made pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to
the Persons specified therein. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a
day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder
shall be made in dollars. 
 (b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to
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(i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and
(ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.

 (c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any
principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and accrued interest
thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC Disbursements of other Lenders to the extent
necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans and participations in LC Disbursements; provided
that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest,
(ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the
assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to any Wireline Company or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply
except as provided in clause (ii) of this Section 2.17(c)) and (iii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to (A) Directories Notes received by any Lender in exchange for Term Loans pursuant to the Directories Debt
Exchange, if any, (B) any prepayment by the Borrower of Term Loans received by the Borrower pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange, (C) any prepayment by the Borrower of one (but not the other) Class of Term Loans with proceeds from the
Debt Offering, (D) any prepayment by the Borrower of one (but not the other) Class of Term Loans with cash proceeds from the Directories Transaction or (E) any prepayment by the Borrower of Tranche B Term Loans with the proceeds of the
Tranche B-1 Term Loans. The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the
Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. 
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Agent for the account of any of the Lenders or any Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment
on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to such Lenders or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders
or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount
is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation. 
 (e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(d) or
(e), 2.05(a) or (b), 2.17(d) or 9.03(c), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to
satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid. 
 Section 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder
to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14 or 2.16, as the case may be, in the future and
(ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Lender in
connection with any such designation or assignment. 
 (b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or the
Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16, or (ii) any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder (any Lender described in this
clause (ii), a “Defaulting Lender”), then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with
and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment);
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prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing Banks), which consents shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender
shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and funded participations in LC Disbursements, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the
extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (iii) the Borrower, the Defaulting Lender (if any) or such assignee shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the
processing and recordation fee specified in Section 9.04(b) and (iv) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.16, such
assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the
Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. 
 ARTICLE 3 
 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 
 The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lender Parties that: 
 Section 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each of the Wireline Companies is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required by applicable law. 
 Section 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents by each Wireline
Company are within its corporate (or other organizational) powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate (or other organizational) action with respect to such Wireline Company. This Amended Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower or such Loan
Party, as the case may be, in each case enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of
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 Section 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions and the
Directories Transactions (a) do not require any material Governmental Authorization, except (i) such as have been or prior to or concurrently with the consummation of the Transactions or the Directories Transactions, as the case may be,
will be obtained or made and are or prior to or concurrently with the consummation of the Transactions or the Directories Transactions, as the case may be, will be in full force and effect, (ii) notices required to be filed with the FCC or any
applicable PUC after the consummation of the Transactions or the Directories Transactions, as the case may be, and (iii) filings necessary to perfect the Transaction Liens, (b) will not violate (1) any applicable law or regulation
applicable to any Wireline Company, (2) the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of any Wireline Company or (3) any material Governmental Authorization in any material respect, (c) will not violate or result in a default
under any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon any Wireline Company or any of its assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by any Wireline Company or give rise to a right of, or result in,
termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation thereunder, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (other than the Transaction Liens) on any asset of any Wireline Company, except, with respect to clauses
(b)(1), (c) and (d), to the extent any of the foregoing could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 
 Section 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows (A) as
of and for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2008, reported on by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent public accountants, and (B) as of and for the Fiscal Quarter and the portion of the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 2009, certified
by its chief financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such
periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (B) above. 
 (b) Since December 31, 2008, there has been no state of facts, change, development, event, effect, condition or occurrence that, individually or in the aggregate, has had a Material Adverse Effect.

 Section 3.05. Properties. (a) Each of the Wireline Companies has good title to, or valid leasehold interests
in, all its real and personal property material to its business, except for Liens permitted under Section 6.02, and minor defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted and except where
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 (b) Each of the Wireline Companies owns, or has the right to use, all trademarks,
tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property material to its business, and the use thereof by the Wireline Companies does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such failure to own or have license or such
infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
 (c) Schedule 3.05 sets forth the correct address of each material real property having a Fair Market Value (as reasonably determined by a Financial Officer in good faith) exceeding $10,000,000 that is owned by any Wireline Company as of the
Effective Date after giving effect to the Transactions. 
 Section 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters.
(a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting any Wireline Company that (i) could reasonably be
expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) involve any of the Loan Documents, the Transactions or the Directories Transactions. 
 (b) Except for the Disclosed Matters and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any other Wireline Company (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval
required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received written notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental
Liability. 
 (c) Since the date of this Amended Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters
that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect. 
 Section 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements. Each of the Wireline Companies is in compliance with (a) all laws, regulations and Governmental Authorizations, in each case applicable to it or its property, (b) each
of the Transaction Documents and the Directories Transaction Documents and (c) all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except, in each case, where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing. 
  

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 Section 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status. No Wireline Company is
required to be regulated as an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940. 
 Section 3.09. Taxes. Each of the Wireline Companies has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes
required to have been paid by it, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the applicable Wireline Company has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the
failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Second ARCA Effective Date, the Tax Sharing Agreement (as defined in the Merger Agreement) is the only agreement among the Loan Parties regarding tax
sharing, tax reimbursement or tax indemnification. 
 Section 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is
reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
 Section 3.11. Disclosure. As of the Second ARCA Effective Date, the Borrower has disclosed to the Lenders all agreements,
instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which any Wireline Company is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the
Information Memorandum nor any of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other information concerning any of the Wireline Companies (other than the projections, budgets or other estimates, or information of a general economic or industry
nature concerning the Wireline Companies) furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Lender Party in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or delivered hereunder or thereunder (as modified or
supplemented by other information so furnished), when taken as a whole, contains as of the date furnished any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed
by it to be reasonable at the time they were made; it being understood that projections by their nature are uncertain and no assurance is being given that the results reflected in such projected financial information will be achieved. 
 Section 3.12. Subsidiaries. Schedule 3.12 sets forth the name of, and the ownership interest of the Borrower in, each of its
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Date. All the Subsidiaries are, and will at all times be, fully consolidated in the Borrower’s consolidated financial statements to the extent required by GAAP. 
 Section 3.13. Insurance. Schedule 3.13 sets forth a description of all material insurance maintained by or on behalf of the
Wireline Companies as of the Effective Date. As of the Second ARCA Effective Date, all premiums in respect of such insurance have been paid to the extent then due. 
 Section 3.14. Labor Matters. As of the Second ARCA Effective Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against any Wireline Company pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened. The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Wireline Companies have not violated the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters, except where it would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Second ARCA Effective Date, there is no organizing activity involving the Borrower or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened by
any labor union or group of employees, except those that, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Second ARCA Effective Date, there are no representation proceedings pending or, to the
knowledge of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened with the National Mediation Board, and no labor organization or group of employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary has made a pending demand for recognition, except those that, in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no material complaints or charges against the Borrower or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, threatened to be filed
with any Governmental Authority or arbitrator based on, arising out of, in connection with, or otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any individual, except those that, in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The consummation of the Transactions and the Directories Transactions will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union
under any collective bargaining agreement by which any Wireline Company is bound. 
 Section 3.15. Solvency. On the
Second ARCA Effective Date, (a) the fair value of the assets of each Loan Party, at a fair valuation, will exceed its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise; (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of each
Loan Party will exceed the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured; (c) each Loan
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small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and proposed to be conducted after the Effective Date. 
 Section 3.16. Licenses; Franchises. (a) Each of the Wireline Companies holds all Regulatory Authorizations and all other
material Governmental Authorizations (including but not limited to franchises, ordinances and other agreements granting access to public rights of way, issued or granted to any Wireline Company by a state or federal agency or commission or other
federal, state or local or foreign regulatory bodies regulating competition and telecommunications businesses) (collectively, the “Wireline Licenses”) that are required for the conduct of its business as presently conducted and as
proposed to be conducted, except to the extent the failure to hold any Wireline Licenses would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 
 (b) Each Wireline License is valid and in full force and effect and has not been, or will not have been, suspended, revoked, cancelled or
adversely modified, except to the extent any failure to be in full force and effect or any suspension, revocation, cancellation or modification has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect. No Wireline License is subject to (i) any conditions or requirements that have not been imposed generally upon licenses in the same service, unless such conditions or requirements would not reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) any pending regulatory proceeding (other than those affecting the wireline industry generally) or judicial review before a Governmental Authority, unless such pending
regulatory proceedings or judicial review would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower does not have knowledge of any event, condition or circumstance that would preclude any
Wireline License from being renewed in the ordinary course (to the extent that such Wireline License is renewable by its terms), except where the failure to be renewed has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 
 (c) The licensee of each Wireline License is in compliance with each Wireline License
and has fulfilled and performed, or will fulfill or perform, all of its material obligations with respect thereto, including with respect to the filing of all reports, notifications and applications required by the Communications Act or the rules,
regulations, policies, instructions and orders of the FCC or any PUC, and the payment of all regulatory fees and contributions, except (i) for exemptions, waivers or similar concessions or allowances and (ii) where such failure to be in
compliance or to fulfill or perform its obligations or pay such fees or contributions has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 
  

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 (d) A Wireline Company owns all of the Equity Interests in, and Controls, all of the voting
power and decision-making authority of, each licensee of the Wireline Licenses, except where the failure to own such Equity Interests or Control such voting power and decision-making authority of such licensees would not reasonably be expected to
have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 
 Section 3.17. OFAC. Neither the Borrower nor
any Subsidiary is (a) named on the list of Specially Designated Nationals or Blocked Persons maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control or (b)(i) an agency of the government of a country,
(ii) an organization controlled by a country or (iii) a Person resident in a country, in each case that is subject to a sanctions program identified on the list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign
Assets Control, as such program may be applicable to such agency, organization or Person, and the proceeds from the Loans will not be used to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or make any payments to, any such country
or Person. 
 ARTICLE 4 
 CONDITIONS 
 Section 4.01. [Reserved]. 
 Section 4.02. [Reserved]. 
 Section 4.03. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing, and of the Issuing Banks to issue, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is
subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions: 
 (a) The representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth
in the Loan Documents that are qualified by materiality shall be true and correct, and the representations that are not so qualified shall be true and correct in all material respects, in each case, on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the
date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable (other than with respect to any representation and warranty that expressly relates to an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be
true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date). 
 (b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to
such Borrowing or the issuance, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. 
  

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 (c) After giving effect to any such requested Borrowing or the issuance, renewal or
extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, occurring during the five (5) Business Day period immediately preceding the Revolving Maturity Date for the 2011 Revolving Commitments, the Borrower would not be required by
Section 2.10(b) to prepay or cause to be prepaid Revolving Loans and/or cash collateralize or cause to be cash collateralized the LC Reimbursement Obligations. 
 Each Borrowing and each issuance, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in
paragraphs (a) and (b) (and, if applicable, paragraph (c)) of this Section. 
 ARTICLE 5 
 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS 
 Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have
expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that: 
 Section 5.01. Financial Statements; Ratings Change and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent on behalf of each Lender (and the Administrative Agent will make available to each Lender):

 (a) as soon as available and in no event later than 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, its audited consolidated
balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year, all reported on by
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to
the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied; 
 (b) as soon as available and in no event later than 45 days after the end of each of the first three
Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year, its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such Fiscal Quarter and the then elapsed portion of the Fiscal Year, setting
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end of) the previous Fiscal Year, all certified by a Financial Officer as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; 
 (c) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above, a certificate of a Financial Officer (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a
Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.13 (including specifying the
amount, if any, of Capital Expenditures financed with Available Equity Proceeds or Reinvestment Funds), 6.14 and 6.15, (iii) to the extent that any such change in GAAP has an impact on such financial statements, stating whether any change in
GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.04, and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying
such certificate and (iv) certifying as to the amounts of Available Cash, Available Distributable Cash, Available Equity Proceeds of the date of such certificate and setting forth reasonably detailed calculations thereof; 
 (d) within 60 days after the beginning of each Fiscal Year, a detailed consolidated budget for such Fiscal Year (including a projected
consolidated balance sheet and related statements of projected operations and cash flows as of the end of and for such Fiscal Year and setting forth the assumptions used in preparing such budget) and, promptly when available, any significant
revisions of such budget approved by the board of directors of the Borrower; 
 (e) promptly after the same become publicly
available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by any Wireline Company with the SEC or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the Borrower to its shareholders generally, as the case
may be; and 
 (f) promptly following any reasonable written request by Administrative Agent therefor, (i) copies of all
material reports and written information to and from (A) the FCC or any PUC with jurisdiction over the property or business of any Wireline Company or (B) the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or any state or local agency
responsible for environmental matters, the United States Occupational Health and Safety Administration, or any state or local agency responsible for health and safety matters, or any successor or other agencies or authorities concerning
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or compliance with the terms of any Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) may reasonably request. 
 (g) Any financial statement or other materials required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 5.01 shall be deemed to have been
delivered on the date on which such information is posted on the Borrower’s website on the Internet or by the Administrative Agent on an IntraLinks or similar site to which Lenders have been granted access or shall be available on the
SEC’s website on the Internet at www.sec.gov; provided that (i) the Borrower shall give notice of any such posting to the Administrative Agent (who shall then give notice of any such posting to the Lenders), and (ii) the
Borrower shall deliver paper copies of any such documents to the Administrative Agent if the Administrative Agent requests the Borrower to deliver such paper copies. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every instance the Borrower shall be
required to provide paper copies of any certificate required by Section 5.01(c) to the Administrative Agent. Except for such certificates, the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the
documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies
of such documents. Furthermore, if any financial statement or other materials required to be delivered under this Agreement shall be required to be delivered on any date that is not a Business Day, such information may be delivered to the
Administrative Agent on the next succeeding Business Day after such date. 
 Section 5.02. Notices of Material
Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will make available to each Lender) prompt written notice of a Responsible Officer obtaining Knowledge of any of the following: 
 (a) the occurrence of any Default; 
 (b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting any Wireline Company or any Affiliate thereof that could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; 
 (c) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together
with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; 
 (d)(i)
the occurrence of, or receipt of a written notice of any claim with respect to, any Environmental Liability that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) receipt of a written notice of non-compliance with any
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any Environmental Law to the extent such non-compliance could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and 
 (e)(i) non-compliance with any Regulatory Authorization, to the extent such non-compliance could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, or (ii) receipt of any written notice from any Governmental Authority in relation to the continuation, validity, renewal or conditions attaching to any Regulatory Authorization which could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. 
 Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer
or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto. 
 Section 5.03. Information Regarding Collateral. (a) The Borrower will furnish to the Collateral Agent prompt written notice
of any change in (i) any Loan Party’s legal name, jurisdiction of organization, chief executive office or principal place of business, (ii) any Loan Party’s identity or form of organization or (iii) any Loan Party’s
federal Taxpayer Identification Number. No later than 10 Business Days after any change referred to in the preceding sentence, the Borrower shall confirm to the Collateral Agent (and, as and when available, provide any information reasonably
requested by the Collateral Agent) that all filings have been made under the Uniform Commercial Code (or that the Borrower has provided to the Collateral Agent all information required or reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent in order for it
to make such filings), and all other actions have been taken, that are required so that such change will not at any time adversely affect the validity, perfection or priority of any Transaction Lien on any of the Collateral. 
 (b) Each year, at the time annual financial statements with respect to the preceding Fiscal Year are delivered pursuant to
Section 5.01(a), the Borrower will deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer and its chief legal officer (i) setting forth, with respect to each Loan Party, the information required pursuant to Parts A-1 and
A-2 of the Perfection Certificate or confirming that there has been no change in such information since the date of the Perfection Certificate delivered on the Effective Date (or the effective date of such Loan Party’s Security Agreement
Supplement) or the date of the most recent certificate delivered pursuant to this subsection and (ii) certifying that all Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (including fixture filings, as applicable) or other appropriate filings,
recordings or registrations, including all refilings, rerecordings and reregistrations, containing a description of the Collateral have been filed of record in each appropriate office in each jurisdiction identified pursuant to clause (i) above
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certificate (except as noted therein with respect to any continuation statements to be filed within such period). 
 Section 5.04. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve, renew and keep
in full force and effect (i) its legal existence and (ii) the rights, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names material to the conduct of its business, except, in the case of clause (ii),
where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.03 or any
disposition of assets permitted under Section 6.05. 
 Section 5.05. Payment of Obligations. The Borrower will,
and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay its obligations other than Indebtedness, including Tax liabilities, that, if not paid, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect before the same shall become delinquent or in
default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) the applicable Wireline Company has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with
GAAP, and (c) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation. 
 Section 5.06. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance; Casualty and Condemnation. (a) Except as otherwise permitted in Section 6.05, the Borrower will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, keep and maintain all property used in the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear (and damage caused by casualty) excepted, except where the failure to take such actions could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
 (b) The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries
to, maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance in such amounts and against such risks as may be required by law or as the Borrower reasonably and in its good faith business judgment believes are customarily
maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. Fire and extended coverage policies maintained with respect to any Collateral shall be endorsed or otherwise amended
to include a lenders’ loss payable clause in favor of the Collateral Agent and providing for losses thereunder to be payable to the Collateral Agent or its designee as additional loss payee as its interests may appear. Commercial general
liability policies shall be endorsed to name the Collateral Agent as an additional insured. Each such policy referred to in this paragraph (b) also shall provide that it shall not be canceled, modified with respect to endorsements or loss
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at least 10 days’ prior written notice thereof by the insurer to the Collateral Agent (giving the Collateral Agent the right to cure defaults in the payment of premiums) or (y) for any
other reason except upon at least 30 days’ prior written notice thereof by the insurer to the Collateral Agent. The Borrower shall deliver to the Collateral Agent, prior to the cancellation or nonrenewal, or modification of any endorsement or
loss payable provisions of any such policy of insurance, a copy of a renewal or replacement policy (or other evidence of renewal of a policy previously delivered to the Collateral Agent) together with evidence reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent of payment of the premium therefor to the extent then due. 
 (c) The Borrower will furnish to the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders prompt written notice of any Casualty Event. 
 Section 5.07.
Books and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all material dealings and transactions in
relation to its business and activities in accordance with GAAP. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit
and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and, with the opportunity for the Borrower to be present, its independent accountants, all at
such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested; provided that (x), unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower shall not be required by this Agreement to pay for more than one visit per year by the
Administrative Agent and (y) the Lenders shall coordinate any visits through the Administrative Agent. 
 Section 5.08. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where
the failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 
 Section 5.09. Use
of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans will be used only to pay fees and expenses in connection with the Directories Transactions, for Permitted Acquisitions and for working capital and other general corporate
purposes of the Wireline Companies. The proceeds of the Tranche B-1 Term Loans will be used only to prepay the aggregate principal amount of Tranche B Term Loans outstanding following the partial prepayment thereof by the Borrower with the proceeds
from the Debt Offering. The proceeds of any Incremental Loan Facility will be used only as provided in Section 2.01(g)(iii) and in the Incremental Facility Amendment. No part of the proceeds of any Loan or Letters of Credit will be used,
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indirectly, to purchase or carry margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock or for any other purpose, in each case that entails a violation
of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X. Letters of Credit will be issued only to support general corporate obligations of the Wireline Companies. 
 Section 5.10. Additional Subsidiaries. If any additional Subsidiary, other than an Insignificant Subsidiary and, so long as the
Termination Date (as defined in the Directories Equity Exchange Agreement) has not occurred, Directories Holdings, is formed or acquired after the Effective Date, the Borrower will, within ten Business Days after such Subsidiary is formed or
acquired, notify the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent thereof and cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to any Equity Interest in such Subsidiary held by a Loan Party and any Indebtedness of such
Subsidiary owed to a Loan Party. If at any time any Subsidiary that is not then a Loan Party, other than an Insignificant Subsidiary or any Subsidiary listed on Schedule 5.10, (x) is a wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiary and is permitted by
applicable law or regulation (without the need to obtain any Governmental Authorization) to Guarantee the Facility Obligations or (y) Guarantees any Loan Party’s obligations in respect of any New Notes, any Assumed Bonds or any other
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents), the Borrower shall promptly cause (A) such Subsidiary to Guarantee the Facility Obligations pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement (in the case of any Subsidiary described in
clause (y), on terms no less favorable to the Lenders than those applicable under such Guarantee of other Indebtedness) and (B) the other provisions of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary,
whereupon such Subsidiary will become a “Guarantor” and “Lien Grantor” for purposes of the Loan Documents. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, form or acquire any Subsidiary (other than
Insignificant Subsidiaries) after the Effective Date unless either (x) all of the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary shall be directly held by a Loan Party or (y) such Subsidiary shall have Guaranteed the Facility Obligations pursuant to
the Guarantee Agreement and shall have satisfied the other provisions of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement with respect to such Subsidiary. 
 Section 5.11. Further Assurances. (a) Each Loan Party will execute and deliver any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further
actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements, fixture filings and other documents), that may be required under any applicable law, or that the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders may reasonably request, to cause the
Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be and remain satisfied, all at the Borrower’s expense. The Borrower will provide to the Collateral Agent, from time to time upon any reasonable request from the Collateral Agent, evidence reasonably
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the perfection and priority of the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents. 
 (b) If any material assets (other than any real property or improvements thereto or any interest therein) are acquired by any Loan Party after the Effective Date (other than assets constituting Collateral
that become subject to Transaction Liens upon acquisition thereof), the Borrower will notify the Collateral Agent and the Lenders thereof, and, if requested by the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders, will cause such assets to be subjected to a
Transaction Lien securing the Secured Obligations and will take, or cause the relevant Guarantor to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to grant and perfect or record such Transaction Lien, in
each case to the extent contemplated by the Security Documents, including actions described in Section 5.11(a), all at the Borrower’s expense. 
 Section 5.12. Rated Credit Facilities. The Borrower will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Facilities to be continuously rated by S&P and Moody’s. 
 Section 5.13. Windstream Communications. The Borrower will cause, and will cause its Subsidiaries to cause, Windstream
Communications, Inc. not to (a) engage to any material extent in any business or activity, other than (i) the ownership of Wireline Licenses and other assets owned (or similar to those owned), and the business or other activities engaged
in, by it on the Effective Date, (ii) the maintenance of its corporate existence, (iii) the making of Restricted Payments to the extent permitted by Section 6.08, and (iv) activities incidental to (including with respect to
legal, tax and accounting matters), or otherwise required to comply with applicable law in connection with, any of the foregoing activities; and (b) create, incur, assume or permit to exist (i) any Indebtedness of the type described in
clause (a) of the definition thereof, unless owed to a Loan Party, (ii) other Indebtedness unless consistent with past practice, in each case regardless of whether such Indebtedness would otherwise be permitted under Section 6.01, or
(iii) any other liabilities, other than liabilities (but not any Indebtedness) (A) existing (or similar to those existing) on the Effective Date or (B) associated with the activities permitted under subclauses (i) through
(iv) of clause (a) above. 
 ARTICLE 6 
 NEGATIVE COVENANTS 
 Until the Commitments have
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shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that: 
 Section 6.01. Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities. (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:

 (i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents; 
 (ii) Indebtedness of the Loan Parties in respect of the New Notes and the Assumed Valor Bonds; 
 (iii) Indebtedness of AC Holdings and any of its subsidiaries that are Loan Parties in respect of the AC Holdings Bonds; and
Indebtedness of Alltel Georgia in respect of the Alltel Georgia Bonds; 
 (iv) Indebtedness (other than
Indebtedness permitted under clause (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (a)) existing on the Effective Date and set forth in Schedule 6.01; 
 (v) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided that (A) any such Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a
Collateral Support Party to any Collateral Support Party shall be subject to Section 6.04, (B) except to the extent any Regulatory Authorization would be required therefor and has not been obtained, any such Indebtedness of any Loan Party
to any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor shall be subordinated to the Facility Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (C) any such Indebtedness owed to any Loan Party and evidenced by a promissory note
shall be pledged pursuant to clause (b) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”; 
 (vi) Guarantees by the Borrower of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary and by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary (other than Indebtedness permitted solely pursuant to clauses (a)(iii) (except for Guarantees of
the AC Holdings Bonds by any of its subsidiaries that is a Loan Party to the extent required under the AC Holdings Indenture as in effect on the date hereof), (a)(iv), (a)(viii) or (a)(xx) or any combination thereof); provided that
(A) Guarantees by any Collateral Support Party of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Collateral Support Party shall be subject to Section 6.04, (B) Guarantees permitted under this clause (vi) shall be subordinated to
the Secured Obligations of the applicable Subsidiary if and to the same extent and on the same terms as the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is subordinated to the Secured Obligations and (C) no Indebtedness shall be Guaranteed by any

  

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Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary is a Loan Party that has Guaranteed the Secured Obligations pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement; 
 (vii) Indebtedness of any Wireline Company incurred to finance the acquisition, construction, restoration or improvement of
any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations (whether through the direct acquisition of such assets or the acquisition of Equity Interests in a Person holding only such fixed or capital assets) and any Indebtedness assumed by any
Wireline Company in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof; provided that (A) such Indebtedness is incurred (or if assumed, was incurred) prior to or
within 150 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction, restoration or improvement and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vii) shall not exceed $250,000,000 at any time
outstanding; 
 (viii) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Effective Date;
provided that (A) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary and (B) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro
Forma Basis after giving effect to such Indebtedness with the covenants contained in Sections 6.14 and 6.15 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended Fiscal Quarter prior to the time at which such Person becomes a Subsidiary;

 (ix) Indebtedness of the Borrower assumed by operation of law or otherwise as a direct result of the merger
of any Person (a “Merged Person”) with and into the Borrower (with the Borrower being the surviving entity) in a transaction otherwise permitted under this Amended Agreement; provided that (A) such Indebtedness was
Indebtedness of the Merged Person as of the effectiveness of such merger and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such merger and (B) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such
Indebtedness with the covenants contained in Sections 6.14 and 6.15 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended Fiscal Quarter prior to the time of such merger; 
 (x) Indebtedness of any Wireline Company constituting reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit in respect
of workers’ compensation claims or self-insurance obligations; 
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letters of credit or the incurrence of such Indebtedness, such obligations are reimbursed within 30 days following such drawing or incurrence; 
 (xii) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds,
performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations (other than in respect of Indebtedness for borrowed money); 
 (xiii) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07; 
 (xiv) Indebtedness of any Wireline Company arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary
course of business, provided, however, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of its incurrence; 
 (xv) Indebtedness of any Wireline Company arising from agreements providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, or Guarantees or letters of credit, surety bonds or
performance bonds securing any obligations of any Wireline Company pursuant to any such agreements, in any case incurred in connection with the disposition of any business, assets or any Subsidiary (other than Guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by
any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition), so long as the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the gross proceeds actually received by the Wireline
Companies in connection with such disposition; 
 (xvi) any Earn-out Obligation or obligation in respect of any
purchase price adjustment, except to the extent that the contingent consideration relating thereto is not paid within 15 Business Days after the contingency relating thereto is resolved; 
 (xvii) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of any Wireline Company incurred in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are
used to refund, refinance or replace Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary or of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary) that was permitted to be incurred under clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vii),
(viii) or (ix) or this clause (xvii) of this paragraph; 
 (xviii) Permitted Pari Passu
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commitments, loans and other extensions of credit made available under the Incremental Facilities shall not exceed $800,000,000; 
 (xix) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business;

 (xx) other Indebtedness of any Wireline Company in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $150,000,000
at any time outstanding; provided that (A) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom and (B) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the incurrence of such
Indebtedness with the covenants contained in Sections 6.14 and 6.15 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently ended Fiscal Quarter prior to the issuance of such Indebtedness; and 
 (xxi) Permitted Additional Debt; provided that (A) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would
result therefrom and (B) the Borrower is in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness with the covenants contained in Sections 6.14 and 6.15 recomputed as of the last day of the most-recently
ended Fiscal Quarter prior to the issuance of such Indebtedness. 
 (b) If any Indebtedness is incurred pursuant to clause
(viii), (ix), (xx), or (xxi) of paragraph (a) of this Section in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $250,000,000, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to such effect, together
with all relevant financial information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, including reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with such covenants (which calculations shall, if made as of the last day of any Fiscal
Quarter for which the Borrower has not delivered to the Administrative Agent the financial statements and certificate of a Financial Officer required to be delivered by Section 5.01(a) or (b) and Section 5.01(c), respectively, be
accompanied by a reasonably detailed calculation of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA and Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for the relevant period). 
 (c) No Subsidiary will issue any Preferred Stock. 
 Section 6.02.
Liens. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including
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 (b) Permitted Encumbrances; 
 (c) any Lien on any property or asset of any Wireline Company existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.02; provided
that (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of any Wireline Company and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date hereof, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do
not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof (plus the amount of any capitalized interest thereon and any premiums and fees and expenses); 
 (d) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by any Wireline Company or existing on any property or asset of any Person that (i) becomes a Subsidiary after the date
hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or (ii) is a Merged Person prior to the applicable merger (the “Applicable Merger”); provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection
with such acquisition, such Person becoming a Subsidiary or the Applicable Merger, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of any Wireline Company and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those
obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition, the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary or the date of the Applicable Merger, as the case may be, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding
principal amount thereof (plus the amount of any capitalized interest thereon and any premiums and fees and expenses); 
 (e)
Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed, restored or improved by any Wireline Company (including any such assets made the subject of a Capital Lease Obligation); provided that (i) such Liens secure Indebtedness permitted
by clause (vii) of Section 6.01(a), (ii) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 150 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction, restoration or improvement,
(iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iv) such Liens shall not apply to any other property or assets of any Wireline Company;

 (f) Liens in favor of collecting or payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or chargeback with respect to
money or instruments of any Wireline Company on deposit with or in possession of such bank arising in the ordinary course of business; 
 (g) Liens in favor of the Borrower or any Guarantor; 
 (h) Liens on cash or Cash Equivalents securing
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provided that the aggregate principal amount secured by all such Liens shall not at any time exceed $35,000,000; 
 (i) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods, in each case entered
into in the ordinary course of business; 
 (j) Liens securing Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness (except as provided in clause
(e) of the definition thereof); provided that such Liens do not extend to any property or assets other than the property or assets that secure the Indebtedness being refinanced; 
 (k) Liens (i) attaching to advances to a seller of any property to be acquired, (ii) consisting of an agreement to dispose of
property and (iii) on cash earnest money deposits in connection with Investments permitted under Section 6.04; 
 (l)
Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof granted in the ordinary course to secure the financing of insurance premiums with respect thereto; 
 (m) Liens by virtue of statute in favor of any Lender in respect of the Investment of the Loan Parties in non-voting participation certificates of such Lender permitted pursuant to clause (s) of
Section 6.04; 
 (n) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section to the extent that the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the obligations secured thereby (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) does not exceed $100,000,000 at any time outstanding; and 
 (o) Liens on the Collateral securing Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(a)(xviii). 
 Section 6.03. Fundamental Changes. (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge
into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (A) any Person may merge into the Borrower in a transaction
in which the Borrower is the surviving corporation, (B) any Person may merge into any Subsidiary in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary and (if any party to such merger is a Guarantor) is (or upon consummation of such
merger becomes in accordance with the terms of this Agreement) a Guarantor and (C) any Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower
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disadvantageous to the Lenders; provided that any such merger involving a Person that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such merger shall not be permitted unless also
permitted by Section 6.04. 
 (b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage to any
material extent in any business other than Permitted Businesses. 
 Section 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances,
Guarantees and Acquisitions. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly-owned Subsidiary prior to such merger) any
Equity Interest in or evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, guarantee any obligations of, or make or permit
to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) all or substantially all of the assets of, or assets constituting a division, unit or line of
business of, any other Person (each of the foregoing, an “Investment”), except: 
 (a) Investments in
connection with the Transactions; 
 (b) Cash Equivalents; 
 (c) Investments existing on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 6.04; 
 (d) Investments by the Borrower and its subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their respective subsidiaries; provided that (i) any
such Equity Interest held by a Loan Party shall be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement as required to satisfy clause (b) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”, and (ii) the aggregate amount of such
Investments by Collateral Support Parties in Equity Interests in Subsidiaries that are not Collateral Support Parties made after the Effective Date in reliance on this clause (d) shall not exceed (together with (x) any loans and advances
by Collateral Support Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Collateral Support Parties made in reliance on clause (e) below and (y) any Guarantees by Collateral Support Parties of Indebtedness or other obligations of Subsidiaries that are
not Collateral Support Parties made in reliance on clause (f) below) $75,000,000 (in each case determined at the time made and without regard to any subsequent write-downs or write-offs); 
 (e) loans or advances made by the Borrower to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary;
provided that the amount of such loans and advances made in reliance on this clause (e) after the Effective Date by Collateral Support Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Collateral Support Parties shall be subject to the limitation set
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 (f)(x) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01 and
(y) guarantees provided in the ordinary course of business of obligations of any Wireline Company (other than Indebtedness) under operating leases and similar contracts; provided that (i) any Person providing any such Guarantee of
Indebtedness shall have complied with Section 5.10 with respect thereto, and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness and other obligations of Subsidiaries that are not Collateral Support Parties that is Guaranteed by Collateral
Support Parties shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (ii) of the proviso in clause (d) above; 
 (g)
any Investment acquired by any Wireline Company (i) in exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by such Wireline Company in connection with or as a result of a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the
issuer of such other Investment or accounts receivable or (ii) as a result of a foreclosure by any Wireline Company with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default; 

(h) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights
or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in each case in the ordinary course of business; 
 (i) Investments that
constitute Permitted Asset Exchanges and Permitted Acquisitions (including any cash earnest money deposits required in connection with any Permitted Acquisition); 
 (j) loans or advances to employees of any Wireline Company not exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding at any time; 
 (k) commission, payroll, travel and similar advances to officers and employees to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses of the Wireline
Companies in accordance with GAAP; 
 (l) Investments consisting of the licensing or contribution of intellectual property
pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons; 
 (m) Investments in the form of Swap Agreements permitted by
Section 6.07; 
 (n) Investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or consolidates or
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 (o) Investments resulting from pledges or deposits described in clause (b) or
(c) of the definition of “Permitted Encumbrance”; 
 (p) Investments received in connection with the disposition
of any asset permitted by Section 6.05; 
 (q) advances to customers or suppliers in the ordinary course of business that
are, in conformity with GAAP, recorded as accounts receivable, prepaid expenses or deposits on the balance sheet of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and endorsements for collection or deposit arising in the ordinary course of business;

 (r) Investments arising from any transaction permitted by Section 6.08; 
 (s) Investments existing on the date hereof in non-voting participation certificates of any Lender and additional Investments made after the
Closing Date in any such non-voting participation certificates (including accruals on such certificates made by such Lender in accordance with its bylaws and capital plan); and 
 (t) so long as no Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (a), (b), (i) or (j) of Article 7 has occurred and is
continuing or would result therefrom, additional Investments in any Person (provided that any such Person is either (i) not an Affiliate of the Borrower or (ii) is an Affiliate of the Borrower (A) solely because the Borrower,
directly or indirectly, owns Equity Interests in, or controls, such Person or (B) engaged in bona fide business operations and is an Affiliate solely because it is under common control with the Borrower) having an aggregate Fair Market Value
(measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (t) since the Effective Date and then outstanding not to
exceed the sum (calculated as of the date of such Investment was made after giving effect to all other applications of Available Distributable Cash or Available Equity Proceeds on such date) of (i) Available Distributable Cash plus
(ii) Available Equity Proceeds plus (iii) the greater of (x) $150,000,000 and (y) 2% of Total Assets plus (iv) the aggregate amount of cash equal to the net reduction in Investments made pursuant to this clause
(t) in any Person since the Effective Date resulting from repayments of loans or advances, or other transfers of assets, in each case to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or from the net proceeds received in cash, from the sale of any such
Investment (except, in each case, to the extent any such payment or proceeds are included in the calculation of Consolidated Adjusted Net Income); provided that any Investment made pursuant to this clause (t) in any Person that is not a
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have been made pursuant to clause (d), (e) or (f)(ii), as applicable, and not pursuant to this clause (t). 
 Section 6.05. Asset Sales. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of
transactions) any property, including any Equity Interest owned by it (in each case, whether now owned or hereafter acquired), nor will any Subsidiary issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than issuing directors’
qualifying shares and other than issuing Equity Interests to the Borrower or another Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04(d)), except: 
 (a) the transfer to Alltel or any of its subsidiaries of any “AT Co. Assets” (as defined in the Distribution Agreement) in connection with the Preliminary Restructuring; 
 (b) sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions of (i) inventory, (ii) obsolete, worn-out, used, no longer useful or surplus
property or equipment and (iii) Cash Equivalents, in the case of each of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), in the ordinary course of business; 
 (c) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions (including issuance of Equity Interests) to a Wireline Company; provided that any such sales, transfers or dispositions involving a Subsidiary
that is not a Collateral Support Party shall comply with Section 6.09; 
 (d) leases or subleases of property, and licenses
or sublicenses of intellectual property, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business and to the extent that any of the foregoing does not materially interfere with the business of any Wireline Company; 
 (e) dispositions or write-downs of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary
course of business or bankruptcy or similar proceedings; 
 (f) any Restricted Payment permitted under Section 6.08;

 (g) Permitted Asset Exchanges; 
 (h) sales of assets in connection with any Sale and Leaseback Transaction permitted under Section 6.06; 
 (i) dispositions of property constituting Investments permitted under Section 6.04(g); 
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 (k) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of property to the extent that such
property consists of an Investment permitted by Section 6.04(p); 
 (l) dispositions resulting from any casualty or other
insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; 
 (m) the exchange of Directories Notes for Term Loans pursuant to the Directories Debt Exchange, if any, and the sale for cash of any such Term Loans by the Borrower to a Person other than an affiliate of
the Borrower; provided that 
 (i) the final terms and conditions of each aspect of the Directories
Transactions, including, without limitation, all tax aspects thereof, shall be 1) substantially as described in the Information Memorandum and otherwise consistent in all material respects with the description thereof received by the Lenders in
writing prior to the date hereof and 2) otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; 
 (ii)
the Administrative Agent shall have received copies of the Directories Transaction Documents, certified by a Financial Officer as complete and correct, and shall be reasonably satisfied with the terms and conditions thereof; 
 (iii) the Directories Debt Exchange shall have been consummated in accordance with the terms of the applicable Directories
Transaction Documents; and 
 (iv) immediately after giving effect (on a Pro Forma Basis in the case of clause
(B)) to the Directories Debt Exchange, (A) the representation and warranty set forth in Section 3.03 shall be true and correct in all respects and (B) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 (n) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of assets (except Equity Interests in a Subsidiary unless all Equity
Interests in such Subsidiary are sold) that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section; provided that the aggregate Fair Market Value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance on this clause
(n) shall not at any time exceed the greater of $750,000,000 and 10% of Total Assets (with the Fair Market Value of each item of non-cash consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to any subsequent changes in
value); 
 provided that any sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted by clauses (g), (h), (k) or (n) of this
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and (y) in the case of sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted by clauses (h) or (n) of this Section shall be made for at least 75% Cash Consideration.

 Section 6.06. Sale and Leaseback Transactions. Except for the transactions identified on Schedule 6.06, the
Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby it shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred (any such transaction, a “Sale and Leaseback
Transaction”), unless: 
 (a) the applicable Wireline Company could have (a) incurred Indebtedness in an amount
equal to the Attributable Debt relating to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction pursuant to Section 6.01 and (b) incurred a Lien to secure such Indebtedness pursuant to Section 6.02 in which case such Indebtedness and Liens shall be
deemed to have been so incurred; 
 (b) the gross cash proceeds of that Sale and Leaseback Transaction are at least equal to the
Fair Market Value of the property that is the subject of that Sale and Leaseback Transaction; and 
 (c) the transfer of assets
in that Sale and Leaseback Transaction is permitted by, and the Borrower applies the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, Section 2.10. 
 Section 6.07. Swap Agreements. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any Swap Agreement, except (a) Swap Agreements entered into to hedge or
mitigate risks to which any Wireline Company has actual exposure in the conduct of its business or the management of its liabilities (other than those in respect of Equity Interests or Restricted Indebtedness of a Wireline Company), and
(b) Swap Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or
Investment of any Wireline Company. 
 Section 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Debt. (a) The
Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except: 
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 (ii) the Borrower may declare and pay dividends with respect to its Equity
Interests payable solely in additional shares of its common stock; 
 (iii) Subsidiaries may declare and pay
dividends ratably with respect to their Equity Interests; 
 (iv) the repurchase, redemption or other
acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of any Wireline Company held by any current or former employee, consultant or director of any Wireline Company pursuant to the terms of any employee equity subscription agreement, stock
option agreement or similar agreement; provided that the aggregate price paid for all such repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Equity Interests in any fiscal year will not exceed the sum of: 
 (A) $20,000,000, with unused amounts pursuant to this subclause (A) being carried over to succeeding fiscal years;
plus  
 (B) the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Borrower since the Effective Date as a
contribution to its common equity capital or from the issue or sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Borrower to any current or former employee, consultant or director of any Wireline Company; provided that the
amount of any such net cash proceeds that are used to permit a repurchase, redemption or other acquisition under this subclause (B) will be excluded from clause (a) of the definition of “Available Equity Proceeds”; 
 (v) the making of any payment in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of a contribution to the common equity of the
Borrower or a substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Borrower) of, Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Borrower; provided that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that are utilized for any
such payment will be excluded for the purposes of calculating Available Equity Proceeds; 
 (vi) so long as no
Dividend Suspension Period or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, the declaration and payment of dividends or distributions to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock of the Borrower issued or
incurred in accordance with this Agreement; 
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by this Agreement to the extent that such Equity Interests represent all or a portion of the exercise price thereof; 
 (viii) so long as no Dividend Suspension Period, or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result
therefrom, the repurchase of Equity Interests of the Borrower constituting fractional shares in an aggregate amount since the Effective Date not to exceed $100,000; 
 (ix) the payment of dividends by the Borrower on its common stock in an amount not to exceed $237,500,000 in the aggregate
for the first two quarterly dividend payments made after the Effective Date; 
 (x) the payment of the Special
Stub Dividend; 
 (xi) so long as no Dividend Suspension Period or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may repurchase, acquire or redeem, and may declare and pay dividends on, its common stock in an aggregate amount which does not exceed the sum (calculated as of the date of such dividend payment
after giving effect to all other applications of Available Distributable Cash or Available Equity Proceeds on such date) of (A) Available Distributable Cash plus (B) Available Equity Proceeds; 
 (xii) the redemption of the Borrower’s common stock in connection with the Directories Equity Exchange; provided
that 
 (A) the final terms and conditions of each aspect of the Directories Transactions, including, without
limitation, all tax aspects thereof, shall be 1) substantially as described in the Information Memorandum and otherwise consistent in all material respects with the description thereof received by the Lenders in writing prior to the date hereof and
2) otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; 
 (B) the Administrative Agent shall have
received copies of the Directories Transaction Documents, certified by a Financial Officer as complete and correct, and shall be reasonably satisfied with the terms and conditions thereof; 
 (C) the Directories Equity Exchange shall have been consummated in accordance with the terms of the applicable Directories
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 (D) immediately after giving effect (on a Pro Forma Basis in the case of
clause (B)) to the Directories Equity Exchange, (A) the representation and warranty set forth in Section 3.03 shall be true and correct in all respects and (B) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

 (xiii) other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not exceeding $50,000,000; and 
 (xiv) the Borrower may pay any dividend within 90 days after the date of declaration thereof, if the Borrower would have
been permitted to make such payment under this Section 6.08(a) on the date of such declaration. 
 (b) The Borrower will
not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any
Restricted Indebtedness, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, defeasance or termination of any such Indebtedness,
or any payment (including, without limitation, any payment under a Swap Agreement) that has a substantially similar effect to any of the foregoing, except: 
 (i) the payment of regularly scheduled payments of interest and fees and the payment of expenses and, in the case of the
Alltel Georgia Bonds only, mandatory payments of principal in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 annually, in each case as and when due in respect of any Restricted Indebtedness; 
 (ii) payments in respect of Restricted Indebtedness, provided that (A) no Dividend Suspension Period or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such payment or would result therefrom and (B) the aggregate amount of such payments does not exceed the sum (calculated as of the date of such payment after giving effect to all other
applications of Available Distributable Cash or Available Equity Proceeds on such date) of (A) Available Distributable Cash plus (B) Available Equity Proceeds; 
 (iii) refinancings of Restricted Indebtedness to the extent not prohibited by Section 6.01; and 
 (iv) the payment of regularly scheduled payments of principal on the 2013 Notes and the Valor Bonds, in each case pursuant
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 Section 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates. Except as set forth on Schedule
6.09, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other
transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (a) in the ordinary course of business at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to such Wireline Company than could reasonably be expected to be obtained in an arm’s-length
transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Wireline Companies, (b) transactions between or among the Collateral Support Parties or any Person that will become a Collateral Support Party in connection therewith, except to the
extent that any payments thereunder made by any Wireline Company to such Person are substantially concurrently paid by such Person to any other Affiliate of any Wireline Company and are not otherwise permitted under this Section 6.09,
(c) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.08, (d) mergers or consolidations between Subsidiaries or between the Borrower and any Subsidiary permitted under Section 6.03, and (e) intercompany Investments, loans,
advances and Guarantees permitted under Section 6.04. 
 Section 6.10. Restrictive Agreements. The Borrower
will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any consensual agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of any
Wireline Company to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its property or assets in favor of the Secured Parties (or an agent or trustee on their behalf) or to transfer any of its properties or assets to any other Wireline Company,
or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any of its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to any other Wireline Company or to Guarantee Indebtedness of any other Wireline
Company; provided that: 
 (i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by
law or regulation or by any Loan Document or other Transaction Document, 
 (ii) the foregoing shall not apply
to restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), 
 (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of
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 (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or
conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, 
 (v) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions imposed by customary provisions in leases and other
contracts restricting the assignment thereof, 
 (vi) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or
conditions applicable to any Person or the property or assets of a Person acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time of such acquisition and not incurred in connection with or in contemplation of such acquisition, which
restriction or condition is not applicable to any Person or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions,
supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings thereof, provided that the restrictions and conditions in any such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, extensions, supplements, refundings, replacement or refinancings are
no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those in effect on the date of the acquisition; 
 (vii) the
foregoing restrictions shall not apply to restrictions or conditions (A) on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers or required by insurance, surety or bonding companies, in each case, under contracts entered into in the
ordinary course of business, (B) existing under, by reason of or with respect to provisions with respect to the disposition or distribution of assets or property, in each case contained in joint venture agreements, limited liability company
agreements and other similar agreements and which the Borrower’s board of directors determines will not adversely affect the Borrower’s ability to make payments of principal or interest payments on the Loans, or (C) existing under, by
reason of or with respect to Indebtedness incurred to refinance any Indebtedness, in each case as permitted under Section 6.01; provided that the restrictions contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness incurred to refinance
Indebtedness are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being refinanced; and 
 (viii) the foregoing shall not apply to any Directories Note. 
 Section 6.11.
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Directories Transaction Document, (b) its certificate of incorporation, by-laws or other organizational documents or (c) any instruments, agreements or other documents in respect of
Permitted Additional Debt, in each case in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders. 
 Section 6.12. Change in Fiscal
Year. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, change its fiscal year or change its method of determining fiscal quarters. 
 Section 6.13. Capital Expenditures. (a) The Borrower will not permit the aggregate amount of Capital Expenditures (excluding any Capital Expenditures to the extent funded with Available
Equity Proceeds or Reinvestment Funds) made in any Fiscal Year referred to below to exceed the sum of: 
 (i)
$450,000,000; plus 
 (ii) for any Fiscal Year in which one or more Permitted Acquisitions is consummated
and for each Fiscal Year thereafter, an amount equal to the amount of 20% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of each Person or business acquired in a Permitted Acquisition for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters immediately preceding each
such Permitted Acquisition for which financial statements are available; provided that for purposes of this clause (ii) no Permitted Asset Exchange shall be deemed to be a Permitted Acquisition; plus  
 (iii) the amount (if any) by which (x) the amount of Capital Expenditures for the immediately preceding Fiscal Year
specified pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above (without including any carryover amount from any prior Fiscal Year) exceeded (y) the amount of Capital Expenditures actually made during such immediately preceding Fiscal Year.

 (b) If any personal property acquired or constructed by any Loan Party after the date hereof is not subject to a Transaction
Lien, the Borrower will, to the extent otherwise required hereunder or under the Security Agreement, cause such Security Documents to be executed and delivered as may be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent may request, to subject such property
to a Transaction Lien. 
 Section 6.14. Interest Coverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Interest Coverage
Ratio to be less than 2.75 to 1.0 on the last day of any Fiscal Quarter. 
 Section 6.15. Leverage Ratio. The
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 ARTICLE 7 
 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 
 If any of the
following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur: 
 (a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any
Loan or any LC Reimbursement Obligation when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise; 
 (b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause
(a) of this Article) payable under any Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five Business Days; 
 (c) the Borrower shall fail to pay when and as required to be paid herein, any amount required to be prepaid and/or cash collateralized
pursuant to Section 2.10(b); 
 (d) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Wireline
Company in or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or
any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made; 
 (e) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02(a), 5.04 (with respect to the Borrower’s existence) or 5.09 or in Article 6;

 (f) any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document
(other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (e) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after receipt of notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which notice will be
given at the request of any Lender); 
 (g) any Wireline Company shall fail to make any payment of principal, interest or
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 (h) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due
prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with all applicable grace periods having expired and all applicable notices having been given) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their
behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity (except to the extent the holders of the Valor Bonds may require the repurchase
thereof as a result of the “Change of Control” of Valor resulting from the Merger); provided that this clause (h) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer or other
disposition of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness; 
 (i) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an
involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than an Insignificant Subsidiary) or their respective debts, or of a substantial part of their
respective assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for
the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than an Insignificant Subsidiary) or for a substantial part of their respective assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving
or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered; 
 (j) the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than an Insignificant
Subsidiary) shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in
effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (i) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver,
trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than an Insignificant Subsidiary) or for a substantial part of their respective assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material
allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; 
 (k) the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than an Insignificant Subsidiary) shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due; 
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insurer has acknowledged liability therefor) shall be rendered against any Wireline Company or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 60 consecutive days
during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of any Wireline Company to enforce any such judgment; 
 (m) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; 
 (n) a Change in Control shall occur; 
 (o) any Regulatory Authorization shall expire or terminate or be revoked or otherwise lost, or the Borrower shall fail to be in compliance
with Section 10.2 of the Merger Agreement, which in any case could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; 
 (p) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, a valid and, except to the extent otherwise permitted by the Security Agreement, perfected Lien on any
Collateral, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except (i) Collateral having a Fair Market Value not exceeding $10,000,000 in the aggregate, (ii) as a result of a sale or other disposition of the applicable
Collateral in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents, (iii) as a result of such Loan Party’s being released from its obligations under and pursuant to the Security Agreement or (iv) as a result of the Collateral Agent’s
failure to maintain possession of any stock certificates, promissory notes or other documents delivered to it under the Security Agreement; or 
 (q)(i) any Guarantor’s Facility Guarantee shall at any time fail to constitute a valid and binding agreement of such Guarantor (other than in accordance with its terms) or any Wireline Company shall
so assert in writing or (ii) at any time during which Permitted Pari Passu Indebtedness is outstanding, the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement shall fail to constitute a valid and binding agreement of any Loan Party (other than in accordance
with its terms) or any Wireline Company shall so assert in writing; or 
 (r) the Guarantees of the Facility Obligations by any
Loan Party, other than an Insignificant Subsidiary, pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement shall cease to be in full force and effect (in each case, other than in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents); 
 then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (i) or (j) of this Article), and at any time
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continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or
different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared
to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued
hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause
(i) or (j) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall
automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower. 
 ARTICLE 8 
 THE AGENTS 
 Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks hereby irrevocably appoints each of the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent as its agent
and authorizes (i) the Collateral Agent to sign and deliver the Security Documents and (ii) each such Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to such Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents,
together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. 
 Any bank serving as an Agent hereunder shall have
the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of
business with any Wireline Company or Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent. 
 No Agent shall have any duties or
obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) no Agent shall be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is
continuing, (b) no Agent shall have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby that such Agent is required to exercise in writing as
directed by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02), and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, no Agent shall
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liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any Wireline Company that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as an Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
No Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in
Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. No Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to such Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and no
Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document
delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth any Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or
genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article 4 or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be
delivered to the Administrative Agent. 
 Each Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for
relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it
orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for any Wireline Company), independent accountants and
other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts. 
 Any Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Any Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all
its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of any Agent and any such sub-agent, and
shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the Facilities as well as activities as an Agent. 
 Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, as provided in this paragraph, each of the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent may resign at any time by
notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the consent of the Borrower (which may not be unreasonably withheld), to appoint a successor. If

  

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no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the
retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, appoint a successor Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon
the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent,
and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise
agreed in writing between the Borrower and such successor. After any Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub agents and their
respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as an Agent. 
 Each Lender and Issuing Bank acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its
own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and Issuing Bank also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such
documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or related agreement or any document furnished
hereunder or thereunder. 
 ARTICLE 9 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 Section 9.01. Notices. (a) Except
in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or
overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows: 
 (i) if to
the Borrower, to it at 4001 Rodney Parham Road, Mail Stop 1170-B1-F3-24A, Little Rock, Arkansas 72212-2442, Attention of Treasurer (Telecopy No. 501-748-6392); 
  

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 (ii) if to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral
Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 1111 Fannin, 10th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention of Clarice West (Telecopy No.: 713-750-2358) (email: clarice.a.west@jpmchase.com), with copies to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 270 Park Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10017, Attention of Christophe Vohmann
(Telecopy No. 212-270-5127) (email: christophe.vohmann@jpmorgan.com), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 270 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, New York 10017, Attention of Padmini Persaud (Telecopy No. 212-270-4164) (email:
padmini.persaud@jpmorgan.com); 
 (iii) if to an Issuing Bank, to it at the address provided to the Borrower for
notices to such Issuing Bank in such capacity; and 
 (iv) if to any Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy
number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire. 
 (b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the Issuing
Bank hereunder may also be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including e-mail and Internet or intranet website) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to
notices to any Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to Article 2 if such Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of
such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. 
 (c) Any party hereto may change its address or
telecopy number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been
given on the date of receipt. 
 Section 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by any Lender Party
in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right
or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Lender Parties under the Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they
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therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific
instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether any Lender Party may have
had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time. No notice or demand on the Borrower in any case shall entitle the Borrower to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances. 
 (b) Except as provided in Section 2.01(g) with respect to any Incremental Facility Amendment, no Loan Document or any provision hereof
may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of any Security Document, the
Collateral Agent) with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce or forgive the principal amount of
any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon (other than any waiver of default interest payable pursuant to Section 2.12(c)), or reduce or forgive any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender
Party directly affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled date of repayment of the principal amount of any Loan pursuant to Section 2.08 or 2.09 or the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment or the required date of reimbursement of
any LC Disbursement, or any interest (other than any waiver of default interest) or any fees payable hereunder, or reduce (other than any waiver of default interest) the amount of, waive or excuse any such repayment, or postpone the scheduled date
of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, (iv) change the rights of the Tranche B-1 Lenders to decline mandatory prepayments as provided in Section 2.10, without the written
consent of Lenders holding a majority of the outstanding Tranche B-1 Term Loans, (v) change Section 2.17(b) or (c), the penultimate sentence of Section 2.10(i), or the last sentence of Section 2.07(c), in each case in a manner
that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments or reduction of Commitments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby (it being understood that an amendment shall not be deemed to change such
provisions in such manner to the extent it effects an increase in the commitment of any Lender(s) or in the aggregate amount of the commitments of any class), (vi) change any of the provisions of this Section or reduce the percentage set forth
in the definition of “Required Lenders” (or the definition of “Required Revolving Lenders”) or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders (or Lenders of any Class) required to waive,
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each Lender, or each Lender of such Class, as the case may be (it being understood that an amendment shall not be deemed to change such provisions to the extent it effects an increase in the
commitment of any Lender(s) or in the aggregate amount of the commitments of any class), (vii) release any material Guarantor from its Facility Guarantee (except as expressly provided in the Guarantee Agreement), or limit its liability in
respect of its Facility Guarantee, without the written consent of each Lender, (viii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral from the Transaction Liens, without the written consent of each Lender, (ix) waive any condition set
forth in Section 4.03 (including by amending or waiving any provision of Article 3, 5, 6 or 7 if the effect of such amendment or waiver would be to waive any such condition) for purposes of any Revolving Borrowing without the written consent of
the Required Revolving Lenders, (x) change any provision of any Loan Document in a manner that by its terms adversely affects the rights in respect of payments due to Lenders holding Loans of any Class differently than those holding Loans of
any other Class, without the written consent of Lenders holding a majority in interest of the outstanding Loans and unused Commitments of each adversely affected Class, (xi) modify the protections afforded to an SPV pursuant to the provisions
of Section 9.04(e) without the prior written consent of such SPV, (xii) amend the definition of “Interest Period” so as to permit any Interest Period of greater than 6 months without the consent of all Lenders participating in
the applicable Borrowing, without the written consent of each such Lender or (xiii) change the rights of the Tranche B-2 Lenders to decline mandatory prepayments as provided in Section 2.10, without the written consent of Lenders holding a
majority of the outstanding Tranche B-2 Term Loans; provided further that (A) no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Issuing Bank under the
Loan Documents without the prior written consent of such Agent or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, (B) any waiver, amendment or modification of this Agreement that by its terms affects the rights or duties under this Agreement of one
Class of Lenders (but not of any other Class of Lenders) may be effected by an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the requisite percentage in interest of the affected Class of Lenders that would be required to
consent thereto under this Section if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders hereunder at the time and (C) any waiver, amendment or modification of the Commitment Letter or either Fee Letter may be effected by an agreement or
agreements in writing entered into only by the parties thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (as provided in the
definitions of “Required Lenders” and “Required Revolving Lenders”), except that the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without its consent. 
  

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 (c) In connection with any proposed amendment, modification, waiver or termination (a
“Proposed Change”) requiring the consent of all Lenders or all affected Lenders, if the consent of the Required Lenders (and/or, to the extent so required, the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders) to such Proposed Change is
obtained, but the consent to such Proposed Change of other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained (any such Lender whose consent is not obtained as described in paragraph (b) of this Section being referred to as a
“Non-Consenting Lender”), then, so long as the Lender that is acting as Administrative Agent is not a Non-Consenting Lender, the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Non-Consenting Lender and the
Administrative Agent, require each of the Non-Consenting Lenders to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this
Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative
Agent (and, if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing Bank), which consent(s) shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, (ii) each Non-Consenting Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding
principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the
Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (iii) the Borrower or such assignee shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the processing and recordation fee specified in Section 9.04(b) and (iv) if the Proposed Change is a decrease
in the Applicable Rate with respect to Tranche B-1 Term Loans, each Tranche B-1 Lender shall have received the Optional Prepayment Premium on such Tranche B-1 Lender’s Tranche B-1 Term Loans, without regard to whether such Tranche B-1
Lender’s Tranche B-1 Term Loans are being assigned pursuant to this Section 9.02(c). 
 (d) Further, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Section, if within thirty (30) days following the Amendment Effective Date, (i) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall have jointly identified an obvious error or any error or omission of
a technical or immaterial nature, in each case, in any provision of the Loan Documents or (ii) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall have jointly determined that any provision of the Loan Documents must be amended or modified to
permit the consummation of the Directories Transaction and that such amendment or modification would not materially impair the rights of any Lender Party under the Loan Documents, then in each case the Administrative Agent (acting in its sole
discretion) and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend such provision and such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to any Loan Document if the same is not objected to in writing by the Required
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 Section 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrower shall
pay (i) all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lead Arrangers and their Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of Davis Polk & Wardwell and
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, special New York and regulatory counsel, respectively, for the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lead Arrangers, in connection with the syndication of the Facilities and the preparation of the
Loan Documents (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lead Arrangers and their
Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lead Arrangers in connection with the administration of the Loan Documents or any amendments,
modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (iii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing Banks in connection with the issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit by it or any demand for payment thereunder and (iv) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Lender Party, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Lender
Party, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such
out-of pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit. 
 (b) The Borrower shall indemnify each of the Lender Parties, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”), against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and
all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, but excluding Taxes, which are governed by Section 2.16, incurred by or asserted against any
Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties to the Loan Documents of their
respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by an Issuing Bank to honor a
demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or
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investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that
such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted
from (A) the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, (B) any claims of such Indemnitee against any other Indemnitee and/or (C) the breach by such Indemnitee of its obligations hereunder or under any other
Loan Document. 
 (c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to any Agent or any
Issuing Bank under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to such Agent or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed
expense or indemnity payment is sought based on the aggregate amount of (x) in the case of a payment owed to an Agent, the Revolving Commitments and outstanding Term Loans and (y) in the case of a payment owed to an Issuing Bank, the
Revolving Commitments) of such unpaid amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the applicable Agent or Issuing
Bank in its capacity as such. 
 (d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby
waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or any
agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. 
 (e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after written demand therefor. 
 Section 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any
Affiliate of an Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted
assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement,
expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants
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contemplated hereby, the other Agents and the Related Parties of each of the Agents, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this
Agreement. 
 (b)(i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more
assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent of: 
 (A) the Borrower, provided that (x) no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender,
an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee and (y) such consent may not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; 
 (B) the Administrative Agent, provided that, in the case of an assignment of any Term Loan or Term Commitment,
(x) no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for such assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund and (y) such consent may not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; and 
 (C) the Issuing Bank, provided that no consent of the Issuing Bank shall be required for an assignment of all or any
portion of a Term Loan or Term Commitment. 
 (ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional
conditions: 
 (A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund
or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment
and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 or, in the case of a Term Loan, $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent
provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; 
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clause shall not be construed to prohibit the assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of Commitments or Loans;

 (C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and
Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; provided that assignments made pursuant to Section 2.18(b) shall not require the signature of the assigning Lender to become effective; 
 (D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire in
which the assignee designates one or more Credit Contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower, the other Loan Parties and their Related Parties or their respective
subsidiaries) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state securities laws; and 
 (E) in the case of an assignment of Loans to the Borrower, the Borrower shall be deemed to be excluded from the definition
of “Lender” for the purposes of Section 9.02. 
 For the purposes of this Section 9.04(b), the term
“Approved Fund” and “CLO” has the following meaning: 
 “Approved Fund” means
(a) a CLO and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed by the same investment
advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor. 
 “CLO” means an entity (whether a
corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and is administered or managed by a Lender or an Affiliate of
such Lender. 
 (iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) of this Section,
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under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement
(and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections
2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03 and to any fees payable hereunder that have accrued for such Lender’s account but have not yet been paid). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with
this Section 9.04 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section. 
 (iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a
copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the
terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). Absent manifest error, the entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name
is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Banks and any
Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. 
 (v) Upon its receipt of a
duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee
referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained
therein in the Register; provided that if either the assigning Lender or the assignee shall have failed to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(d) or (e), 2.05(b), 2.17(d) or 9.03(c), the Administrative
Agent shall have no obligation to accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information therein in the Register unless and until such payment shall have been made in full, together with all accrued interest thereon. No assignment shall be
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 (vi) The words “execution”, “signed”,
“signature” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or
enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National
Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. 
 (c)(i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in
all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall
remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower and the other Lenders Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such
Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the
Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any
amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the
benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.17(c) as though it were a Lender. 
 (ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.14 or 2.16 than the applicable
Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that is a Foreign
Recipient shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16 unless the Participant complies with Section 2.16(e). 
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portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including without limitation any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this
Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or
assignee for such Lender as a party hereto. 
 (e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a
“Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle organized and administered by such Granting Lender (an “SPV”), identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the option to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, provided that (i) nothing
herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPV to make any Loan, (ii) if an SPV elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to
the terms hereof and (iii) the SPV shall provide the documentation described in Section 2.16(e) and shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.14 or 2.16 than the Granting Lender would be entitled to receive
thereunder. The making of a Loan by an SPV hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no SPV shall be liable for any
indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the Granting Lender). In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this
Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPV, such party will not institute against, or join any other person in instituting
against, such SPV any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State thereof; provided that each Lender designating any SPV hereby agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless each other party hereto for any loss, cost, damage or expense arising out of its inability to institute such a proceeding against such SPV during such period of forbearance. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Section 9.04, any SPV may (i) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, assign all or a portion of its interests in any Loans to
the Granting Lender or to any financial institutions (consented to by the Borrower and Administrative Agent) providing liquidity or credit support to or for the account of such SPV to support the funding or maintenance of Loans and
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paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPV. 
 Section 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in
connection with or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of
Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that any Lender Party may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is
extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is
outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03 and Article 8 shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. 
 Section 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties
hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees
payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.
Except as provided in Section 4.02, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear
the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this
Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. 
 Section 9.07.
Severability. Any provision of any Loan Document held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without
affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction. 
  

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 Section 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, each Lender, any Issuing Bank and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized (but only with the consent of the Required Lenders, unless an Event of Default of the type described in paragraph (a), (b), (i) or
(j) of Article 7 shall have occurred and be continuing or the maturity of the Loans shall have been accelerated pursuant to Article 7) at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all
deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, but excluding (i) trust accounts for the benefit of third parties that have been certified as such by a Financial Officer to the Administrative Agent and the Lender or Issuing
Bank that is the depositary bank and (ii) unless the maturity of the Loans shall have been accelerated pursuant to Article 7, up to an aggregate amount of $60,000,000 held in payroll accounts of the Loan Parties that have been certified as such
by a Financial Officer to the Administrative Agent and the Lender or Issuing Bank that is the depositary bank) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender, such Issuing Bank or such Affiliate to or for the credit or the
account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender or Issuing Bank, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or Issuing Bank shall have made any demand
under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or Issuing Bank different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such obligation. The rights of each Lender
and Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender or Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates may have. 
 Section 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York. 
 (b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court
from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect
of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
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bring any action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document against any Loan Party or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction. 
 (c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection
which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court. 
 (d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in any Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this
Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. 
 Section 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY
HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREBY
(WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF
LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION. 

Section 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference
only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement. 
 Section 9.12. Confidentiality. (a) Each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except
that Information may be disclosed (i) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will
be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (ii) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority, (iii) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or
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any other party to this Agreement, (v) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or
the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (vi) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (A) any assignee or pledgee under Section 9.04(d) of or Participant in, or any
prospective assignee or pledgee under Section 9.04(d) of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (B) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction
relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (vii) with the consent of the Borrower or (viii) to the extent such Information (A) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (B) becomes
available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Borrower (other than a source actually known by such disclosing Person to be bound by confidentiality provisions
comparable to those set forth in this Section 9.12). For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower relating to the Borrower or its business, other than any such information
that is available to any Agent, Issuing Bank or Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower (other than from a source actually known by such party to be bound by confidentiality obligations). Any Person required to
maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as
such Person would accord to its own confidential information. 
 (b) EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN
SECTION 9.12(a) FURNISHED TO IT PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY INCLUDE MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LOAN PARTIES AND THEIR RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES, AND CONFIRMS THAT IT HAS DEVELOPED COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES
REGARDING THE USE OF MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THAT IT WILL HANDLE SUCH MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS. 
 (c) ALL INFORMATION, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS AND AMENDMENTS, FURNISHED BY THE BORROWER OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT TO, OR IN
THE COURSE OF ADMINISTERING, THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE SYNDICATE-LEVEL INFORMATION, WHICH MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE BORROWER, THE OTHER LOAN PARTIES AND THEIR RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES. ACCORDINGLY, EACH
LENDER REPRESENTS TO THE BORROWER AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT THAT IT HAS IDENTIFIED IN ITS

  

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ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE A CREDIT CONTACT WHO MAY RECEIVE INFORMATION THAT MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW,
INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS. 
 Section 9.13. USA PATRIOT ACT. Each Lender that is subject to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”) hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the Act, it is required to obtain, verify and
record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Act. 
 Section 9.14. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate
applicable to any Loan or participation in any LC Disbursement, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan or LC Disbursement or participation therein under applicable law (collectively the
“Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan or LC Disbursement or participation therein in
accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would
have been payable in respect of such Loan or LC Disbursement or participation therein but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans
or LC Disbursement or participation therein or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have
been received by such Lender. 
 Section 9.15. Amendments to Security Documents. By their signature to the Amendment
and Restatement Agreement, the Required Lenders irrevocably authorize and instruct the Collateral Agent, at any time after the Second ARCA Effective Date, to enter into (x) such amendments to Sections 3(d) and 7(c) of the Security Agreement and
(y) such other amendments to the Security Documents (or any other agreements delivered in connection therewith (including, without limitation, any Deposit Account Control Agreements (as defined in the Security Agreement))), in each case as are
required to create and/or permit the existence of Liens on the Collateral permitted under Section 6.02(o) and the establishment of the collateral agency arrangements with respect thereto, as contemplated by (and to the extent not inconsistent
with) the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement. 
  

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 139Exhibit 10.1

 Exhibit 10.1 
 LOAN MODIFICATION AGREEMENT 
 This LOAN MODIFICATION AGREEMENT (the “Modification”) is entered into as of September 30____, 2009, by and between the lender listed on Exhibit A
(“Lender”), whose address is 8377 East Hartford Drive, Suite 200, Scottsdale, Arizona 85255-5401, and SUPERTEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Virginia limited partnership
(“Borrower”), whose address is 305 North 5th Street, P. O. Box 1448, Norfolk, Nebraska, 68701. This Modification is also joined in by SUPERTEL HOSPITALITY, INC., a Virginia corporation, SUPERTEL HOSPITALITY, REIT TRUST, a Maryland
real estate investment trust (collectively, if more than one, “Guarantor”) whose address is 305 North 5th Street, P. O. Box 1448, Norfolk, Nebraska, 68701. 
 PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 
 A. Pursuant to the loan
agreements described on Exhibit A (as previously amended and modified, the “Loan Agreements”), Lender has extended loans to Borrower (individually, a “Loan” and collectively, the
“Loans”). The Loans are evidenced by one or more promissory notes (individually and collectively, the “Note”). The Loan Agreements, the Note and all other documents and instruments currently evidencing
and securing the Loans are referred to collectively as the “Current Loan Documents.” The Current Loan Documents, as modified by this Modification, are referred to as the “Loan Documents,” and
references in the Current Loan Documents and this Modification to the “Loan Documents,” or any of them, shall be deemed to be a reference to such Loan Documents, as modified by this Modification. The Loans and Current Loan Documents
associated with a particular Loan are referred to by reference to the number of the Note on Exhibit A (e.g., the Loan and Current Loan Documents associated with Note 1 are referred to as “Loan 1” and the
“Current Loan 1 Documents” and so forth for each of the various Notes. 
 B. The Loans have been
guaranteed by Guarantor. 
 C. Borrower has requested that Lender modify the Loan and the Current Loan Documents as provided in
this Modification, and Lender is willing to so modify the Loan and the Current Loan Documents, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Modification. 
 D. Capitalized terms used in this Modification and not otherwise defined in this Modification shall have the meanings given to those terms in the Loan Agreements. 
 AGREEMENT: 
 For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Borrower, Guarantor and Lender agree as follows: 
 1. Accuracy of Preliminary Statement; Effective Date. Borrower and Guarantor acknowledge the accuracy of the Preliminary Statement and the parties agree that the Preliminary Statement is a part of
this Modification. Borrower and Guarantor also acknowledge and agree that the information set forth on Exhibit A is complete and correct. The modifications of the Loan Documents and the obligations of Lender pursuant to this
Modification will be effective on the date that Lender determines that the conditions precedent set forth in this Modification have been satisfied in full (such date, the “Effective Date”). 
 2. Modification of Current Loan Documents. 
 (a) Current Loan 1 Documents, Current Loan 2 Documents, Current Loan 3 Documents, Current Loan 4 Documents, Current Loan 5
Documents, Current Loan 6 Documents, Current Loan 7 Documents, Current Loan 8 Documents and Current Loan 9 Documents (collectively referred to herein as “Loan Documents 1-9”). The following provisions shall be deemed incorporated into
each of the Loan Documents 1-9 as of the Effective Date, and shall supersede any other provision in conflict therewith: 
 (i) Reamortization. Upon a principal pay down of the outstanding balance of the Loan as a result of a sale of any of the Premises securing Loans 1-9 (as defined in the Loan

 
Documents of Borrower), and at the request of the Borrower, the remaining loan balance of the applicable Note shall be reamortized at the interest rate shown in the applicable Note for the
purpose of calculating the monthly payments due pursuant to the applicable Note. 
 (ii) Certain Accounting
Terms and Principles. Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Modification or any of the other Loan Documents, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used in the Loan Documents shall be construed, all financial statements
delivered pursuant to any of the Loan Documents shall be prepared, and all computations of financial covenants, including amounts and ratios, provided for in this Modification or any of the other Loan Documents shall be made without giving effect to
any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any indebtedness or other liabilities of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party
at “fair value,” as defined therein. 
 3. Borrower Representations, Warranties and Covenants. As additional
consideration to and inducement for Lender to enter into this Modification, Borrower represents and warrants to and covenants with Lender as follows: 
 (a) Representations and Warranties. Each and all representations and warranties of Borrower in the Current Loan Documents are and will continue to be accurate, complete and correct. The
representations and warranties in this Modification are true, complete and correct as of the date set forth above, will continue to be true, complete and correct as of the consummation of the modifications contemplated by this Modification, and will
survive such consummation. 
 (b) No Defaults. Borrower is not in default under any of the Loan Documents,
nor has any event or circumstance occurred that is continuing that, with the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would be a default or an event of default by Borrower under any of the Loan Documents. 
 (c) No Material Changes. There has been no material adverse change in the financial condition of Borrower, Guarantor
or any other person whose financial statement has been delivered to Lender in connection with the Loans from the most recent financial statement received by Lender from Borrower, Guarantor or such other persons. 
 (d) No Conflicts; No Consents Required. Neither execution nor delivery of this Modification nor fulfillment of or
compliance with the terms and provisions hereof will conflict with, or result in a breach of the terms or conditions of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which Borrower is a party or by which Borrower may be bound. No
consents, approvals or authorizations are required for the execution and delivery of this Modification by Borrower or for Borrower’s compliance with its terms and provisions. 
 (e) Claims and Defenses. Borrower has no claims, counterclaims, defenses, or set-offs with respect to the Loans or the
Loan Documents. Lender and its predecessors in interest have performed all of their obligations under the Loan Documents, and Borrower has no defenses, offsets, counterclaims, claims or demands of any nature which can be asserted against Lender or
its predecessors in interest for damages or to reduce or eliminate all or any part of the obligations of Borrower under the Loan Documents. 
 (f) Validity. This Modification and the other Loan Documents are and will continue to be the legal, valid and binding obligations of Borrower, enforceable against Borrower in accordance with their
terms. 
 (g) Valid Existence, Execution and Delivery, and Due Authorization. Borrower validly exists
under the laws of the State of its formation or organization and has the requisite power and authority to execute and deliver this Modification and to perform the Loan Documents. The execution and delivery of this Modification and the performance of
the Loan Documents have been duly authorized by all requisite action by or on behalf of Borrower. This Modification has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of Borrower. 

 (h) Ratification of Current Loan Documents and Collateral. The
Current Loan Documents, as modified by this Modification, are ratified and affirmed by Borrower and shall remain in full force and effect. Except to the extent, if any, specifically provided for in this Modification: (i) the liens of Lender on
and security interests in any and all real or personal property (tangible or intangible) granted as security for any of the Loans shall continue in full force and effect and none of such property is or shall be released from such liens and security
interests; and (ii) this Modification shall not constitute a waiver of any rights or remedies of Lender in respect of the Loan Documents. 
 4. Consent; Reaffirmation; and Acknowledgement. Guarantor (a) consents to the terms and conditions of this Modification; and (b) reaffirms the Guaranty and confirms and agrees that,
notwithstanding this Modification and consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the release of any collateral, the Guaranty and all of Guarantor’s covenants, obligations, agreements, waivers, and liabilities set forth in
the Guaranty continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms with respect to the obligations guaranteed, modified only to the extent that the guaranteed obligations are modified by this Modification. 
 5. Guarantor Representations and Warranties. Guarantor represents and warrants to Lender that: 
 (a) No Material Changes. There has been no material adverse change in the financial condition of Guarantor from the
most recent financial statement received by Lender from Guarantor. 
 (b) Existing Representations and
Warranties. Each and all representations and warranties of Guarantor in the Current Loan Documents are and will continue to be accurate, complete and correct. 
 (c) No Conflicts; No Consents Required. Neither execution nor delivery of this Modification nor fulfillment of or
compliance with the terms and provisions hereof will conflict with, or result in a breach of the terms or conditions of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which Guarantor is a party or by which Guarantor may be bound. No
consents, approvals or authorizations are required for the execution and delivery of this Modification by Guarantor or for Guarantor’s compliance with its terms and provisions. 
 (d) Claims and Defenses. Guarantor has no claims, counterclaims, defenses, or offsets against Lender or its
predecessors in interest or with respect to any of its obligations or other liabilities under the Guaranty as a result of this Modifications or otherwise, any such claims, counterclaims, defenses or offsets being hereby waived and released.

 (e) Validity. This Modification is the legal, valid and binding agreement of Guarantor and is
enforceable against Guarantor in accordance with its terms. 
 (f) Power and Authority. Guarantor has the
full power, authority, capacity and legal right to execute and deliver this Modification and, with respect to each Guarantor that is an entity, the parties executing this Modification on behalf of such Guarantor are fully authorized and directed to
execute the same to bind such Guarantor. 
 6. Release. Borrower fully, finally and forever releases and discharges
Lender and each other Lender Party from any and all actions, causes of action, claims, debts, demands, liabilities, obligations and suits, of whatever kind or nature, in law or equity, that Borrower has or in the future may have, whether known or
unknown (i) in respect of the Loans, this Modification, the other Loan Documents or the actions or omissions of Lender in respect of the Loan or the Loan Documents and (ii) arising from events occurring prior to the date of this
Modification. BORROWER EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY PROVISION OF STATUTORY OR DECISIONAL LAW TO THE EFFECT THAT A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN SUCH PARTY’S FAVOR AT THE TIME OF
EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY SUCH PARTY, MUST HAVE

 
MATERIALLY AFFECTED SUCH PARTY’S SETTLEMENT WITH THE RELEASED PARTIES, INCLUDING PROVISIONS SIMILAR TO SECTION 1542 OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE, WHICH PROVIDES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES
NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.” For purposes of this Modification
“Lender Party” means Lender, each of its Related Persons, and the Affiliates of the Related Persons; “Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, each officer, director, general partner or
joint-venturer of such Person and any other Person that directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such Person; “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation (including a
business trust and a public benefit corporation), joint stock company, estate, association, firm, enterprise, trust, limited liability company, unincorporated association, joint venture and any other entity or Governmental Authority and
“Related Persons” means, with respect to any Person, (a) each Affiliate of such Person; (b) each director, officer, employee, agent, trustee, representative, attorney, and accountant of such Person or such
Person’s Affiliates; and (c) each insurance, environmental, and other adviser or consultant of or to such Person or such Person’s Affiliates. 
 7. Release by Guarantor. Guarantor fully, finally and forever releases and discharges Lender and each other Lender Party from any and all actions, causes of action, claims, debts, demands,
liabilities, obligations and suits of whatever kind or nature, in law or equity, that Guarantor has or may have, whether known or unknown (i) in respect of the Loans, the Guaranty or the other Loan Documents, or the actions or omissions of
Lender in respect of the Loans, the Loan Documents or the Guaranty and (ii) arising from events occurring prior to the date hereof. GUARANTOR EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY PROVISION OF STATUTORY OR DECISIONAL LAW TO THE EFFECT THAT A GENERAL RELEASE
DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN SUCH PARTY’S FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY SUCH PARTY, MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED SUCH PARTY’S SETTLEMENT WITH THE
RELEASED PARTIES, INCLUDING PROVISIONS SIMILAR TO SECTION 1542 OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE, WHICH PROVIDES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING
THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.” 
 8. Conditions
Precedent. The obligations of Lender to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Modification are subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent, each in the sole and absolute discretion of Lender: 
 (a) Borrower Performance. Borrower and Guarantor have duly executed and delivered this Modification and Borrower has
paid all fees and other amounts and performed all obligations required under this Modification to be paid and performed contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Modification. 
 (b) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of Borrower and Guarantor contained in this
Modification and any other document or instrument expressly contemplated by this Modification shall be true and correct in all material respects. 
 (c) Existence and Authority. If requested by Lender, Borrower shall have provided Lender with evidence that Borrower and Guarantor are in good standing under the laws of their state of formation
and in each state in which any collateral for the Loans is located and that the person or persons executing this Modification on behalf of Borrower and Guarantor are duly authorized to do so. 
 (d) Lien Priority. Lender shall have received such UCC search results, title reports and title insurance endorsements
as Lender shall reasonably require evidencing the continuing first priority of all of Lender’s liens in the collateral described in the Loan Documents. 
 (e) Insurance. Borrower shall have provided Lender with evidence satisfactory to Lender that all insurance required by
the Loan Documents is in full force and effect. 

 9. Entire Agreement; Change; Discharge; Termination or Waiver. The Current Loan
Documents, as modified by this Modification, contain the entire understanding and agreement of Borrower and Lender in respect of the Loans and supersede all prior representations, warranties, agreements and understandings. No provision of the Loan
Documents may be changed, discharged, supplemented, terminated or waived except in a writing signed by Lender and Borrower. 
 10. No Limitations. The description of the Loan Documents contained in this Modification is for informational and convenience purposes only and shall not be deemed to limit, imply or modify the terms or otherwise affect the Loan
Documents. 
 11. Time of the Essence. Time is of the essence in this Modification. 
 12. Binding Effect. The Loan Documents, as modified by this Modification, shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of,
Borrower, Guarantor and Lender and their respective successors and assigns. 
 13. Further Assurances. Borrower and
Guarantor shall execute, acknowledge (as appropriate) and deliver to Lender such additional agreements, documents and instruments as reasonably required by Lender to carry out the intent of this Modification. 
 14. Counterpart Execution. This Modification may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original
and all of which together shall constitute one and the same document. Signature pages may be detached from the counterparts and attached to a single copy of this Modification to physically form one document. Delivery of an executed signature page of
this Modification by facsimile or e-copy transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof. 
 15. Limitation of Liability for Certain Damages. In no event shall any Lender Party be liable to Borrower , Guarantor or any of their respective affiliates (collectively the “Credit
Parties” and individually a “Credit Party”) on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including any loss of profits, business or anticipated
savings). BORROWER AND EACH OTHER CREDIT PARTY HEREBY WAIVE, RELEASE AND AGREE NOT TO SUE UPON (AND BORROWER SHALL CAUSE EACH OF THE OTHER CREDIT PARTIES TO SO WAIVE, RELEASE, AND AGREE NOT TO SUE UPON) ANY SUCH CLAIM FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, WHETHER OR NOT ACCRUED AND WHETHER OR NOT KNOWN OR SUSPECTED TO EXIST IN ITS FAVOR. 
 16. Jurisdiction and Service of Process. 
 (a) Submission to Jurisdiction. Any legal
action or proceeding with respect to any Loan Document shall be brought exclusively in the courts of the State of Arizona located in Maricopa County or of the United States for the District of Arizona, and Borrower and each other Credit Party accept
for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts; provided, however, that nothing in this Modification shall limit or restrict the right of Lender to commence any
proceeding in the federal or state courts located in the state in which property securing the Loan[s] is located to the extent Lender deems such proceeding necessary or advisable to exercise remedies available under any Loan Document. Lender,
Borrower and each other Credit Party hereby irrevocably waive any objection, including any objection to the laying of venue or based on the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of them may now or hereafter have to the bringing of any such
action or proceeding in such jurisdictions. 
 (b) Service of Process. Borrower and each other Credit
Party hereby irrevocably waive personal service of any and all legal process, summons, notices and other documents and other service of process of any kind and consents to such service in any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United States
of America with respect to or otherwise arising out of or in connection with any Loan Document by any means permitted by applicable law, including by the mailing thereof (by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) to the address of Borrower
specified on the signature page hereto (and shall be effective

 
when such mailing shall be effective, as provided therein). Borrower and each other Credit Party agree that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be
enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing contained in this subsection shall affect the right of Lender to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable law. 
 (c) Non-Exclusive Jurisdiction. Nothing contained in this Section shall affect the right of Lender to serve process in
any other manner permitted by applicable Requirements of Law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any Borrower Party in any other jurisdiction. 
 17. Disclosure Authorization. Borrower and Guarantor each authorize its respective banks, creditors (including trade creditors), vendors, suppliers, customers, and each franchisor to disclose and
release to Lender any and all information any of them may request from time to time regarding (a) any depository, loan or other credit account of Borrower and Guarantor; (b) the status of each franchise agreement; (c) the affairs and
financial condition of Borrower and Guarantor; and (d) Borrower’s and Guarantor’s respective business operations. Borrower and Guarantor each expressly authorize Lender to perform background, credit, judgment, lien and other checks,
searches, inspections and investigations and to obtain personal and business credit reports and asset reports with respect to Borrower and Guarantor and to answer questions about their respective credit experience with Borrower and Guarantor. The
information obtained by the Lender pursuant to this paragraph, together with all other information which any of the Lender now possess or in the future may acquire with respect to Borrower and Guarantor, the Collateral, or the business operations of
Borrower, is referred to as the “Borrower Information.” 
 18. Permitted Disclosures. Borrower
and Guarantor each authorize each Lender Party to disclose Borrower Information as follows: (a) to each franchisor or licensor of Borrower or Guarantor, upon written request by such franchisor or licensor; (b) to any proposed transferee,
purchaser, assignee, servicer, participant, lender, investor, ratings agency, or other Person with respect to any proposed sale, assignment, or other transfer by Lender of any of its rights in the Loan Documents, including servicing rights, or sale
or other disposition of any of the Collateral; (c) to any of the other Lender Parties or any insurance or title company in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, including any action, suit, or proceeding arising
out of, in connection with, or relating to, this Modification and the other Loan Documents, the Loans, or any other transaction contemplated hereby, including in connection with the exercise of Lender’s rights and remedies; (d) to the
extent such information is or becomes available to a Lender Party from sources not known by such Lender Party to be subject to disclosure restrictions; (e) to the extent disclosure is required by applicable law or other legal process or is
requested or demanded by any governmental authority; and (f) as may otherwise be authorized in writing by Borrower. Borrower and Guarantor each agree that the disclosures permitted by this Section and any other disclosures of Borrower
Information authorized pursuant to any of the Loan Documents may be made even though any such disclosure may involve the transmission or other communication of Borrower Information from the nation of residence or domicile of such Borrower or
Guarantor or a Lender Party to another country or jurisdiction, and Borrower and each Guarantor waive the provisions of any data privacy law, rule, or regulation of any applicable governmental authority that would otherwise apply to the disclosures
authorized in this Section. 
 19. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. LENDER, BORROWER AND EACH OTHER CREDIT PARTY, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, WAIVE ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO, THIS MODIFICATION, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY. THIS
WAIVER APPLIES TO ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE. 
 20. Governing Law.
The laws of the State of Arizona (without giving effect to its conflicts of laws principles) shall govern all matters arising out of, in connection with or relating to this Modification and the other Loan Documents, including its validity,
interpretation, construction, performance and enforcement; provided, however, that with respect to any married individual signing this Modification who is not a resident of the State of Arizona, this Section shall not be a contractual
choice of the community property laws of the State of Arizona. 

 Executed and effective as of the date first set forth above. 
  

									
	LENDER:
	
	GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL
	CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Kelly A. Halford

	Printed Name:	 	 Kelly A. Halford

	Its:	 	Authorized Signatory
	
	BORROWER:
	
	SUPERTEL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Virginia limited partnership
	 By: SUPERTEL HOSPITALITY REIT TRUST, a Maryland real estate investment trust, its General Partner

		
	By:	 	 /s/ Kelly A. Walters

	Kelly A. Walters, President & Secretary
	
	GUARANTORS:
	
	SUPERTEL HOSPITALITY, INC., A Virginia corporation
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Kelly A. Walters

	Kelly A. Walters, Chief Executive Officer
	
	SUPERTEL HOSPITALITY, REIT TRUST, a Maryland real estate investment trust
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Kelly A. Walters

	Kelly A. Walters, President & Secretary

  

 EXHIBIT A 
 THE LENDER AND THE LOANS 
  

									
	  	  	 Contract
No.
	  	 Lender
	  	 Description of Loan Agreement
	  	 Principal Balance,
 as of September 1, 2009

					
	Loan 1	  	32912	  	General Electric Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GECC”)	  	Loan Agreement dated May 16, 2007	  	$23,829,456.00
					
	Loan 2	  	31437	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated August 18, 2006	  	$17,165,217.63
					
	Loan 3	  	32630	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated February 6, 2007	  	$3,319,154.77
					
	Loan 4	  	32098	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated January 5, 2007	  	$13,521,290.60
					
	Loan 5	  	15005001	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated January 31, 2008	  	$2,470,000.00
					
	Loan 6	  	14724001	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated January 2, 2008	  	$4,355,000.00
					
	Loan 7	  	14724003	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated January 2, 2008	  	$3,380,000.00
					
	Loan 8	  	14724004	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated January 2, 2008	  	$ 6,765,000.00
					
	Loan 9	  	14724005	  	GECC	  	Loan Agreement dated January 2, 2008	  	$1,100,000.00

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