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South East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit Mike Flynn Frontier Communications Sr. Vice President/GM - Illin

South East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit Mike Flynn Frontier Communications Sr. Vice President/GM - Illinois December 1, 2011. Frontier @ a Glance.

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South East Central Illinois Regional Broadband Summit Mike Flynn Frontier Communications Sr. Vice President/GM - Illin

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  1. South East Central Illinois Regional Broadband SummitMike FlynnFrontier CommunicationsSr. Vice President/GM - IllinoisDecember 1, 2011

  2. Frontier @ a Glance • Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) was founded in 1935 as Citizens Utilities and became narrowed to a Telecom Network Operator in 2004. • Frontier’s network provides fast, reliable data, voice, and video service to 3.5 million residential customers and 381,000 business customers across 27 states. • Frontier is the largest communications company focused on rural America. • A transformational acquisition of properties from Verizon tripled Frontier’s business size.

  3. New Frontier in Illinois • Frontier’s Illinois commitment: • 85% of all Frontier Illinois households will have access to broadband– High Speed Internet (HSI) by the end of 2013 resulting from a capital investment of $50+ million. • Illinois 3 Year Projection… Starting at 59.5% HSI coverage from our predecessor. • Network build is underway and making strong progress: Making HSI available to 85k additional homes by enabling $50M capital investment first 17 months. • Major backbone upgrades of another $2+M – Building our Illinois ROADM network. (Capable of up to 880G) • Plan for 2012 is to add rural market builds of 50K+ additional homes and businesses with HSI access in Illinois! • Year 3 Broadband Build for Illinois will add nearly 20K more new homes and businesses with Frontier HSI network access. • Ending projection of HSI Coverage 86-92% from 59% Day 1 July 2010!

  4. Broadband Deployment • All new Frontier network builds with the purpose of increasing household and business accessibility to High Speed Internet (HSI). • Projects with the purpose of increasing existing bandwidth for customers. • Large backbone enhancements to upgrade acquired 414 towns, and connect them to existing Frontier infrastructure where 92% of Frontier customers in original 138 exchanges can have HSI today. • Overall project categories include: DSLAM placement, fiber optic builds, local and regional transport ROADM networks being built to enhance throughput for 1G and beyond services. FTTH – Blackstone • Not just network… Did you know Frontier has provided over 100,000 new Laptops and PC’s into homes for free with HSI service packages! • A great way to help overcome the digital divide in our rural markets! 4

  5. High-Capacity National Backbone • Frontier’s Fiber Network Interconnects it’s 27 State Footprint

  6. Illinois Backbone – June 2010 (Vz Network) (10) DS3 Leased On Net (11) DS3 Freeport Chicago (11) DS3 Dekalb (4) OC-12 Princeton (6) DS3 (4) DS3 Bloomington Carthage Rantoul (11) DS3 Jacksonville Moweaqua (25) DS3 Olney Irvington Carbondale 6

  7. Illinois Backbone –YE 2011 New Frontier // // // // (2+) GIGE Leased On Net Freeport (1) GIGE Minneapolis, MN Chicago Morrison (1) GIGE Dekalb (2+) GIGE Princeton (1) GIGE (2+) GIGE (1) GIGE Bloomington Carthage Rantoul (1) GIGE (1) GIGE Building our ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexed) Network across Illinois. (2+) GIGE Jacksonville Moweaqua (2+) GIGE (1) GIGE Olney Irvington (1) GIGE Carbondale (2+) GIGE Atlanta, GA 7

  8. Thank you, It is a pleasure sharing our New Frontier HSI Broadband build out goals for our future, and the future of Illinois! 8 8

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