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SECTION 16(a) BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
REPORTING COMPLIANCE
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires Windstream’s directors and executive officers, and persons who
own more than ten percent of Windstream’s common stock, to file with the SEC and NASDAQ initial reports of
ownership and reports of changes in ownership of that common stock. To Windstream’s knowledge, based solely
upon a review of copies of reports provided by those individuals to Windstream and written representations of those
individuals that no other reports were required with respect to the year ended December 31, 2015, Windstream
believes that all of the foregoing filing requirements applicable to its directors, executive officers, and greater-than-
ten percent beneficial owners have been met.
ANNUAL REPORT/HOUSEHOLDING
This Proxy Statement is accompanied by the Annual Report, which incorporates Windstream’s Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, including the consolidated financial statements and the financial
statement schedules thereto.
For stockholders who elect to receive proxy materials by mail and not electronic delivery, only one copy of
this proxy statement, and the accompanying Annual Report, is being delivered to such stockholders who share an
address, unless Windstream has received contrary instructions from one or more of the stockholders. Windstream
will promptly deliver a separate copy of this proxy statement and the accompanying Annual Report to any stockholder
at a shared address to which a single copy of those documents has been delivered by mail upon the written or oral
request from that stockholder to Windstream at the address or telephone number provided below. Any stockholder
sharing a single copy of the proxy statement and Annual Report who wishes to receive a separate distribution by mail
of Windstream’s proxy statement and Annual Report in the future and stockholders sharing an address and receiving
by mail multiple copies of Windstream’s proxy statement and Annual Report who wish to share a single copy of
those documents in the future should notify Windstream in writing to Investor Relations, Windstream Holdings, Inc.,
4001 North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, Arkansas 72212 or by calling [phone].
OTHER MATTERS
The management and the Board of Directors of Windstream do not know of any other matters that may come
before the meeting. If any other matters properly come before the meeting, however, it is the intention of the persons
named in the accompanying form of proxy to vote the proxy in accordance with their judgment on those matters.
Windstream will bear the cost of solicitation of proxies. In addition to the use of the mail, proxies may be solicited
by officers, directors, and employees of Windstream, personally or by telephone or electronic means. In the event
the management of Windstream deems it advisable, Windstream may engage the services of an independent proxy
solicitation firm to aid in the solicitation of proxies. Although not known at this time, the fees paid by Windstream,
in the event of such an engagement, likely would not exceed $20,000. Windstream will pay persons holding stock
in their names or those of their nominees for their expenses in sending soliciting material to their principals in
accordance with applicable regulations.
The material referred to in this Proxy Statement under the caption “Audit Committee Report” and the
“Compensation Committee Report on Executive Compensation” shall not be deemed soliciting material or otherwise
deemed filed and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by any general statement of incorporation by reference in
any filings made under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act.
Dated: April 1, 2016 By Order of the Board of Directors,
Kristi Moody
Secretary