QuickLinks -- Click here to rapidly navigate through this documentSuccession Agreement • March 24th, 2004 • Fairpoint Communications Inc • Telephone communications (no radiotelephone)
Contract Type FiledMarch 24th, 2004 Company IndustryThis letter agreement shall supplement and modify your Succession Agreement with FairPoint Communications, Inc. (the "Company") dated as of December 31, 2001 (the "Succession Agreement"), which Succession Agreement shall expire by its own terms, without renewal, on December 31, 2003.
QuickLinks -- Click here to rapidly navigate through this documentEmployment Agreement • March 24th, 2004 • Fairpoint Communications Inc • Telephone communications (no radiotelephone)
Contract Type FiledMarch 24th, 2004 Company IndustryThis letter agreement shall supplement and modify your Employment Agreement with FairPoint Communications, Inc. dated as of January 20, 2000 (the "Employment Agreement"), which Employment Agreement shall expire by its own terms, without renewal, on December 31, 2003.
FIRST AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENTCredit Agreement • March 24th, 2004 • Fairpoint Communications Inc • Telephone communications (no radiotelephone) • New York
Contract Type FiledMarch 24th, 2004 Company Industry JurisdictionFIRST AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT (this "First Amendment"), dated as of December 17, 2003, among FAIRPOINT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (f/k/a MJD Communications, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), the undersigned Credit Parties, the lenders from time to time party to the Credit Agreement referred to below (the "Lenders"), WACHOVIA BANK, N.A., as Documentation Agent (the "Documentation Agent"), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Syndication Agent (the "Syndication Agent"), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (f/k/a Bankers Trust Company), as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent" and, together with the Documentation Agent and the Syndication Agent, collectively, the "Agents"). Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings provided such terms in the Credit Agreement referred to below.