0001171843-12-002457 Sample Contracts

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First Supplemental Indenture • July 3rd, 2012 • Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. • Telephone communications (no radiotelephone) • New York

• Contract Type
  First Supplemental Indenture
• Filed
  July 3rd, 2012
• Company
  Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc.
• Industry
  Telephone communications (no radiotelephone)
• Jurisdiction
  New York

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of July 2, 2012, among Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), Consolidated Communications, Inc., an Illinois corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Holdings (the “Successor”), the guarantors listed on the signature pages hereto (together with Holdings, the “Guarantors”), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) under the Indenture referred to below.

CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS FINANCE CO.

Registration Rights Agreement • July 3rd, 2012 • Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. • Telephone communications (no radiotelephone) • New York

• Contract Type
  Registration Rights Agreement
• Filed
  July 3rd, 2012
• Company
  Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc.
• Industry
  Telephone communications (no radiotelephone)
• Jurisdiction
  New York

Reference is made to the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of May 30, 2012 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), among Consolidated Communications Finance Co. (the “Issuer”) and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. Capitalized terms used in this Joinder Agreement without definition have the respective meanings given to them in the Registration Rights Agreement.