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- Jeff Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Windstream (NYSE: WIN), will speak at 7 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII Conference in New York.

Instructions to access the webcast of the presentation can be found at www.windstream.com/investors. The public can access the presentation via the Investor Relations portion of the Web site on the day of the conference. It also will be archived on the Web site for 30 days.

About Windstream

Windstream Corporation is an S&P 500 company that provides digital phone, high-speed Internet and high-definition video and entertainment services to residential and business customers in 16 states. The company has approximately 3.1 million access lines and about

$3.2 billion in annual revenues. For more information, visit www.windstream.com.

Windstream Corporation
Investor Relations Contacts:
Mary Michaels, 501-748-7578
mary.michaels@windstream.com