January 30, 2025
Paul H. Sunu
Chief Executive Officer
Windstream Parent, Inc.
4005 Rodney Parham Road
Little Rock, AR 72212
Re: Windstream Parent, Inc.
Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
January 17, 2025
File No. 333-281068
Dear Paul H. Sunu:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the
following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement
and providing
the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your
facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why
in your
response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the
information
you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Unless
we note
otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our January 6,
2025 letter.
Amendment No. 4 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information, page 73
1. We note your response to prior comments 4 and 5. For assets where
estimated useful
life is changing, disclose the asset, its current useful life and the
new expected useful
life used in the pro forma adjustment.
Exhibits
2. We note that you issued $1.4 billion in Additional Windstream 2031 Notes
on
December 23, 2024. Please advise us whether you will file a supplement
to your
Indenture governing the 8.250% Senior First Lien Notes due 2031, filed
as Exhibit
4.18. We note that the issuance of a supplement Indenture is referenced
in Section 2.1
of Exhibit 4.18 if Additional Notes were issued.
January 30, 2025
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General
3. We continue to consider your responses to prior comments 6, 18 and 20 of
your letter
dated October 29, 2024 along with your responses to the related comments
in your
letter dated December 5, 2024.
Please contact Inessa Kessman at 202-551-3371 or Robert Littlepage at
202-551-3361
if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and
related
matters. Please contact Edwin Kim at 202-551-3297 or Jan Woo at 202-551-3453
with any
other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of
Corporation Finance
Office of Technology
cc: Ben Pedersen, Esq.