(19) Dividends

Our Board of Directors, declared the following cash and non-cash dividends during the successor years ended December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011:

Date Declared	Record Date		Total Amount		Payment Date

			(in millions)
June 2012⁽²⁾	June 2012	—	$	550	September 2012
January 2012⁽¹⁾	January 2012	—	$	38	January 2012
September 2011⁽²⁾	September 2011	—	$	500	$300 paid September 2011 $200 paid September 2012
July 2011⁽¹⁾	July 2011	—	$	42	July and December 2011
June 2011	June 2011	—	$	28	June 2011

(1): These were non-cash transactions whereby we transferred assets via dividends to our parent company, CenturyLink.
(2): This cash dividend was paid to our parent company CenturyLink.

Date Declared	Record Date	Dividend Per Share		Total Amount		Payment Date

				(in millions)
January 24, 2011	February 18, 2011	$	0.08	$	141	February 25, 2011
October 20, 2010	December 3, 2010	$	0.08	$	139	December 17, 2010
August 18, 2010	September 10, 2010	$	0.08	$	139	September 24, 2010
April 14, 2010	May 21, 2010	$	0.08	$	139	June 11, 2010
December 16, 2009	February 19, 2010	$	0.08	$	138	March 12, 2010

For the periods prior to CenturyLink's acquisition of us on April 1, 2011, our Board of Directors declared the following cash dividends payable in 2011 and 2010:

Dividends paid are reflected on our consolidated statement of cash flows under "Financing Activities".