Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies	NOTE 1: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Nature of Operations Warwick Valley Telephone Company (the "Company") is a full-service telecommunications company. As a regional Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier operating in southern Orange County, New York and northern New Jersey, the Company provides its historic local and toll telephone service to residential and business customers, Internet high speed broadband service, video service and DIRECTV. Through its acquisitions of the Alteva (see Note 2) and USA Datanet businesses, the Company delivers cloud-based Unified Communications solutions including Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP"), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence and advanced voice applications for a broad customer base including enterprise customers, small and medium-sized busineses and other business customers. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP") for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of the Company's management, all adjustments consisting only of normal recurring adjustments considered necessary for fair presentation have been included. Operating results and cash flows for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire year. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in the condensed consolidated financial statements. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and any disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.

Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies

NOTE 1: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Nature of Operations

Warwick Valley Telephone Company (the "Company") is a full-service telecommunications company. As a regional Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier operating in southern Orange County, New York and northern New Jersey, the Company provides its historic local and toll telephone service to residential and business customers, Internet high speed broadband service, video service and DIRECTV. Through its acquisitions of the Alteva (see Note 2) and USA Datanet businesses, the Company delivers cloud-based Unified Communications solutions including Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP"), hosted Microsoft Communication Services, fixed mobile convergence and advanced voice applications for a broad customer base including enterprise customers, small and medium-sized busineses and other business customers.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP") for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of the Company's management, all adjustments consisting only of normal recurring adjustments considered necessary for fair presentation have been included. Operating results and cash flows for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire year.

The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in the condensed consolidated financial statements.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and any disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.