10-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012

or

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                      to                     .

Commission File Number: 000-35180

Lumos Networks Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	80-0697274
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

One Lumos Plaza, Waynesboro, Virginia 22980

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(540) 946-2000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, $0.01 par value	The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.     ¨  Yes    x  No

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    ¨  Yes    x  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    x  Yes    ¨  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    x  Yes    ¨  No

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  x

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Large accelerated filer ¨        Non-accelerated filer  ¨        Accelerated filer  x        Smaller reporting  company  ¨ 

(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).    ¨  Yes    x  No

As of June 30, 2012, the aggregate market value of the Registrant’s common stock was $144,687,102.

There were 21,553,947 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding as of the close of business on March 1, 2013.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Document	Incorporated Into
Proxy statement for the 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders	Part III

LUMOS NETWORKS CORP.

2012 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I
Item 1.	Business	2
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	9
Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	19
Item 2.	Properties	19
Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	19
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	19
Part II
Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	20
Item 6.	Selected Financial Data	22
Item 7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	24
Item 7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	40
Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	41
Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	71
Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	71
Item 9B.	Other Information	71
Part III
Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	71
Item 11.	Executive Compensation	71
Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	72
Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	72
Item 14.	Principal Accountant Fees and Services	72
Part IV
Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	72
Signatures

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PART I

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Any statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical fact, including statements about our beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements and should be evaluated as such. The words “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “targets,” “projects,” “should,” “may,” “will” and similar words and expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are contained throughout this report, for example in “Business,” “Risk Factors,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Such forward-looking statements reflect, among other things, our current expectations, plans and strategies, and anticipated financial results, all of which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Many of these risks are beyond our ability to control or predict. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained throughout this report. Because of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These risks and other factors include those listed under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. We do not undertake any obligation to update or review any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Item 1. Business.

Lumos Networks Overview

Lumos Networks Corp. (“Lumos Networks,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) is a fiber-based network service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region. We utilize our 5,800 mile long-haul fiber network to provide data, broadband and voice services to enterprise, carrier and residential customers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. Our mission is to leverage and expand our fiber assets in order to capture the growing demand for data and mobility services in both our existing and contiguous markets.

We became an independent, publicly traded company on October 31, 2011, as a result of our spin-off from NTELOS Holdings Corp. (“NTELOS”). On October 14, 2011, NTELOS announced a distribution date of October 31, 2011 for the spin-off of all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Lumos Networks Corp., which operated NTELOS’s wireline operations (the “Business Separation”). Prior to and in connection with the Business Separation, following the market close on October 31, 2011, NTELOS effectuated a 1-for-2 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of its shares of common stock. The spin-off of Lumos Networks was in the form of a tax-free stock distribution to NTELOS stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 24, 2011, the record date (the “Distribution”). On October 31, 2011, NTELOS distributed one share of Lumos Networks common stock for every share of NTELOS common stock outstanding, on a post-Reverse Stock Split basis. Our common stock has been publicly traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”) under the ticker symbol “LMOS” since November 1, 2011.

We conduct all of our business through our wholly-owned subsidiary Lumos Networks Operating Company and its subsidiaries. Our principal executive offices are located at One Lumos Plaza, Waynesboro, Virginia 22980. The telephone number at that address is (540) 946-2000.

Business Strategy

Our primary objective is to leverage and expand our fiber assets to capture the growing demand for data and mobility services amongst our enterprise and carrier customers in our marketplace. Our strategy is to (i) maximize the value of our 5,800 mile long-haul fiber optic network to expand the sale of data and IP-services to new and existing enterprise and government customers while maintaining a ratio of approximately 70% to 80% on-net traffic; (ii) leverage our fiber network to expand to new fiber to the cell site opportunities; (iii) utilize our fiber footprint and carrier relationships to expand our revenue in transport; (iv) continue to provide high quality customer service and a compelling value proposition; (v) continue to shift incremental resources from the declining legacy voice products into our faster growing and more profitable strategic data products in the Competitive segment of our business; (vi) use our “edge-out” strategy to expand into new adjacent geographic markets to further leverage our fiber network and growing offering of data services; and (vii) use our success-based investment strategy to improve capital efficiency and expand margins.

Our strategic data products, which provided approximately 50% of our total revenue in 2012 and represent the main growth opportunity and the key focal point of our strategy, include our enterprise data, carrier data, fiber to the cell site (“FTTC”) and IP services product lines. These businesses, in the aggregate, also typically carry higher margins than many of our other product lines. A majority of our capital expenditures and the focus of our sales force have more recently been and will continue to be dedicated to expanding revenue and profit from our strategic data products. We believe that a balanced split between enterprise and carrier revenue results in the most effective capital allocation and resulting profitability.

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The remaining 50% of our total revenue in 2012 was generated from legacy voice and access products. These businesses, in the aggregate, require limited incremental capital or personnel investment and deliver reasonably predictable cash flows. It is our belief that revenue from these legacy businesses, in the aggregate, will continue to decline at an annual rate of approximately 15%. This decline is the expected result of regulatory actions taken to reduce intra-state tariffs, access line loss resulting from residential wireless substitution, technology changes, the effect of current economic conditions on businesses and product replacement by competitive voice service offerings from cable operators in our markets. Despite the declining revenues, it is expected that the cash flows from these businesses will continue to be a significant contributor to funding the capital expenditures required for our higher growth and higher margin strategic data businesses.

Two key tenets of our growth initiatives for our strategic data products are “edge-out” and “on-net” strategies. Our “edge-out” strategy involves expanding our fiber assets into new contiguous markets. As we “edge-out” into new markets, we are able to bring new enterprise customers and carrier customers and cell sites into our fiber networks as “on-net” customers, meaning they are connected to our network and we eliminate the need to lease access lines from competitive carriers’ networks. We have determined that maintaining a ratio of 70% to 80% of our traffic as “on-net” is the most effective revenue mix for our Company. As we continue to expand our fiber assets, we are creating a footprint that reaches new customers and allows us to carry their traffic on our network. The “on-net” strategy utilizes a facilities-based approach in order to integrate as much traffic as possible through our network, thereby increasing leverage and profitability.

Our success-based capital investment strategy involves maximizing capital expenditure efficiency by pursuing “on-net” and “near-net” customer opportunities and maintaining a balanced mix of enterprise and carrier business. With this focus, we believe that we can achieve our capital efficiency goals in 2013 for capital projects, in the aggregate, of greater than 15% annual return on investment, greater than 15% internal rate of return, a less than 4-year payback and a capital expenditure to revenue ratio of three or less. In 2012, approximately 75% of our funds committed to capital projects were for success-based projects, defined by us as near-term revenue generating projects, which were evenly split between enterprise and carrier customers. Our goal is to achieve a similar ratio of success-based projects to total capital expenditures again in 2013.

Essential to our business strategy are our enterprise sales teams who sell networking and data solutions to over 1,500 major business customers in the region. In 2012, we revamped our go-to-market enterprise strategy to focus more on selling longer-term secure networking and data solutions. These customized solutions include metro Ethernet, voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”), cloud services, long haul transport and co-location services. We have refocused our efforts away from smaller single unit enterprises and residential customers in order to focus resources on medium and larger-sized enterprises, preferably with multiple locations in our market to leverage our product offering and network footprint. We also are focused on our key enterprise verticals, which include health care, education, financial services and government.

We provide transport services to seven larger telecommunications providers who operate in our markets and we also provide FTTC backhaul solutions to 370 wireless cell sites in our markets, where our wireless carrier customers are upgrading to offer 4G LTE services. We more than doubled our number of FTTC sites in 2012, as compared to 2011, and we expect this figure to grow in 2013.

Business Segments

During 2012, we had two reportable business segments, which conduct the following principal activities:

• Competitive – this segment encompasses all of our strategic data products and services, including enterprise data, FTTC, carrier data and VoIP services, which are marketed primarily to enterprise customers through our competitive local exchange carrier (“CLEC”) and Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) operation and carrier operations. Our CLEC also provides voice services and generates access revenue in our markets. Our Competitive business constitutes approximately 75% of our total revenue and requires the significant majority of our capital investments.

• Rural Local Exchange Carrier (“RLEC”) – this segment represents the remaining 25% of our business and offers wireline communications services to residential and enterprise customers in the western Virginia cities of Waynesboro and Covington, and portions of Alleghany, Augusta and Botetourt counties.

For detailed financial information about our business segments, see Note 4 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and for a detailed review of our financial performance and results of operations by business segment, see Part II, Item 7. Managements’ Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Competitive

The Competitive segment of our business currently serves customers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. We market and sell strategic data, legacy voice and access products and services primarily to business and carrier customers. Our strategic data product lines represented approximately 65% of our total revenue within the Competitive segment, with the remaining portion comprised of revenue from legacy voice and access products. Strategic data products are growing at a pace that significantly exceeds our other product lines and typically provide a higher profit margin. The objective of our Competitive segment is to leverage the ever increasing data bandwidth demands for our enterprise and carrier customers in our addressable markets.

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As of December 31, 2012, we had over 1,500 major business customers. Overall, we operated approximately 110,000 CLEC lines, of which approximately 96% are business lines, and had approximately 40,000 broadband network connections in service. Revenues from the Competitive segment accounted for approximately 76%, 75% and 61% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Pro forma to include the FiberNet acquisition for the year ended December 31, 2010, the Competitive segment accounted for approximately 73% of our total revenue.

Our competitive operations are based upon both our “edge-out” and “on-net” strategies that seek to expand into new markets by maximizing the use of our fiber assets while optimizing capital efficiency and profitability. In 2012, we began to re-deploy capital and personnel resources away from our declining legacy product lines (both voice and access, within our competitive and RLEC segments) towards our growth businesses within our strategic data product line and we expect this trend to continue into the future. Our “on-net” strategy utilizes a facilities-based approach that requires disciplined use of capital expenditures on success-based projects to grow our fiber assets and reach an increasing number of both enterprise and carrier customers.

In addition to the higher margins that are characteristic of on-net expansion, we have also been able to deliver other enterprise services, such as metro Ethernet transport as a direct result of on-net connectivity growth. We believe our dedication to the facilities-based strategy, combined with our commitment to customer service, will continue to attract large customers in our key vertical markets.

Within our carrier data business, we offer access to our approximate 5,800 mile long-haul fiber network, which provides connectivity to regional cities, carrier switches and cell sites across the Mid-Atlantic region. We also offer wireless backhaul services using our FTTC sites located near our fiber network. During 2012, we installed 222 FTTC sites for a total of 370 as of December 31, 2012. We are targeting to end 2013 with 550-600 FTTC installations. Through interconnections with other regional fiber networks, we were able to extend our network within Virginia and Western Pennsylvania and south to areas in north central North Carolina.

We have also invested in fiber-to-the-home, which passed approximately 16,500 homes as of December 31, 2012. The fiber network provides the foundation for IP-based video services, currently up to 300 Mbps high speed Internet services and will allow us to offer future high-bandwidth applications as they evolve.

RLEC

Our incumbent local exchange carrier business is conducted through two subsidiaries that qualify as RLECs under the Telecommunications Act. These two RLECs provide wireline communications services to residential and enterprise customers in the western Virginia cities of Waynesboro and Covington, and portions of Alleghany, Augusta and Botetourt counties. As of December 31, 2012, we operated approximately 31,200 RLEC telephone access lines, 4,500 of which are fiber-fed and have IPTV-based video services and broadband Internet access with speeds up to 300 Mbps (approximately 27% penetration of homes passed). We have increased our capabilities with video services over copper that is being targeted for more of the legacy base and we believe this service, in addition to our DSL services, will provide additional revenue opportunities by leveraging our existing copper assets.

In 2010, we received a federal broadband stimulus award to bring broadband services and infrastructure to Alleghany County, Virginia. The total project in Alleghany is expected to cost $16 million, 50% ($8 million) of which is being funded by a grant from the federal government. The project is required to be completed by September 30, 2015. We also finished 2012 with over 98% broadband capability in our RLEC markets. During 2012, we experienced declines in our access revenue within our RLEC segment and anticipate continuing declines primarily resulting from regulatory actions taken by applicable regulatory authorities as described in the Regulation section below and also due to network grooming by carriers.

Products and Services

We provide the following data and broadband services to our enterprise and carrier customers within the Competitive segment:

Metro Ethernet	•        Ethernet connectivity among multiple locations in the same city or region over our fiber optic network
	•        Fiber to the cell sites (“FTTC”), used by wireless carriers as backhaul
	•        Speeds ranging from 1.5 Mbps to 10 Gbps

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IP Services	•        IP-enabled product offerings that combine voice and data services over a dedicated broadband facility utilizing VoIP protocols •        Allows customers to dynamically allocate bandwidth to maximize voice and data transmissions •        Enables advanced features such as simultaneous ring, remote office, business continuity and fixed mobile convergence •        Product offerings include Integrated Access, IP Centrex, and IP Trunking
High-capacity Private Line Service and Wavelength Services	•        High-capacity, non-switched facilities provided to end users and carriers for voice and data applications. Wavelength technology is a means to efficiently utilize fiber in broadband applications and provide high-capacity bandwidth
High-Speed DSL Access	•        DSL technology that enables a customer to receive high-speed Internet access through a copper telephone line at speeds up to 6 Mbps
Broadband XL	•        High speed Internet access over fiber available in portions of our RLEC markets at speeds up to 300 Mbps
Video	•        IPTV-based video services with 300 channels, including 67 high definition, video-on-demand and DVR capability •        Available in new subdivisions and overbuild areas within the RLEC and in one area in each of Lynchburg, Harrisonburg and Staunton, Virginia •        Media Headend Powered by Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform

In addition to our data services, we offer the following voice services to our Competitive and RLEC customers:

Voice Service	•        Business and residential telephone local and long distance service including calling features
Primary Rate ISDN Services	•        High capacity connections between customers’ private branch exchange, or PBX, equipment and public switched telephone network

Sales, Marketing and Customer Care

Sales. We serve our enterprise and carrier customers in the competitive space with our suite of fiber-based strategic data products, which include metro Ethernet, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) , VPN and dedicated Internet access. We have continued to see increased demand for these products across our customer base, particularly as demand for data and mobility services grow. The mission for our sales team is to capitalize on this growing demand by offering customized solutions to our enterprise and carrier customers. Increasingly, the training of our sales force has been focused on moving upstream within our key vertical markets, which include healthcare, education, financial services and government. During 2012, we refined our sales approach and increased the role of our technical team in order to focus on selling long-term secure networking and data solutions.

In 2012, we added experienced leaders to our sales teams and in 2013 we continue to look to add talent to our sales teams opportunistically. Our overall strategy of incrementally shifting resources from the declining legacy voice and access business into our strategic data business also extends to our sales and sales engineering teams. In 2012, we began upgrading our sales technology and deploying mobile devices and applications to key sales people and sales engineers. We believe that the initiative to place mobile sales tools in the sales force will improve sales productivity and enhance the customer experience. We use Salesforce.com to manage our opportunities within all of our sales channels, and additional applications are in development for 2013 to include video conferencing, mapping, and contract execution, all customized on the mobile devices.

In 2013, we intend to enter two new key markets in Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, both of which are contiguous to our current footprint. We are working aggressively to prepare for these two regional launches and expect to compete for market share in our key enterprise verticals and for FTTC installations.

Marketing. Our marketing team is primarily focused on our strategic data business. We have built mapping tools for our website to provide detailed insight into our network footprint. Prospective customers can now go online and pin point their location in proximity to our fiber by typing in an address. We have also recently expanded our marketing department. We believe these actions have significantly upgraded our ability to target customers in key verticals in both our existing and “edge-out” markets that will help drive growth in 2013 and beyond.

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Customer Care. We have continued to refine our customer care teams in support of the multiple touch points for our customers. This includes moving personnel to operations functions in support of a new service delivery team. In 2012, we rolled out a comprehensive “Platinum Care” program to serve our top strategic data clients with an even greater level of customer service. We take a team approach in support of these key clients with a dedicated toll free contact number and assigned personnel by account.

Our Network

We have developed a robust, flexible network allowing us to deliver advanced data, broadband and voice services to enterprise, carrier and residential customers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky.

Our integrated fiber transport network allows us to offer a suite of advanced data and voice services, including, but not limited to, multi-site networking, dedicated Internet and MEF certified Ethernet solutions, high-speed Internet and VoIP services. These are delivered via a network foundation of Cisco optical dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) long haul network communications equipment to deliver high speed wavelength services directly to end customers or as infrastructure for the MPLS Ethernet and high-speed Internet backbone. Network-to-network interconnection points allow us to engage carrier partners to provide end to end service for enterprise and carrier customers.

Our local networks consist of central office digital switches, routers, loop carriers and virtual and physical colocations interconnected primarily with fiber and copper facilities. A mix of fiber optic and copper facilities connect our customers with the core network.

Our network operations center provides technical surveillance of our network using IBM-based network management systems.

Our objective is to leverage and expand our fiber assets in order to capture the growing demand for data and mobility services in both our existing and contiguous markets.

Competition

Our Competitive operations compete primarily with incumbent local exchange carriers (“ILECs”), broadband service providers, incumbent cable operators, and to a lesser extent, other CLECs. We also face competition from potential future market entrants. In the last year, we have seen increasing competition from the cable operators and ILECs for metro-Ethernet services to mid-size businesses. To be competitive, we position our company as a customer-focused and leading edge provider with a full portfolio of broadband and IP-based services and the theme that “our technology comes with people.”

As a result of the rapid growth in broadband traffic, we expect that our competition will increase from market entrants offering FTTC, metro Ethernet solutions and other high-speed data services, including DSL, cable and wireless access. Our competition includes:

• ILECs, including AT&T, Verizon, Frontier, Windstream and CenturyLink;

• national CLECs with extensive fiber assets, including Level 3, Zayo and Time Warner Telecom; and

• national and regional cable operators, including Comcast, Shentel, Cox, Time Warner and Suddenlink.

As the RLEC for Waynesboro, Clifton Forge and Covington and portions of Alleghany, Augusta and Botetourt Counties, Virginia, we have competition from cable companies and are subject to competition from wireless carriers. A portion of residential customers moving into our service area do not purchase landline phone service. Although no CLECs have entered our incumbent markets to compete with us, it is possible that one or more may enter our markets. VoIP based carriers like Vonage could take voice customers from our RLECs using existing broadband connections (such as DSL or cable modem connections). To minimize potential competition in the RLEC markets, we offer fiber-to-the-home, high speed DSL, video over copper and a variety of bundled services for broadband, voice and video.

Employees

As of December 31, 2012, we employed 593 full-time and nine part-time employees. Of these employees, 67 are covered by a collective bargaining agreement that expires June 30, 2014. We believe that we have good relations with our employees.

Access to Public Filings

We routinely post important information on our website at www.lumosnetworks.com. Information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this annual report on Form 10-K. We provide public access to our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to these reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These documents may be accessed free of charge on our website at the following address: http://ir.lumosnetworks.com. These reports are available as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.

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Regulation

The following summary does not describe all present and proposed federal and state legislation and regulations affecting the telecommunications industry. Some legislation and regulations are currently the subject of judicial proceedings, legislative hearings and administrative proposals which could change the manner in which this industry operates. Neither the outcome of any of these developments, nor their potential impact on us, can be predicted at this time. Regulation can change rapidly in the telecommunications industry, and such changes may have an adverse effect on us in the future. See “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this report.

Regulation Overview

Our communications services are subject to varying degrees of federal, state and local regulation. Under the federal Communications Act, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has jurisdiction over interstate and international common carrier services. Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC has jurisdiction over certain aspects of local interconnection terms and rates between carriers.

In addition to FCC regulation, our communications services are regulated to different degrees by state public service commissions and by local authorities. Such local authorities have jurisdiction over public rights-of-way and video and telecommunications franchises.

Our operations are subject to various federal and state laws intended to protect the privacy of customers who subscribe to our services. The FCC has regulations that place restrictions on the permissible uses that we can make of customer-specific information, known as Customer Proprietary Network Information (“CPNI”), received from subscribers and that govern procedures for release of such information and the Federal Trade Commission’s “Red Flag” rules require that companies develop and implement written Identity Theft Prevention programs.

Many of the services we offer are unregulated or subject only to minimal regulation. Internet services are not considered to be common carrier services, although the regulatory treatment of certain Internet services, including VoIP services, is evolving and still uncertain. To date, the FCC has, among other things, directed providers of certain VoIP services to offer E-911 emergency calling capabilities to their subscribers, applied the requirements of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, to these VoIP providers, determined that the VoIP providers are subject to federal universal service assessments and must pay access charges at interstate rates. The FCC has preempted states from exercising entry and related economic regulation of nomadic VoIP providers but the FCC has not preempted state regulation of fixed VoIP service commonly offered by cable operators.

Federal Regulation of Interconnection and Interexchange Services

The Communications Act requires all common carriers to interconnect on a non-discriminatory basis with other carriers, imposes additional requirements on incumbent local exchange carriers (such as our RLEC’s), and imposes even more comprehensive requirements on the largest ILECs. The large ILECs are required to provide to our CLECs and other competitors physical collocation to allow competitors to place qualifying equipment in ILEC central offices; to unbundle some of their services into unbundled network elements (“UNE”) at “forward looking” rates, permit resale of some of their services, provide access to poles, ducts, conduits and rights-of-way, and to establish reciprocal compensation for the transport and termination of local traffic. In order to obtain access to an ILEC network, a CLEC must negotiate an interconnection agreement or “opt-in” to an existing interconnection agreement. These agreements cover, among other items, reciprocal compensation rates and required UNEs. If the parties cannot agree on the terms of an interconnection agreement, the matter is submitted to the applicable state public utility commission or to the FCC, as appropriate, for binding arbitration. The obligations of the large ILECs to provide these network facilities and services are in flux and could be further altered or removed by new legislation, regulations or court order.

ILEC operating entities that serve fewer than 50,000 lines are defined as “rural telephone companies” under the Communications Act and are exempt from the additional requirements applicable to the large ILECs unless and until such exemption is removed by the state regulatory body. Each of our RLEC operations is considered separately and each has this RLEC exemption.

Access Charges and Universal Service

Intercarrier compensation includes regulated interstate and intrastate access charges that we and other ILECs and CLECs receive from long distance carriers for the origination and termination of long distance calls and reciprocal compensation that interconnected local carriers pay to each other for terminating interconnected local and wireless calls.

The FCC has reformed and continues to reform the structure of the federal access charge system. On November 18, 2011, the FCC released a significant order on access reform and USF reform and carriers are in the process of implementing the order. In the order, the FCC adopted a uniform national bill-and-keep framework (in which carriers do not collect or pay access charges or reciprocal compensation) as the ultimate end state for all telecommunications traffic exchanged with any local exchange carrier. Price Cap carriers will be at bill-and-keep in eight years and Rate-of-Return carriers will be at bill-and-keep in 11 years. Multiple parties appealed the FCC’s order. Those appeals were consolidated at the 10^th Circuit Court of Appeals and briefing is ongoing.

In the initial phase of the transition to bill-and-keep, intrastate end office switching rates for terminating traffic, carrier common line charges on terminating traffic, and certain intrastate, transport rates associated with terminating traffic are to be brought to interstate rates “within two steps

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by July 2013.” The first of these two steps was effective on July 1, 2012 and intrastate access charge rates were reduced by approximately half of the difference between intrastate and interstate terminating access charge rates. The FCC has issued a further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to seek comment on, among other things, the treatment/transition for originating access and for the transport elements not included in the initial order. The second step, in which these terminating intrastate access rates will be brought to the interstate levels, will be effective on July 1, 2013.

The FCC order permitted ILECs to implement a new charge on end users to partially offset the loss in access charge revenues, the Access Recovery Charge (“ARC”), effective July 1, 2012. The maximum ARC for residential customers will be $3 per month after six years. Multi-line business customers will have their Subscriber Line Charge and ARC combined capped at $12.20 per line. In addition, RLECs will be able to recover a portion of lost access revenues from a new Connect America Fund (“CAF”).

In the order, the FCC also established an annual cap on the “high cost” portion of USF of $4.5 billion per year in each of the next six years. This $4.5 billion will be the sole funding source for the existing support mechanisms (high-cost loop, switching support, safety net, etc.); and for the CAF. The FCC has designated approximately $2 billion of the $4.5 billion annually from this fund for RLECs through 2017. Our RLECs began receiving payments from the CAF effective July 1, 2012.

The order also affects our Competitive operations. Our CLECs reduced their terminating intrastate access rates effective July 1, 2012 and will reduce those rates to match interstate rates effective July 1, 2013. In addition, our legacy FiberNet operations in West Virginia have been designated as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier and receives USF funding. USF funding for CLECs, including FiberNet, decreased on July 1, 2012 by 20% and will decrease by 20% annually until completely eliminated.

Net Neutrality. The FCC in 2005 adopted a policy statement expressing its view that consumers are entitled to access lawful Internet content and to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement and reasonable network management techniques. Following up on the policy statement, in 2010 the FCC adopted “net neutrality” rules, which it summarized as follows:

• Transparency. Fixed and mobile broadband providers must disclose the network management practices, performance characteristics, and terms and conditions of their broadband services.

• No blocking. Fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications, services or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services; and

• No unreasonable discrimination. Fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic.

The FCC’s net neutrality rules are the subject of an appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

State Regulation of RLEC, CLEC and Interexchange Services

Most states require wireline telecommunications providers to obtain authority from state regulatory commissions prior to offering common carrier services. State regulatory commissions generally regulate RLEC rates for intrastate services and RLECs must file tariffs setting forth the terms, conditions and prices for their intrastate services. Our RLECs are subject to regulation in Virginia by the State Corporation Commission (“SCC”). In addition, the SCC establishes service quality requirements applicable to RLECs, including ours, and resolves disputes involving intrastate communications services.

In its 2010 session, the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation requiring all Virginia local exchange carriers to eliminate carrier common line charges from their interstate access charges. For our two ILECs, the SCC approved the schedule for reducing and eliminating these charges beginning on January 1, 2012 and completely eliminating carrier common line charges by January 1, 2015. Elimination of intrastate terminating carrier common line charges is also part of the FCC’s access reform plan.

In Virginia and West Virginia, CLECs’ intrastate switched access charges are capped at the higher of the CLEC’s interstate switched access charge or the intrastate switched access charge of the ILEC (or the average of all ILECs) providing service in the territory served by the CLEC. We are certificated as a CLEC in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. Although we file tariffs covering our CLEC services, our rates for such CLEC services generally fluctuate based on market conditions.

Local Government Authorizations

Certain governmental authorities require permits to open streets for construction and/or telecommunications franchises to install or expand facilities. Video franchises are also required for our video services. We obtain such permits and franchises as required. We hold video franchises in the City of Waynesboro, Botetourt County, City of Lynchburg, City of Staunton (for the Gypsy Hill Development only), Alleghany County, City of Covington, Town of Clifton Forge, and Town of Iron Gate. All of these are located in Virginia.

Retransmission Consent. Local television stations may require that a video provider obtain “retransmission consent” for carriage of the station’s signal, which can enable a popular local television station to obtain concessions from video providers for the right to carry the station’s signal.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors.

RISK FACTORS

The following risk factors and other information included in this Form 10-K should be carefully considered. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial also may adversely impact our business operations. Our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected by any or all of these risks.

Risks Relating to Our Business

The telecommunications industry is generally characterized by rapid development, introduction of new technologies, substantial regulatory changes and intense competition, any of which could cause us to suffer price reductions, customer losses, reduced operating margins and/or loss of market share.

The telecommunications industry has been, and we believe will continue to be, characterized by several trends, including the following:

• rapid development and introduction of new technologies and services, such as VoIP, high speed data services, or other technologies;

• substantial regulatory change due to the continuing efforts of the FCC to reform intercarrier compensation, to modify USF availability, and to limit availability of UNEs used by CLECs under the Telecommunications Act of 1996;

• increased competition within established markets from current and new market entrants that may provide competing or alternative services;

• an increase in mergers and strategic alliances that allow one telecommunications provider to offer increased services or access wider geographic markets; and

• the blurring of traditional dividing lines between, and the bundling of, different services, such as local telephone, long distance, wireless, video, data and Internet services.

We expect competition to intensify as a result of new competitors and the development of new technologies, products and services. Some or all of these trends may cause us to have to spend significantly more in capital expenditures than we currently anticipate in order to keep existing and to attract new customers. Many of our voice and data competitors, such as cable providers, wireless service providers, Internet access providers and long distance carriers have brand recognition, a national presence and financial, personnel, marketing and other resources that are significantly greater than ours. In addition, due to consolidation and strategic alliances within the telecommunications industry, we cannot predict the number of competitors that will emerge. Such increased competition from existing and new entities could lead to price reductions, loss of customers, reduced operating margins and/or loss of market share.

As competition develops and technology evolves, federal and state regulation of the telecommunications industry continues to change rapidly. We anticipate that this state of regulatory flux will persist in the future, as the FCC and state regulators respond to competitive, technological, and legislative developments by modifying their existing regulations or adopting new ones.

The enactment of adverse regulation or regulatory requirements may slow our growth and have a material adverse effect upon our business, results of operations and financial condition. For a discussion of recent developments in this area, see the “Regulation” section above.

Adverse economic conditions may harm our business.

Economic conditions may not improve or may decline further for the foreseeable future. Unfavorable economic conditions, including the recession and disruptions to the credit and financial markets, could cause customers to slow or delay spending. If demand for our services decreases, our revenues would be adversely affected and churn may increase. In addition, during challenging economic times our customers may face issues gaining timely access to sufficient credit, which may impair the ability of our customers to pay for services they have purchased. Any of the above could have a material effect on our business, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

We are also susceptible to risks associated with the potential financial instability of the vendors and third parties on which we rely to provide services or to which we outsource certain functions. The same economic conditions that may affect our customers could also adversely affect vendors and third parties and lead to significant increases in prices, reduction in quality or the bankruptcy of our vendors or third parties upon which we rely. Any interruption in the services provided by our vendors or by third parties could adversely affect our business, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

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We may not be able to successfully implement our strategy and thereby sustain our revenue and cash flow growth.

We must grow our business and revenue in order to generate sufficient cash flow to fund our operating requirements. We have pursued several growth initiatives including:

• Increasing network investments in our core markets;

• Investing in network expansion into new adjacent geographic markets;

• Building fiber to wireless carrier cell sites; and

• Launching new products and services that meet customers’ data and IP needs.

Our ability to manage this expansion depends on many factors, including our ability to:

• Attract new customers and sell additional services to existing customers by effectively implementing our sales and marketing plans;

• Complete customer installations in a timely manner to meet customer demands;

• Successfully train our sales force to adapt to evolutionary demand for advanced data service;

• Efficiently manage our capital expansion plans;

• Manage increased competition from other data service providers in existing and new markets; and

• Remain competitive with customer pricing and service expectations.

Any significant impairment of our goodwill or intangible assets would lead to a decrease in our assets and a reduction in net operating performance.

As of December 31, 2012, we had goodwill and other intangible assets of approximately $135.2 million (approximately 26% of total assets), which amount is reflective of a reduction of approximately $65 million in 2011 in connection with asset impairment charges totaling $86 million. If the impact or the timing of ongoing regulatory reform actions are significantly different than what we anticipate or if there are other regulatory or operating changes to our business, we may be forced to record an additional impairment charge, which would lead to a decrease in the company’s assets and reduction in net income. We test goodwill and other indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment annually or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate an impairment may have occurred. If the testing performed indicates that impairment has occurred, we are required to record an impairment charge for the difference between the carrying value of the goodwill or indefinite lived intangible asset and the implied fair value of the asset in the period in which the determination is made. The testing of goodwill and indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment requires us to make significant estimates about our future performance and cash flows, as well as other assumptions. These estimates can be affected by numerous factors, including changes in economic, industry or market conditions, changes in underlying business operations, future reporting unit operating performance, existing or new product market acceptance, changes in competition or changes in technologies. Any changes in key assumptions, or actual performance compared with those assumptions, about our business and our future prospects or other assumptions could affect the fair value of one or more of the indefinite-lived intangible assets or of the reporting units, resulting in an additional impairment charge.

Our rural telephone company subsidiaries are subject to several regulatory regimes and consequently face substantial regulatory burdens and uncertainties.

The SCC imposes service quality obligations on our rural telephone company subsidiaries and requires us to adhere to prescribed service quality standards, but many of our competitors are not subject to these standards. These standards measure the performance of various aspects of our business. If we fail to meet these standards, the SCC may impose fines or penalties or take other actions that may impact our revenues or increase our costs. The FCC may also impose fines and forfeitures for failure to comply with FCC rules and requirements.

Many of our competitors are unregulated or less heavily regulated than we are. For example, VoIP technology is used to carry voice communications services over a broadband Internet connection. The FCC has ruled that VoIP services are jurisdictionally interstate and that some VoIP arrangements (those not using the Public Switched Telephone Network) are not subject to regulation as telephone services. In 2006, the FCC expanded the base of USF contributions by extending universal service contribution obligations to providers of VoIP service interconnected to the Public Switched Telephone Network. The United States Supreme Court upheld the FCC’s ruling that cable broadband Internet services are not subject to common carrier telecommunications regulation.

Regulatory developments at the FCC and the Virginia SCC will reduce revenues that our rural telephone company and Competitive subsidiaries receive from access charges.

For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, approximately $30.0 million and $33.0 million, respectively, of our rural telephone company subsidiaries’ revenues came from access charges a portion of which were paid to us by long distance carriers for originating and terminating calls in the areas we serve. These revenues are highly profitable for us.

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The FCC has reformed and continues to reform the structure of the federal access charge system. On November 18, 2011, the FCC released a significant order on access reform and USF reform and carriers are in the process of implementing that order. In the order, the FCC adopted a uniform national bill-and-keep framework (in which carriers do not collect or pay access charges or reciprocal compensation) as the ultimate end state for all telecommunications traffic exchanged with any local exchange carrier. Price Cap carriers will be at bill-and-keep in eight years and Rate-of-Return carriers will be at bill-and-keep in 11 years. Multiple parties appealed the FCC’s order. Those appeals were consolidated at the 10^th Circuit Court of Appeals and briefing is ongoing.

In the initial phase of the transition to bill-and-keep, intrastate end office switching rates for terminating traffic, carrier common line charges on terminating traffic, and certain intrastate, transport rates associated with terminating traffic are to be brought to interstate rates “within two steps by July 2013.”

The FCC order permitted ILECs to implement a new charge on end users to partially offset the loss in access charge revenues, the Access Recovery Charge (“ARC”), effective July 1, 2012. The maximum ARC for residential customers will be $3 per month after six years. Multi-line business customers will have their Subscriber Line Charge and ARC combined capped at $12.20 per line.

The order also affects our Competitive operations. Our CLECs reduced their terminating intrastate access rates effective July 1, 2012 and will reduce those rates to match interstate rates effective July 1, 2013 In addition, our legacy FiberNet operations in West Virginia have been designated as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier and receives USF funding. USF funding for CLECs, including Fibernet, decreased on July 1, 2012 by 20% and will decrease by 20% annually until eliminated.

Regulatory developments at the FCC will reduce revenues that our rural telephone company subsidiaries receive from the federal Universal Service Fund, the Connect America Fund or other fund allocations.

For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, we received approximately $4.3 million and $5.0 million, respectively, in payments from the federal Universal Service Fund in connection with our rural telephone company subsidiaries’ operations. Additionally, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, we received approximately $2.3 million (net) and $2.6 million (net), respectively, from other National Exchange Carrier Association, or NECA, pool distributions to compensate us for a portion of our interstate costs.

Our RLECs are able to recover a portion of lost access revenues from a new Connect America Fund (“CAF”). In 2012, we received approximately $3.1 million from the CAF. Regulatory changes could impact the amount and timing of the revenues received from these funds in the future.

We have substantial indebtedness, which could restrict our ability to pay dividends and have a negative impact on our financing options and liquidity position.

In connection with the Business Separation, we borrowed $340 million under a senior secured credit facility with certain financial institutions and used the proceeds to fund a working capital cash reserve and to pay $315 million to NTELOS Inc., a subsidiary of NTELOS. Our indebtedness under this facility ($311.0 million at December 31, 2012) carries interest expense of approximately $12 million annually.

Our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial health and business and future operations by, among other things:

• making it more difficult for us to satisfy our obligations with respect to our indebtedness;

• increasing our vulnerability to adverse economic and industry conditions by making it more difficult for us to react quickly to changing conditions;

• limiting our ability to obtain any additional financing we may need to operate, develop and expand our business;

• requiring us to dedicate a substantial portion of any cash flows from operations to service our debt, which reduces the funds available for operations and future business opportunities;

• potentially making us more highly leveraged than our competitors, which could potentially decrease our ability to compete in our industry;

• exposing us to risks inherent in interest rate fluctuations because some of our borrowings are at variable rates of interest, which could result in higher interest expense in the event of increases in interest rates; and

• limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business, and the industry in which we operate.

The ability to make payments on our debt will depend upon our future operating performance, which is subject to general economic and competitive conditions and to financial, business and other factors, many of which we cannot control. If the cash flows from our subsidiaries’ operating activities are insufficient to service our debt obligations, we may take actions, such as delaying or reducing capital expenditures, reducing or eliminating our quarterly cash dividend, attempting to restructure or refinance our debt, selling assets or operations or seeking additional equity capital. Any or all of these actions may not be sufficient to allow us to service our debt obligations. Further, we may be unable to take any of these actions on satisfactory terms, in a timely manner or at all.

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Our senior secured credit facility imposes operating and financial restrictions, which may prevent us from capitalizing on business opportunities and taking some corporate actions.

Our senior secured credit facility imposes operating and financial restrictions on our subsidiaries. These restrictions generally:

• restrict our subsidiaries’ ability to incur additional indebtedness;

• restrict our subsidiaries from entering into transactions with affiliates;

• restrict our subsidiaries’ ability to consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of their assets;

• impose financial covenants relating to the business of our subsidiaries, including leverage and interest coverage ratios;

• require our subsidiaries to use a portion of “excess cash flow” (as defined in the debt agreement) to repay indebtedness if our leverage ratio exceeds specified levels;

• restrict our subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends or make advances to us, which will restrict our ability to pay dividends; and

• restrict our subsidiaries’ ability to agree to liens on assets or agreements (such as leases).

We cannot assure you that those covenants will not adversely affect our ability to pay dividends or repurchase stock, finance our future operations or capital needs or pursue available business opportunities. A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default with respect to the senior secured credit facility. If a default occurs, our indebtedness under the senior secured credit facility could be declared immediately due and payable. As a result of general economic conditions, conditions in the lending markets, the results of our business or for any other reason, we may elect or be required to amend or refinance our indebtedness, at or prior to maturity, or enter into additional agreements for senior indebtedness.

If interest rates increase, our net income could be negatively affected.

Our substantial debt exposes us to adverse changes in interest rates. We cannot predict whether interest rates for long term debt will increase, and thus, we cannot assure you that our future interest expense will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows. We did enter into interest rate hedges on 50% of the facility through 2015 in order to mitigate this exposure.

Lumos Networks and other industry participants are frequently involved in disputes over issues that, if decided adversely to us, could harm our financial and operational prospects.

We anticipate that we will continue to be subject to risks associated with the resolution of various disputes, lawsuits, arbitrations and proceedings affecting our business. These issues include the administration and enforcement of existing interconnection agreements and tariffs, the terms of new interconnection agreements, operating performance obligations and intercarrier compensation. We also may be included in proceedings and arbitrations before state and regulatory commissions, private arbitration organizations, and courts over many issues that will be important to our financial and operation success. While we believe we have adequate reserves for current disputes, the results of these disputes are inherently unpredictable.

Our Competitive operations face substantial competition and uncertainty relating to their interconnection agreements with the ILEC networks and Pole Attachment Agreements with ILECs and with electric utilities in the markets we serve.

Our Competitive operations compete primarily with incumbent local exchange carriers, or ILECs, including Verizon, Frontier Communications Corporation (“Frontier”) and CenturyLink, and, to a lesser extent, CLECs, including Level 3, Zayo, Windstream and Comcast, Cox and other cable companies. We will continue to face competition from other current and future market entrants.

We have interconnection agreements with the ILEC networks covering each market in which our Competitive operations serve. Based on customer growth and our assessment of growth opportunities in these markets, we purchase wholesale voice lines, data circuits and access to collocation facilities under these agreements. From time to time, we are required to negotiate amendments to, extensions of, or replacements for these agreements. Additionally, we may be required to negotiate new interconnection agreements in order to enter new markets in the future. We may not be able to successfully negotiate amendments to existing agreements, negotiate new interconnection agreements, renew our existing interconnection agreements, opt in to new agreements or successfully arbitrate replacement agreements for interconnection on terms and conditions acceptable to us. Our inability to do so would adversely affect our existing operations and opportunities to expand our Competitive business in existing and new markets. If rates became unfavorable or we could no longer access collocation facilities, we could be forced to alter our service delivery which could reduce our customer base. As the FCC modifies, changes and implements rules related to unbundling of ILEC network elements and collocation of competitive facilities at ILEC central offices, we generally have to renegotiate our interconnection agreements to implement those new or modified rules.

Under federal law, our Competitive operations have a right to use the poles, ducts, and conduits of investor-owned utilities (electric and telephone) at regulated rates for our cables, including fiber optic facilities. Some of the poles we use are exempt from federal regulation because they are owned by utility cooperatives and municipal entities. If the rates, terms and conditions imposed by utilities are unreasonable, or if the utilities do not allow us access to the poles, ducts, and conduits in a timely manner, our business, financial results or financial condition could suffer.

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Our competitors have substantial business advantages over our Competitive operations, and we may not be able to compete successfully.

Verizon and other large ILECs such as Frontier and CenturyLink dominate the current market for business and consumer telecommunications services. These companies represent the dominant competition in much of our target service areas, and we expect this competition to intensify. The large ILECs have established brand names, can diversify their risks across markets nationwide, possess sufficient capital to upgrade existing and deploy new equipment, own their telephone lines and can bundle digital data services with their existing analog voice services and other services, such as long-distance, wireless and video services, to achieve economies of scale in serving customers. Moreover, the large ILECs are aggressively implementing “win-back” programs to regain access line customers lost to competitors and use bundled services to assist in those programs. We pose a competitive risk to the large ILECs that serve our Competitive markets and, as both our competitors and our suppliers, they have little motivation to respond in a timely manner to our requests or to assist in the enhancement of the services we provide to our Competitive customers.

We face substantial competition in our Internet and data services business and face regulatory uncertainty, each of which may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

We currently offer our Internet and data services in rural markets and face competition from other Internet and data service providers, including cable companies. The Internet industry is characterized by the absence of significant barriers to entry and rapid growth in Internet usage among customers. As a result, we expect that our competition will increase from market entrants offering high-speed data services, including DSL, cable and wireless access. Our competition includes cable modem services offered by cable providers; ILECs, such as Verizon, Frontier and CenturyLink in our Competitive territories; and local, regional and national ISPs, both wireline and wireless, including Zayo and Windstream. In addition, wireless carriers are offering 3G and 4G services for internet access.

Many of our competitors have financial resources, corporate backing, customer bases, marketing programs and brand names that are greater than ours. Additionally, competitors may charge less than we do for Internet services, causing us to reduce, or preventing us from raising, our fees.

Our rural local telephone company subsidiaries face substantial competition from competitors that are less heavily regulated than we are, which could increase our expenses or force us to lower prices, causing our revenues and operating results to decline.

As the rural local telephone companies for the western Virginia cities of Waynesboro and Covington, and portions of Alleghany, Augusta and Botetourt Counties, Virginia, we currently compete with a number of different providers, many of which are unregulated or less heavily regulated than we are. Our rural telephone company subsidiaries qualify as rural local telephone companies under the Telecommunications Act and are, therefore, exempt from many of the most burdensome obligations of the Telecommunications Act, such as the obligation to sell unbundled elements of our network to our competitors at “forward-looking” prices that the Telecommunications Act places on larger carriers. Nevertheless, our rural telephone company subsidiaries face significant competition, particularly from competitors that do not need to rely on access to our network to reach their customers.

Wireless carriers, cable companies and other VoIP providers are able to compete with our rural telephone company subsidiaries even though the “rural exemption” under the Telecommunications Act is in place. If our rural exemption were removed, CLECs could more easily enter our rural telephone company subsidiaries’ markets. Moreover, the regulatory environment governing wireline local operations has been, and we believe will likely continue to be, very liberal in its approach to promoting competition and network access.

Consistent with the experience of other rural telephone companies, our rural telephone company subsidiaries have experienced a reduction in access lines caused by, among other things, wireless competition, cable competition and business customer migration from Centrex services to IP-based and other PBX services using fewer lines. As penetration rates of these technologies increase in our markets, our revenues could decline. Our rural telephone company subsidiaries experienced a net loss of approximately 2,000 access lines in the year ended December 31, 2012, or 6.0% of our access lines served at the end of 2011. A continued net loss of access lines would impact our revenues and operating results.

Our rights to the use of fiber that are part of our network may be affected by the ability to continue long term contracts and the financial stability of our Indefeasible Rights to Use fiber providers.

As of December 31, 2012, approximately 83% of our approximately 5,800 mile long-haul fiber network is under long term leases or Indefeasible Rights to Use, or IRU, agreements that provide us access to fiber owned by other network providers. These agreements are generally long term, with less than 2% of the IRUs expiring within the next five years and none expiring in 2013. In these agreements, the network owner is responsible for network maintenance for which we pay such network owners. If our network provider under IRU agreements has financial troubles, it could adversely affect our costs, especially maintenance costs and ability to deliver service. We could also incur material expenses if we were required to relocate to alternative network assets.

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If we cannot obtain and maintain necessary rights-of-way for our network, our operations may be interrupted and we would likely face increased costs.

We need to obtain and maintain the necessary rights-of-way for our network from governmental and quasi-governmental entities and third parties, such as railroads, utilities, state highway authorities, local governments, transit authorities and private landowners. We may not be successful in obtaining and maintaining these rights-of-way or obtaining them on acceptable terms. Some agreements relating to rights-of-way may be short-term or revocable at will, and we cannot be certain that we will continue to have access to existing rights-of-way after the governing agreements are terminated or expire. If any of our right-of-way agreements were terminated or could not be renewed, we may be forced to remove our network facilities from the affected areas, relocate or abandon our networks. This would interrupt our operations and force us to find alternative rights-of-way and make unexpected capital expenditures. In addition, our failure to maintain the necessary rights-of-way, franchises, easements, licenses and permits may result in an event of default under our credit agreement and may subject us to legal complaints or claims.

Losses or a decrease in usage from certain key customers may result in lower revenues or higher expenses.

We generated approximately 10% and 9% of our operating revenue from Verizon in the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. In addition, we have substantial business relationships with several other telecommunications carriers. Carriers in the aggregate accounted for approximately 38% of our operating revenues for each of the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. If we were to lose Verizon or one of these other customers, our revenues would decline, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

We may require additional capital to respond to customer demand and to competition, and if we fail to raise the capital or fail to have continued access to the capital required to fund our strategic growth plan, we may experience a material adverse effect on our business.

We require additional capital to fund our strategic growth plans and for general working capital needs. Our aggregate capital expenditures for 2012 were approximately $60 million, approximately 75% of which were for success-based customer and network expansion and the remaining 25% was for infrastructure upgrades, network sustainment and internal IT projects. We estimate that our capital expenditures for 2013 will be approximately $65 million to approximately $70 million.

Because of our intensely competitive market, we may be required to expand the technical requirements of our network or to build out additional areas within our territories that could result in increased capital expenditures. Any such unplanned capital expenditures may adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. If we are unable to obtain additional needed financing, it may prohibit us from making these capital expenditures or making other investments in our business, which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations by limiting our growth potential.

We rely on a limited number of key suppliers and vendors for timely supply of equipment and services relating to our network infrastructure. If these suppliers or vendors experience problems or favor our competitors, we could fail to obtain sufficient quantities of the products and services we require to operate our businesses successfully.

We depend on a limited number of suppliers and vendors for equipment and services relating to our network infrastructure. If these suppliers experience interruptions or other problems delivering these network components on a timely basis, our subscriber growth and operating results could suffer significantly. Our initial choice of a network infrastructure supplier can, where proprietary technology of the supplier is an integral component of the network, cause us effectively to be locked into one or a few suppliers for key network components. As a result, we have become reliant upon a limited number of network equipment manufacturers, including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. If alternative suppliers and vendors become necessary, we may not be able to obtain satisfactory and timely replacement supplies on economically attractive terms, or at all.

A system failure could cause delays or interruptions of service, which could cause us to lose customers.

To be successful, we must provide our customers reliable network service. Some of the risks to our network and infrastructure include: physical damage to outside plant facilities; power surges or outages; software defects; human error; disruptions beyond our control, including disruptions caused by terrorist activities or severe weather; and failures in operational support systems.

Network disruptions cause interruptions in service and reduced capacity for customers, either of which cause us to incur additional expenses and may cause us to lose customers.

We are dependent on third-party vendors for our information and billing systems. Any significant disruption in our relationship with these vendors could increase our cost and affect our operating efficiencies.

Sophisticated information and billing systems are vital to our ability to monitor and control costs, bill customers, process customer orders, provide customer service and achieve operating efficiencies. We currently rely on internal systems and third-party vendors to provide all of our information and processing systems. Some of our billing, customer service and management information systems have been developed by third parties and may not perform as anticipated or the third parties may experience interruptions or other problems delivering these systems. In addition, our plans for developing and implementing our information and billing systems rely to some extent on the delivery of products and services by third-party vendors. Our right to use these systems is dependent upon license agreements with third-party vendors. Some of these agreements are cancelable

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by the vendor, and the cancellation or nonrenewable nature of these agreements could impair our ability to process customer information and/or bill our customers. Since we rely on third-party vendors to provide some of these services, any switch in vendors could be costly and affect operating efficiencies.

The implementation of our business strategy is dependent upon our ability to maintain, expand and update our information technology infrastructure in response to growth and changing business needs.

Our business relies on our data, billing and other operational and financial reporting and business systems. To effectively implement our business strategy, we will need to continue to maintain and, in some cases, make upgrades to modernize our information technology systems and infrastructure, which can be costly. Our inability to maintain, expand or upgrade our technology infrastructure could have adverse consequences, which could include service or billing interruptions, the diversion of critical resources and inhibiting our growth plans due to an inability to scale effectively.

If we fail to extend or renegotiate our collective bargaining agreements with our labor union when they expire, or if our unionized employees were to engage in a strike or other work stoppage, our business and operating results could be materially harmed.

We are a party to collective bargaining agreements with our labor union, which represented 67 employees as of December 31, 2012. Although we believe that relations with our employees are satisfactory, no assurance can be given that we will be able to successfully extend or renegotiate our collective bargaining agreements when they expire. If we fail to extend or renegotiate our collective bargaining agreements, if disputes with our union arise, or if our unionized workers engage in a strike or a work stoppage, we could experience a significant disruption of operations or incur higher ongoing labor costs, either of which could have an adverse effect to the business. Our collective bargaining agreement expires June 30, 2014.

If or when we lose a member or members of our senior management, our business may be adversely affected.

The success of our business is largely dependent on our senior management team, as well as on our ability to attract and retain other highly qualified technical and management personnel, including talented sales personnel.

We believe that there is, and will continue to be, intense competition for qualified personnel in the telecommunications industry, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to attract and retain the personnel necessary for the development of our business. The unexpected loss of key personnel or the failure to attract additional personnel as required could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

Unauthorized use of, or interference with, our network could disrupt service and increase our costs.

We may incur costs associated with the unauthorized use of our network including administrative and capital costs associated with detecting, monitoring and reducing the incidence of fraud. Fraudulent use of our network may impact interconnection costs, capacity costs, administrative costs, fraud prevention costs and payments to other carriers for fraudulent use.

Security breaches related to our physical facilities, computer networks, and informational databases may cause harm to our business and reputation and result in a loss of customers.

Our physical facilities and information systems may be vulnerable to physical break-ins, computer viruses, theft, attacks by hackers, or similar disruptive problems. If hackers gain improper access to our databases, they may be able to steal, publish, delete or modify confidential personal information concerning our subscribers. In addition, misuse of our customer information could result in more substantial harms perpetrated by third parties. This could damage our business and reputation, and result in a loss of customers.

Our future financial performance may be worse than the performance reflected in our historical financial information included in this annual report on Form 10-K.

Some of the historical financial information we have included in this annual report on Form 10-K does not reflect what our results of operations, financial position and cash flows would have been had we been an independent company during the periods presented or may not be indicative of what our results of operations, financial position and cash flows may be in the future as an independent company. This is primarily a result of the following four factors:

• Prior to the Business Separation, our business was operated by NTELOS as part of its broader corporate organization, rather than as an independent company. NTELOS or one of its affiliates performed various corporate functions for us, including, but not limited to, tax administration, treasury activities, accounting, information technology services, human resources, legal, ethics and compliance program administration, investor relations, certain governance functions (including internal audit) and external financial reporting. Our historical and pro forma financial statements reflect allocations of corporate expenses from NTELOS for these and similar functions. These allocations may be more or less than the comparable expenses we would have incurred had we operated as an independent, publicly-traded company;

• Some or our historical financial information does not reflect the increased level of debt and the related increase in interest expense that we incurred as part of the Business Separation;

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• Prior to the Business Separation, we shared economies of scope and scale in costs, employees, vendor relationships and customer relationships with the other businesses of NTELOS. The short-term transition agreements that govern certain relationships between us and NTELOS may not capture all the benefits our business enjoyed as a result of being integrated with the other businesses of NTELOS. The loss of some or all of these benefits could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition; and

• Other significant changes in our cost structure, management, financing and business operations as a result of our operation as a company separate from NTELOS could impact our financial performance.

• Many of the services that were previously covered in transition services and other agreements with NTELOS, which were negotiated in the context of our separation from NTELOS while we were still part of NTELOS and, accordingly, may not reflect terms that would have been reached between unaffiliated parties, are now being provided internally or by unaffiliated third-parties or will be in the future. We expect that, in some instances, we are incurring or will incur higher costs in the future to obtain such services previously provided under the agreements with NTELOS. The amount and timing of when we incur such additional expenses may increase the variability of our earnings and cash flows. If we are unable to lower other expenses or increase revenues, these additional expenses also will lower our earnings and our cash flows.

For these reasons, our future financial performance may be worse than the performance implied by the historical financial information we have presented in this annual report on Form 10-K.

For additional information about the past financial performance of our business and the basis of the presentation of the historical combined financial statements, see “Selected Combined Financial Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and the historical consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.

We may be unable to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve from our separation from NTELOS or our separation from NTELOS could adversely affect our business and profitability due to our loss of NTELOS’s brand and reputation.

As an independent, publicly-traded company, we believe that our business has already benefited from and will continue to benefit from, among other things, allowing us to pursue the business strategies that best suit our long-term interests, to more efficiently develop and finance expansion plans, to appeal to a different investor base, to create effective incentives for our management and employees that are more closely tied to our business performance and to effectively advocate with respect to regulatory matters without internal corporate conflict. However, as a separate company from NTELOS, we may be more susceptible to market fluctuation and other adverse events. In addition, we may not be able to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve as an independent company in the time we expect, if at all. For example, it is possible that investors and securities analysts will not place a greater value on our business as an independent company than on our business as a part of NTELOS.

Furthermore, as a business unit of NTELOS, we previously marketed our products and services using the “NTELOS” brand name and logo, and we believe the association with NTELOS provided us with goodwill among our customers due to NTELOS’s regionally recognized brands and perceived high-quality products and services. We may not be able to achieve or maintain comparable name recognition or status under our new “Lumos” brand, which could adversely affect our ability to attract and retain customers, resulting in reduced sales and revenues.

If the Distribution does not qualify as a tax-free transaction, tax could be imposed on NTELOS and we may be required to indemnify NTELOS for such tax.

If the Distribution were not to be tax-free to NTELOS, NTELOS would be required to recognize gain in an amount up to the fair market value of our common stock that NTELOS distributed on the distribution date.

Furthermore, events subsequent to the Distribution could cause NTELOS to recognize gain on the Distribution. For example, under Code Section 355(e), even minimal acquisitions of either our equity securities or NTELOS’s equity securities that are deemed to be part of a plan or a series of related transactions that include the Distribution could cause NTELOS to recognize gain on the Distribution.

Under the tax matters agreement entered into between NTELOS and us, we are generally required to indemnify NTELOS against any tax resulting from the Distribution to the extent that such tax resulted from any of the following events (among others): (1) an acquisition of all or a portion of our stock or assets, whether by merger or otherwise, (2) any negotiations, understandings, agreements or arrangements with respect to transactions or events that cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a 50% or greater interest in Lumos Networks, (3) certain other actions or failures to act by us, or (4) any breach by us of certain of our representations or undertakings. Our indemnification obligations to NTELOS and its subsidiaries, officers and directors are not limited by any maximum amount.

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We are agreeing to certain restrictions to preserve the tax-free treatment of the Distribution to NTELOS, which may reduce our strategic and operating flexibility.

To preserve the tax-free treatment to NTELOS of the Distribution, under the tax matters agreement that we entered into with NTELOS, we are prohibited from taking or failing to take any action that prevents the Distribution and related transactions from being tax-free. Further, for the two-year period following the Distribution, we may be prohibited, except in specified circumstances, from: entering into any transaction resulting in the acquisition of 40% or more of our stock or 60% or more of our assets, whether by merger or otherwise; merging, consolidating or liquidating; issuing equity securities beyond certain thresholds; repurchasing our common stock; and ceasing to actively conduct our wireline business.

These restrictions may limit our ability to pursue strategic transactions or engage in new business or other transactions that may maximize the value of our business.

The agreements that we entered into with NTELOS may involve, or may appear to involve, conflicts of interest.

In connection with the Business Separation, we entered into certain agreements with NTELOS to provide a framework for our initial relationship with NTELOS following the Business Separation. We negotiated these agreements with NTELOS while we were still a wholly owned subsidiary of NTELOS. Accordingly, our executive officers and some of our directors were employees, officers or directors of NTELOS or its subsidiaries at the time of the negotiations and, as such, had an obligation to serve the interests of NTELOS and its subsidiaries. As a result, they could be viewed as having had a conflict of interest.

Certain of our officers and directors may have actual or potential conflicts of interest because of their cross officerships, directorships and stock ownership with NTELOS.

We continue to have overlap in directors with NTELOS, which may lead to conflicting interests. James A. Hyde, the Chief Executive Officer and President of NTELOS, is serving on our board of directors and served as our Chief Executive Officer from November 1, 2011 through April 26, 2012. Our board of directors also includes representatives of Quadrangle Capital Partners LLP and certain of its affiliates (“Quadrangle”) who are members of the board of directors of NTELOS. Mr. Hyde and the members of our board of directors who overlap with NTELOS have fiduciary duties to both NTELOS’s and our stockholders. These individuals may have actual or apparent conflicts of interest with respect to matters involving or affecting each company. This arrangement may also subject us to regulation under state and federal affiliated interest’s regulatory requirements.

Because of their current or former positions with NTELOS, certain of our directors and executive officers may continue to own shares of NTELOS common stock and the individual holdings may be significant for some of these individuals compared to their total assets. This ownership may create, or, may create the appearance of, conflicts of interest when these directors and officers are faced with decisions that could have different implications for NTELOS and Lumos Networks.

For example, potential conflicts of interest could arise in connection with the resolution of any dispute that may arise between us and NTELOS regarding the terms of the agreements governing the Business Separation and the relationship thereafter between the companies. Potential conflicts of interest could also arise if we enter into additional commercial arrangements with NTELOS in the future.

In connection with our separation from NTELOS, NTELOS will indemnify us for certain liabilities and we will indemnify NTELOS for certain liabilities. If we are required to indemnify NTELOS, we may need to divert cash to meet those obligations and our financial position could be negatively impacted. In the case of NTELOS’s indemnity, there can be no assurance that the indemnity will be sufficient to insure us against the full amount of such liabilities, or as to NTELOS’s ability to satisfy its indemnification obligations in the future.

Pursuant to the separation and distribution agreement and certain other agreements with NTELOS, NTELOS agreed to indemnify us from certain liabilities, and we agreed to indemnify NTELOS for certain liabilities, in each case for uncapped amounts. Indemnities that we may be required to provide NTELOS are not subject to any cap, may be significant and could negatively impact our business, particularly indemnities relating to our actions that could impact the tax-free nature of the Distribution. Third-parties could also seek to hold us responsible for any of the liabilities that NTELOS has agreed to retain. Further, there can be no assurance that the indemnity from NTELOS will be sufficient to protect us against the full amount of such liabilities, or that NTELOS will be able to fully satisfy its indemnification obligations. Moreover, even if we ultimately succeed in recovering from NTELOS any amounts for which we are held liable, we may be temporarily required to bear these losses ourselves. Each of these risks could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

The Quadrangle entities continue to have significant influence over our business and could delay, deter or prevent a change of control, change in management or business combination that may not be beneficial to our stockholders and as a result, may depress the market price of our stock.

As of December 31, 2012, Quadrangle beneficially owns approximately 26% of our outstanding common stock. Additionally, in accordance with a shareholders agreement between Quadrangle and us, three of the eight directors that will serve on our board of directors are representatives or designees of Quadrangle. By virtue of such stock ownership and representation on the board of directors, Quadrangle will have a significant influence over day-to-day corporate and management policies and all matters submitted to our stockholders, including the election of the directors,

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and may exercise significant control over our business, policies and affairs. Quadrangle’s interests as a stockholder may not always coincide with the interests of other stockholders. Additionally, such concentration of voting power could have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change of control, change in management or business combination that might otherwise be beneficial to our stockholders and as a result, may depress the market price of our stock.

Our stock price may decline due to the large number of shares eligible for future sale.

Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock, or the possibility of such sales, may adversely affect the market price of our common stock. These sales may also make it more difficult for us to raise capital through the issuance of equity securities at a time and at a price we deem appropriate.

In our shareholders agreement with Quadrangle, we have granted Quadrangle the right to require us to register their shares of our common stock, representing approximately 5.7 million shares of our common stock. Accordingly, the number of shares subject to registration rights is substantial and the sale of these shares and any other shares with tag-along registration rights may have a negative impact on the market price for our common stock.

Provisions in our charter documents and the General Corporation Law of Delaware could discourage potential acquisition proposals, could delay, deter or prevent a change in control and could limit the price certain investors might be willing to pay for our common stock.

Certain provisions of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, the state in which we are organized, and our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may inhibit a change of control not approved by our board of directors or changes in the composition of our board of directors, which could result in the entrenchment of current management. These provisions include:

• advance notice requirements for stockholder proposals and director nominations;

• limitations on the ability of stockholders to amend, alter or repeal our bylaws;

• limitations on the removal of directors;

• the inability of the stockholders to act by written consent; and

• the authority of the board of directors to issue, without stockholder approval, preferred stock with such terms as the board of directors may determine and additional shares of our common stock.

A portion of our current investor base may be required to sell our stock.

A portion of our common stock is held by index funds tied to broad stock indices in which we are included as a component. If at any time we are not included as a component in those indices, the corresponding index funds will likely be required to sell their shares of our common stock and the price of our common stock could be depressed by those sales.

We may not be able to pay dividends on our common stock in the future.

We intend to pay regular quarterly dividends on our common stock. However, any decision to declare future dividends will be made at the discretion of the board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, cash requirements, investment opportunities, financial condition, contractual restrictions, and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. We are a holding company that does not operate any business of our own. As a result, we are dependent on cash dividends and distributions and other transfers from our subsidiaries to make dividend payments to our stockholders. Amounts that can be made available to us to pay cash dividends or repurchase stock are permitted by our credit agreement within the parameters of a restricted payment basket.

Our certificate of incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain litigation that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with the Company.

Our certificate of incorporation provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our certificate of incorporation or bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Our certificate of incorporation further provides that any person or entity purchasing or acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions described above. This forum selection provision in our certificate of incorporation may limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with the Company.

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

None.

Item 2. Properties.

We are headquartered in Waynesboro, Virginia and own offices and facilities in a number of locations within our operating markets. We believe that our current facilities are adequate to meet our needs in our existing markets for the foreseeable future. The table below provides the location, description and approximate square footage of our material owned properties.

Location	Property Description	Approximate Square Footage
Harrisonburg, VA	Competitive POP		2,500
Troutville, VA	Switch and Video Headend Building		11,400
Clifton Forge, VA	Switch Building		12,000
Covington, VA	Service Center		13,000
Waynesboro, VA	Service Center		20,000
Daleville, VA	Regional Operations Center		21,000
Covington, VA	Switch Building		32,000
Waynesboro, VA	Corporate Headquarters		30,000
Waynesboro, VA	Switch Building		33,920
Daleville, VA	Service Center		9,400

We also lease the following material properties:

• Our Charleston, West Virginia regional operations center (wireline switching) under a sub-lease from NTELOS Inc. for approximately 3,200 square feet of this space;

• Our Charleston, West Virginia switch building under a lease agreement by and between Nelson Trust and FiberNet, LLC dated April 19, 2005; and

• Our Charleston, West Virginia office and switch building under a lease agreement by and between Williams Land Company and Mountaineer Telecommunications, LLC dated April 12, 2005.

Effective December 31, 2012, we terminated our lease agreements with The Layman Family, LLC for the Daleville, VA facility that had previously been used as our customer care facility and with Williams Land Company for the Charleston, WV office building and consolidated these operations with our other nearby facilities.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

We are involved in routine litigation in the ordinary course of our business, including litigation involving disputes relating to our billings to other carriers for access to our network (see Note 13 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data). We do not believe that any pending or threatened litigation of which we are aware will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not applicable.

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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

Market Information

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “LMOS.” On March 1, 2013, the last reported sale price for our common stock was $11.31 per share.

Our common stock has been traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “LMOS” since November 1, 2011. Prior to that time, there was no established public trading market for our common stock. The following table sets forth the high and low prices per share of our common stock and the cash dividends declared per common share for each of the quarters in 2012 and for the fourth quarter of 2011, which correspond to our quarterly fiscal periods for financial reporting purposes:

	Stock Price per Share				Cash Dividends Declared per Common Share
	High		Low
2012:
First Quarter	$	18.18	$	10.13	$	0.14
Second Quarter		10.76		7.65		0.14
Third Quarter		9.86		7.50		0.14
Fourth Quarter		10.54		7.61		0.14
2011:
Fourth Quarter	$	17.99	$	11.70	$	0.14

Stock Performance Graph

The following indexed line graph indicates our total return to stockholders from our initial public offering on November 1, 2011 (the first day our Common Stock began trading on the NASDAQ Global Market) to December 31, 2012, as compared to the total return for the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ Telecommunications Index for the same period. The calculations in the graph assume that $100 was invested on November 1, 2011 in our Common Stock and each index and also assume dividend reinvestment.

Cumulative Total Shareholder Return

Lumos Networks, NASDAQ Composite Index

and NASDAQ Telecommunications Index

(11/1/11 – 12/31/12)

	November 1, 2011		December 31, 2011		December 31, 2012
Lumos Networks Corp.	$	100	$	98	$	67
NASDAQ Composite Index	$	100	$	101	$	116
NASDAQ Telecommunications Index	$	100	$	105	$	105

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Holders

There were approximately 3,300 holders of our common stock on March 1, 2013.

Dividends/Dividend Policy

We intend to continue to pay regular quarterly dividends on our common stock. Cash dividends of $0.14 per share were declared and paid for each of the four quarters in 2012. On February 27, 2013, our board of directors declared a dividend in the amount of $0.14 per share, which is to be paid on April 11, 2013 to stockholders of record on March 13, 2013. All decisions to declare dividends will be made at the discretion of the board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, cash requirements, investment opportunities, financial condition, credit agreement and contractual restrictions and other factors that the board of directors may deem relevant. We are a holding company that does not operate any business of our own. As a result, we are dependent on cash dividends and distributions and other transfers from our subsidiaries to make dividend payments or to make other distributions to our stockholders. Amounts that can be made available to us to pay cash dividends will be permitted by our credit agreement within the parameters of a restricted payment basket.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The Company does not have a share repurchase program in effect. However, during the three months ended December 31, 2012, the Company repurchased 7,956 shares of Company stock for $0.1 million in connection with the vesting of certain restricted stock grants issued pursuant to the Company’s 2011 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan. The Company repurchased these shares from employee plan participants for settlement of tax withholding obligations.

The number of shares repurchased and the average price paid per share for each month in the three months ended December 31, 2012 are as follows:

Period	(a) Total Number  of Shares Repurchased		(b) Average Price  Paid per Share		(c) Total Number  of Shares Repurchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs		(d) Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
October 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012		—	$	—		N/A		N/A
November 1, 2012 - November 30, 2012		—	$	—		N/A		N/A
December 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012		7,956	$	10.02		N/A		N/A
		7,956	$	10.02		N/A

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

SELECTED HISTORICAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION⁽⁶⁾

	Lumos Networks Corp. Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands, except per share amounts)	2012			2011			2010			2009			2008
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:
Operating Revenues	$	206,871		$	207,414		$	145,964		$	130,595		$	128,806
Operating Expenses
Cost of sales and services (1) (exclusive of items shown separately below)		80,520			78,484			46,407			40,158			38,857
Customer operations (1)		21,886			19,551			13,243			12,598			13,112
Corporate operations (1) (2)		23,615			16,251			13,809			8,582			10,836
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		39,008			43,206			31,376			28,719			27,033
Asset impairment charges		—			86,295			—			—			—
Restructuring charges		2,981			—			—			—			—
Gain on settlements, net		(2,335	)		—			—			—			—
		165,675			243,787			104,835			90,057			89,838
Operating Income (Loss)		41,196			(36,373	)		41,129			40,538			38,968
Other Income (Expense)
Interest expense (3)		(11,921	)		(11,993	)		(5,752	)		(1,478	)		(1,393	)
Loss on interest rate derivatives		(1,898	)		—			—			—			—
Other income, net		81			105			43			105			97
		(13,738	)		(11,888	)		(5,709	)		(1,373	)		(1,296	)
		27,458			(48,261	)		35,420			39,165			37,672
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)		11,010			(4,383	)		14,477			15,768			14,887
Net Income (Loss)		16,448			(43,878	)		20,943			23,397			22,785
Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests		(108	)		(52	)		(119	)		(39	)		(48	)
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$	16,340		$	(43,930	)	$	20,824		$	23,358		$	22,737
Basic and Diluted Earnings (Loss) per Common Share Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders (Pro Forma and Unaudited for 2011)
Earnings (Loss) per Share - Basic (4)	$	0.78		$	(2.11	)
Earnings (Loss) per Share - Diluted (4)	$	0.76		$	(2.11	)
Cash Dividends Declared per Share - Common Stock	$	0.56		$	0.14

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	As of December 31,
(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010		2009		2008
Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2	$	10,547	$	489	$	3	$	3
Property and equipment, net		336,589		299,958		273,906		203,239		158,829
Total assets		513,162		498,600		540,793		347,151		350,299
Total debt (5)		312,225		326,576		180,721		651		546
Stockholders’ equity attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$	64,050	$	52,383	$	265,794	$	272,681	$	280,194

⁽¹⁾  We record equity-based compensation expense related to our share-based awards. The following table shows the allocation of equity-based compensation expense to cost of sales and services, customer operations and corporate operations for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008.

	Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010		2009		2008
Cost of sales and services	$	645	$	314	$	230	$	148	$	59
Customer operations		712		419		297		143		99
Corporate operations		2,555		1,650		1,002		503		423
Equity-based compensation expense	$	3,912	$	2,383	$	1,529	$	794	$	581

⁽²⁾  Corporate operations expense for 2010 includes $3.0 million of charges representing legal and professional fees related to the acquisition of FiberNet (Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included herein).

⁽³⁾  Interest expense for 2012, 2011 and 2010 increased significantly from prior years as a result of the Allegheny asset acquisition on December 31, 2009 and the FiberNet purchase on December 1, 2010 (Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included herein) which were financed by intercompany borrowings from NTELOS Inc., and as a result of the $340 million senior credit facility that was funded on October 31, 2011 (Note 5 to our audited consolidated financial statements included herein).

⁽⁴⁾  Basic loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2011 is computed by dividing net loss for the year by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the two month post-Business Separation period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011. Diluted loss per share is calculated in a similar manner, but includes the dilutive effect of actual stock options and restricted shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011. Since these securities were anti-dilutive in 2011, they are excluded from the calculation of loss per share. Prior to the Business Separation, we did not have any common stock outstanding.

⁽⁵⁾  Of the total debt outstanding as of December 31, 2010, $178.6 million represented a long-term obligation to NTELOS Inc. This obligation was reflected as a long-term obligation as there was no current maturity. However, we settled this obligation with cash proceeds from a new long-term credit facility at the consummation of the Business Separation on October 31, 2011. The total debt outstanding as of December 31, 2011 includes $324.5 million from this credit facility (Note 5 to our audited consolidated financial statements included herein).

⁽⁶⁾  The financial statements of Lumos Networks for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 and as of and for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 have been adjusted to reflect certain corporate expenses, including equity-based compensation expense, of NTELOS which were not previously allocated to the NTELOS segments (see Note 3 to the audited consolidated financial statements included herein). These adjustments have been reflected beginning January 1, 2006. Equity attributable to Lumos Networks has not been adjusted to reflect these corporate expenses for periods prior to January 1, 2006.

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

You should read the following discussion of our financial condition in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included herein (Item 8). This discussion contains forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. For additional information regarding some of these risks and uncertainties that affect our business and the industry in which we operate, please see “Risk Factors” and “Forward-Looking Statements” elsewhere in this report.

Overview

Lumos Networks is a fiber-based network service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region with a network of long-haul fiber, metro Ethernet and Ethernet rings located primarily in Virginia and West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. We serve carrier, business and residential customers over our fiber network offering data, voice and IP services. Our principal products and services include metro Ethernet, which provides Ethernet connectivity among multiple locations in the same city or region over our fiber optic network, high-capacity private line and wavelength services, which provide a means to utilize fiber in broadband applications and provide high-capacity bandwidth, IP services and business and residential telephone local and long-distance services.

Our primary objective is to leverage our fiber assets to capture the continued rapid growth in demand for data and mobility services amongst our enterprise and carrier customers in the second and third-tier markets we serve. Central to our strategy is being first to the regional markets with advanced technology and products that are attractive to regional enterprise customers seeking high quality data and IP services and interconnection to data carriers in the region and to carriers with needs in our markets for transport and fiber to the cell site services.

Our overall strategy is to (i) maximize the value of our 5,800 mile long-haul fiber optic network to expand the sale of data and IP-services to new and existing enterprise and government customers while maintaining a ratio of approximately 70% to 80% on-net traffic; (ii) leverage our fiber network to expand to new fiber to the cell site opportunities; (iii) utilize our fiber footprint and carrier relationships to expand our revenue in transport; (iv) continue to provide high quality customer service and a compelling value proposition; (v) continue to shift incremental resources from the declining legacy voice products into our faster growing and more profitable strategic data products in the Competitive segment of our business; (vi) use our “edge-out” strategy to expand into new adjacent geographic markets to further leverage our fiber network and growing offering of data services; and (vii) use our success-based investment strategy to improve capital efficiency and expand margins.

Our strategic data products, which provided approximately 50% of our total revenue in 2012 and represent the main growth opportunity and the key focal point of our strategy, include our enterprise data, carrier data, fiber to the cell site (“FTTC”) and IP services product lines. These businesses, in the aggregate, also typically carry higher margins than many of our other product lines. A majority of our capital expenditures and the focus of our sales force have more recently been and will continue to be dedicated to expanding revenue and profit from our strategic data products. We believe that a balanced split between enterprise and carrier revenue results in the most effective capital allocation and resulting profitability.

The remaining 50% of our total revenue in 2012 was generated from legacy voice and access products. These businesses, in the aggregate, require limited incremental capital or personnel investment and deliver reasonably predictable cash flows. It is our belief that revenue from these legacy businesses, in the aggregate, will continue to decline at an annual rate of approximately 15%. This decline is the expected result of regulatory actions taken to reduce intra-state tariffs, access line loss resulting from residential wireless substitution, technology changes, the effect of current economic conditions on businesses and product replacement by competitive voice service offerings from cable operators in our markets. Despite the declining revenues, it is expected that the cash flows from these businesses will continue to be a significant contributor to funding the capital expenditures required for our higher growth and higher margin strategic data businesses.

Business Separation and Prior Acquisition

On October 14, 2011, NTELOS announced a distribution date of October 31, 2011 for the spin-off of all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Lumos Networks, which operated NTELOS’s wireline operations. Prior to and in connection with the Business Separation, following the market close on October 31, 2011, NTELOS effectuated a 1-for-2 reverse stock split of its shares of common stock. The spin-off of Lumos Networks was in the form of a tax-free stock distribution to NTELOS’s stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 24, 2011, the record date. On October 31, 2011, NTELOS distributed one share of Lumos Networks common stock for every share of NTELOS common stock outstanding, on a post-Reverse Stock Split basis. We have been publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “LMOS” since November 1, 2011.

Financial data included in this Form 10-K reflects Lumos Networks as a standalone public company. Revenue includes services sold to the NTELOS wireless segment that was previously eliminated, which amounted to $6.6 million for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 and $7.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2010. Expenses include items previously unallocated by NTELOS, inclusive of legal and professional fees, equity-based compensation expense and certain expenses related to acquisitions. These additional expenses for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 totaled $2.6 million and for the year ended December 31, 2010 totaled $5.1 million (inclusive of $2.8 million of FiberNet acquisition costs).

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On December 1, 2010, we closed on a purchase agreement with One Communications Corp. to acquire its FiberNet business for net cash consideration of approximately $163 million. The fiber optic network acquired in this transaction covers all of West Virginia and extends into surrounding areas in Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky, and provided us with further diversity and density in several of our existing markets, particularly in West Virginia. The former FiberNet business offered retail voice and data services and transport and IP-based services primarily to regional retail and wholesale business customers.

Business Segments

During 2012, we had two reportable business segments: Competitive and RLEC.

Our Competitive business serves Virginia, West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky and Ohio over an approximately 5,800 mile long haul fiber network as of December 31, 2012. Revenues from the Competitive segment accounted for approximately 76%, 74% and 61% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Pro forma to include the FiberNet acquisition for the year ended December 31, 2010, the Competitive segment accounted for approximately 73% of our total revenue.

The Competitive segment derives revenue from three key product groups: strategic data, legacy voice and access. The products underlying strategic data are enterprise data, carrier data, fiber to the cell site and IP services. Strategic data products are sold primarily to enterprise customers and carrier customers and represent the main growth opportunity and the key focal point of our strategy. We market and sell these services primarily to business, government and carrier customers. Legacy voice and access revenues have and will continue to decline as a result of the continuing commoditization of legacy voice products, the increasing use of wireless devices and recent regulatory actions.

In 2012, we achieved sequential year-over-year revenue growth of 16.4% for our strategic data products, which represented approximately 50% of our total revenues for 2012. This growth was achieved primarily through increases in customer bandwidth demand, an approximate 14% increase in the number of on-net buildings and by more than doubling our fiber to the cell sites in 2012. We have added experienced sales resources to improve our market penetration and facilitate the sale of our data and IP-based services, including sales resources focused on obtaining long-term fiber to the cell site contracts with wireless carriers that are deploying 4G data services. These contracts will enable us to provide high speed transport from those sites to switching locations. We had fiber deployed to 148 towers at December 31, 2011 and we exited 2012 with fiber to 370 towers.

In addition to reallocating our sales resources to focus on growing data revenue by driving enterprise data and carrier data sales in our footprint, we also took certain cost reduction measures in 2012 intended to increase our ability to fund our capital investment in our data businesses. Specifically, in the fourth quarter of 2012, we completed a cost reduction plan that involved a reduction of approximately 10% of our workforce (primarily in our legacy businesses), consolidation of certain facilities and freezing the accumulation of benefits under certain postretirement plans. We incurred restructuring charges of $3.0 million in 2012 in connection with this plan, consisting of employee severance and termination benefits of $2.4 million and lease termination costs of $0.6 million (see Note 12 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements). We do not expect to incur additional costs in 2013 related to this plan.

The RLEC provides service to the rural Virginia cities of Waynesboro and Covington, and portions of Alleghany, Augusta and Botetourt counties. Within the RLEC footprint, we offer the same basic product sets as we do in the other markets. IP services are anchored by high speed broadband with 98% coverage and fiber-to-the-home, which passed approximately 16,500 homes as of December 31, 2012. The fiber network provides the foundation for IP-based video services, currently up to 20 Mbps high speed Internet services and will allow us to offer future high-bandwidth applications as they evolve. While the RLEC owns the fiber, the products are sold through the Competitive segment. The Competitive segment purchases basic fiber services from the RLEC but provides its own sales, customer service and customer equipment to these RLEC customers. The intercompany revenue is eliminated in our consolidated statements of operations. In addition to these wholesaling arrangements with the Competitive segment, for the year ended December 31, 2012, approximately $1.9 million of enterprise data services have been sold directly to RLEC customers which are currently included in legacy voice.

In the RLEC market, our fiber-to-the-home deployment reduces churn in the areas where it is offered. In 2010, we received a federal broadband stimulus award to bring broadband services and infrastructure to Alleghany County, Virginia. The total project is $16 million, of which 50% ($8 million) is being funded by the grant from the federal government. We commenced this project in 2010 and began offering higher speed broadband services in Alleghany County in the fourth quarter of 2010, and we have incurred $9.4 million of total project costs through December 31, 2012. The project is required to be completed by September 30, 2015.

As of December 31, 2012, we operated approximately 31,200 RLEC telephone access lines. We have experienced access line losses in each of the last three years due to cable competition, wireless substitution and the economic climate. We lost approximately 2,000 and 2,200 access lines during 2012 and 2011, respectively. These line losses, coupled with mid-year 2011 rate reductions as a result of our biennial tariff filing with the FCC for one of our RLECs, access reconfigurations and network grooming by carriers, contributed to a 4.1% and 9.2% decline in legacy voice and access revenues, respectively, in the RLEC segment, and a 7.3% decline in total RLEC revenues from 2011 to 2012.

We anticipate significant further access revenue declines in the RLEC segment as a result of recent actions taken by applicable regulatory authorities, principally the FCC and the SCC. On November 18, 2011, the FCC released an order comprehensively reforming its Universal Service

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Fund and intercarrier compensation systems. In the order, the FCC determined that interstate and intrastate access charges, as well as local reciprocal compensation, should be eliminated entirely over time (see Access Charges and Universal Service in “Regulation”). These FCC pricing reductions commenced on July 1, 2012. However, a portion of the access revenue that we currently receive from carriers will be recovered through payments from the FCC’s newly created “Connect America Fund” (“CAF”) and from increases in charges to end user subscribers in the form of rate increases and the FCC’s newly created “Access Recovery Charge”. These new payments and revenues were also effective July 1, 2012. Access revenue also will continue to be negatively impacted by network grooming of carriers. Our combined RLEC revenues from access and the USF, including the CAF in 2012 (with the USF, the “cost recovery mechanisms”), was $30.0 million ($12.3 million of which was from intra-state access revenues and $5.9 million was from cost recovery mechanisms) for 2012 and $33.0 million ($18.7 million of which was from intra-state access revenues and $5.3 million was from cost recovery mechanisms) for 2011, as compared to access revenues of $36.8 million for 2010.

Excluding the impact of asset impairment charges of $86.3 million in 2011, our operating income margins were approximately 20%, 24% and 28% for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The decrease in the margin is primarily due to the RLEC access revenue reductions discussed above, combined with settlement of billing disputes and increased corporate expenses resulting from being an independent public company following the spin-off from NTELOS.

Market Risks

Many of the market risk factors described above which affected our results of operations in 2012 are expected to continue into 2013.

Operating Revenues

Our revenues are generated from the following categories:

• Competitive segment revenues, including revenues from three key product sets: strategic data, legacy voice and access. Strategic data includes the following products: enterprise data (dedicated internet, metro Ethernet, and private line), carrier data (transport and fiber to the cell site) and IP services (integrated access, DSL, broadband XL, and IP-based video). Legacy voice includes the following products: local lines, PRI, long distance and legacy dial-up Internet services. Access primarily includes switched access and reciprocal compensation.

• RLEC segment revenues, including revenues from two key product sets: legacy voice (primarily local services and features, toll and directory advertising) and access.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses are incurred from the following categories:

• cost of sales and services, including usage-based access charges, long distance and other direct costs incurred in accessing other telecommunications providers’ networks in order to provide telecommunication services to our end-user customers, leased facility expenses for connection to other carriers and engineering and repairs and maintenance expenses related to network property, plant and equipment;

• customer operations expenses, including marketing, product management, product advertising, selling, billing, publication of regional telephone directories, customer care, directory services, customer retention and bad debt expenses;

• corporate operations expenses, including taxes other than income, executive services, accounting, legal, purchasing, information technology, human resources and other general and administrative expenses, including earned bonuses and equity-based compensation expense related to stock and option instruments held by employees and non-employee directors, employee separation charges for certain former officers and amortization of actuarial losses related to retirement plans;

• depreciation and amortization, including depreciable long-lived property, plant and equipment and amortization of intangible assets where applicable;

• accretion of asset retirement obligations;

• gain on settlements, net; and

• restructuring charges.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA, as defined by us, is net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, other income or expenses, equity based compensation charges, acquisition related charges, amortization of actuarial losses on retirement plans, employee separation charges, restructuring related charges, gain or loss on settlements and gain or loss on interest rate derivatives.

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Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial performance measure. It should not be considered in isolation, as an alternative to, or more meaningful than measures of financial performance determined in accordance with GAAP. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a standard measure of operating performance and liquidity that is commonly reported in the telecommunications industry and provides relevant and useful information to investors for comparing performance period to period and for comparing financial performance of similar companies. Management utilizes Adjusted EBITDA internally to assess its ability to meet future capital expenditure and working capital requirements, to incur indebtedness if necessary, and to fund continued growth. Management also uses Adjusted EBITDA to evaluate the performance of its business for budget planning purposes and as factors in the Company’s employee compensation programs.

Note 4 – Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements provides a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Operating Income (Loss) for each of the Company’s reportable operating segments.

Other Income (Expenses)

Our other income (expenses) are generated (incurred) from interest expense on debt instruments and capital lease obligations, interest expense on accounts due to NTELOS (prior to the Business Separation), loss on interest rate derivatives and other income (expense), which includes interest income and fees, expenses related to our senior secured credit facility and, as appropriate, related charges or amortization of debt issuance fees.

Income Taxes

Our income tax expense and effective tax rate increases or decreases based upon changes in a number of factors, including our pre-tax income or loss, state minimum tax assessments and non-deductible expenses. Prior to the Business Separation, our income taxes were included in the NTELOS consolidated federal income tax return and certain unitary or consolidated state income tax returns of NTELOS. However, our income taxes were calculated and provided for on an “as if separate” tax return basis.

Noncontrolling Interests in Losses (Earnings) of Subsidiaries

We have an RLEC segment partnership with a 46.3% noncontrolling interest that owns certain signaling equipment and provides service to a number of small RLECs and to TNS (an inter-operability solution provider).

Results of Operations

Year ended December 31, 2012 compared to year ended December 31, 2011

Operating revenues decreased $0.5 million, or 0.3%, from 2011 to 2012 resulting from a decrease in RLEC segment revenues of $3.9 million, largely offset by an increase in Competitive revenues of $3.3 million. The increase in Competitive segment revenues was primarily driven by increased revenues from strategic data products, which increased $14.5 million, or 16.4%, from 2011 to 2012, offset by decreases in legacy voice and access revenue of $8.9 million and $2.2 million, respectively. The $3.9 million decline in RLEC segment revenues is due primarily to the loss of access lines described in the overview above, a biennial rate reduction as a result of our tariff filing with the FCC in mid-year 2011, reductions in intrastate access as part of the FCC’s access reform plan, access reconfigurations and network grooming by carriers. For further details regarding these revenue fluctuations, see “Operating Revenues” below.

Operating income increased $77.6 million from a loss of $36.4 million in 2011 to income of $41.2 million in 2012 due primarily to asset impairment charges of $86.3 million recorded in 2011. Excluding the 2011 asset impairment charges, operating income decreased $8.7 million from 2011 to 2012 due to increased operating expenses primarily due to increases in corporate expenses as a result of operating as an independent public company for the full year in 2012 combined with restructuring charges, employee separation charges and amortization of actuarial losses on benefit plans. Variances in the individual line items on the condensed combined statements of operations are described in the operating expenses section below.

Adjusted EBITDA was $88.9 million in 2012 compared with $96.9 million in 2011. The decrease in Adjusted EBITDA is directly attributable to the increase in operating expenses, as described above and in further detail below.

Net income attributable to Lumos Networks increased $60.3 million due in large part to the $86.3 million of asset impairment charges ($65.7 million net of tax) discussed above. Excluding the effects of the 2011 asset impairment charges, net income attributable to Lumos Networks decreased $5.5 million, or 25.2%, from 2011 to 2012 due to the $8.7 million decrease in operating income combined with a $1.9 million increase in interest and other expenses, offset by a reduction in income tax expense of $5.2 million.

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OPERATING REVENUES

The following table identifies our external operating revenues by business segment for years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Year Ended December 31,
(Dollars in thousands)	2012		2011		$ Variance			% Variance
Operating Revenues
Competitive	$	157,720	$	154,397	$	3,323			2.2	%
RLEC		49,151		53,017		(3,866	)		(7.3	)%
Total Operating Revenues	$	206,871	$	207,414	$	(543	)		(0.3	)%

Revenues for 2012 decreased $0.5 million, or 0.3%, over 2011, as described by segment below.

• Competitive Revenues. Competitive revenues increased $3.3 million, or 2.2%, from 2011 to 2012. This increase was driven by the $14.5 million increase in strategic data revenue as a result of increased revenue in all of the major product lines (enterprise data, carrier class data and IP services) due to increases in customer bandwidth demand, the number of on-net buildings and connections to wireless cell sites, offset by decreases of $8.9 million and $2.2 million in legacy voice and access revenues, respectively.

• RLEC Revenues. RLEC revenues decreased $3.9 million, or 7.3%, from 2011 to 2012 due to decreases of $0.8 million and $3.1 million in legacy voice and access revenues, respectively.

The decrease in revenues from legacy voice and access products for both segments is partially attributable to access line loss. Access lines totaled approximately 31,200 as of December 31, 2012 and approximately 33,200 as of December 31, 2011, a 2,000 line decline. This access line loss is reflective of residential wireless substitution, the effect of current economic conditions on businesses and competitive voice service offerings from cable operators in our RLEC markets.

The following table identifies our external operating revenues grouped by major product families for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Year Ended
(Dollars in thousands)	2012		2011		$ Variance			% Variance
Operating Revenues
Strategic Data:
Enterprise data	$	36,782	$	33,131	$	3,651			11.0	%
Carrier data		47,113		37,649		9,464			25.1	%
IP Services		18,743		17,401		1,342			7.7	%
Total Strategic Data		102,638		88,181		14,457			16.4	%
Legacy Voice:
Competitive		45,466		54,414		(8,948	)		(16.4	)%
RLEC		19,223		20,039		(816	)		(4.1	)%
Total Legacy Voice		64,689		74,453		(9,764	)		(13.1	)%
Access:
Competitive		9,616		11,802		(2,186	)		(18.5	)%
RLEC		29,928		32,978		(3,050	)		(9.2	)%
Total Access		39,544		44,780		(5,236	)		(11.7	)%
Total Operating Revenues	$	206,871	$	207,414	$	(543	)		(0.3	)%

• Strategic Data.

• Enterprise Data – The 11.0% increase noted in the table above was primarily driven by increased customer bandwidth demand and an increase in on-net buildings of 13.8% from 1,051 at December 31, 2011 to 1,196 at December 31, 2012. Revenue from our metro Ethernet product was the largest contributor, increasing $4.6 million. This was partially offset by declines in private line revenue which primarily relates to our designing metro Ethernet solutions to existing private line customers in situations where this is the optimal solution for our customer.

• Carrier Data – The 25.1% increase in carrier data revenue was primarily attributable to (i) increases in transport revenues resulting from increases in traffic from existing customers and expansion of our network to reach new carrier customers and (ii) increases in FTTC revenue as a result of more than doubling our fiber connections to wireless cell sites, from 148 as of December 31, 2011 to 370 as of December 31, 2012, a large portion of which were connected late in the fourth quarter and therefore expected to contribute to revenue growth in the first quarter of 2013.

• IP Services – The 7.7% increase in IP services revenue was primarily driven by increases in high speed fiber to the premises Internet and video services and other Voice over IP (“VoIP”) services partially offset by declines in the legacy DSL products.

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• Legacy Voice. The 13.1% decline in legacy voice revenues was primarily due to the continuing churn from the commoditization of this product set, the increasing use of wireless devices and our shift in focus to VoIP (which is included in IP services revenue) and other strategic data products.

• Access. As noted in the overview section above, actions from regulatory authorities caused rate reductions beginning in July 2012 with further reductions occurring over the next few years, the effect of which is predicted to be more significant than experienced in prior years, particularly for the competitive access products. The 11.7% decrease in access revenues, as noted in the table above, is attributable to these factors coupled with other factors such as network grooming by carriers.

OPERATING EXPENSES

The following table identifies our operating expenses by business segment, consistent with the table presenting operating revenues above, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

	Year Ended
(Dollars in thousands)	2012			2011		$ Variance			% Variance
Operating Expenses
Competitive	$	100,002		$	94,045	$	5,957			6.3	%
RLEC		17,980			16,429		1,551			9.4	%
Operating expenses, before depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations, asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation expense, acquisition related charges, Business Separation related charges, employee separation charges, restructuring charges, amortization of actuarial losses and gain on settlements, net		117,982			110,474		7,508			6.8	%
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		39,008			43,206		(4,198	)		(9.7	)%
Asset impairment charges		—			86,295		(86,295	)		(100.0	)%
Equity-based compensation expense		3,912			2,383		1,529			64.2	%
Acquisition related charges		—			71		(71	)		(100.0	)%
Business Separation related charges		—			1,358		(1,358	)		(100.0	)%
Employee separation charges (1)		2,346			—		2,346			100.0	%
Restructuring charges (2)		2,981			—		2,981			100.0	%
Amortization of actuarial losses (3)		1,781			—		1,781			100.0	%
Gain on settlements, net (4)		(2,335	)		—		(2,335	)		100.0	%
Total Operating Expenses	$	165,675		$	243,787	$	(78,112	)		(32.0	)%

⁽¹⁾  In 2012, we recorded charges of $2.3 million related to the recognition of employee separation benefits which were provided for the in the employment agreements of two executive officers who left the Company in April and December 2012. These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the consolidated statement of operations.

⁽²⁾  In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company completed a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, the consolidation of certain facilities and freezing of the accumulation of benefits under certain postretirement plans. Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (see Note 12 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements).

⁽³⁾  We received an allocated portion of the total benefits expenses from NTELOS Inc. for NTELOS’s pension and other postemployment retirement plans in which we participated during the periods prior to the Business Separation. The total allocated expense for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 related to amortization of actuarial losses was not material.

⁽⁴⁾  We recognized a net pre-tax gain of approximately $2.3 million in 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (see Note 13 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements).

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The following describes our operating expenses by segment (as presented in the table above) and on a basis consistent with our presentation in the consolidated statement of operations.

• Competitive – The increase of $6.0 million was primarily driven by a $6.4 million increase in corporate and customer operations expenses which were allocated to the business segment (see discussion of customer operations expenses and corporate operations expenses below), as well as increases in other expenses such and repairs and maintenance and professional fees of $1.6 million and $0.6 million, respectively. Partially offsetting these net increases was a decrease in compensation and benefits for employees working directly for the Competitive segment of $0.5 million and an aggregate $2.1 million decrease in bad debt expense, rent expense and certain other direct operating costs such as access, contracted services and operating taxes.

• RLEC – The increase of $1.6 million is attributable to generally the same factors as the Competitive segment ($2.0 million increase in corporate and customer operations expense allocations, partially offset by decreases in access costs, materials and supplies and other direct operating costs).

COST OF SALES AND SERVICES – Cost of sales and services increased $2.0 million, or 2.6%, over 2011. The primary driver was increased repairs and maintenance costs of $1.9 million. Increases in contracted services and materials and supplies also contributed to the overall increase. These increases were partially offset by decreases in access costs and a net decrease in compensation and benefits and corporate expense allocations.

CUSTOMER OPERATIONS EXPENSES – Customer operations expenses increased $2.3 million, or 11.9%, over 2011 primarily due to increased compensation and benefits, including equity-based compensation expense and sales commissions. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in bad debt expense.

CORPORATE OPERATIONS EXPENSES – Corporate operations expense increased $7.4 million, or 45.3% over 2011 primarily as the result of increased corporate general and administrative costs from being an independent public company for the full year. Legal and professional fees, director fees, contracted services and insurance costs increased $3.8 million in the aggregate, primarily as a result of this. The increase in legal and professional fees is also due to legal services provided to settle several outstanding billing disputes during the year. The remainder of the increase is attributable to $2.3 million in employee separation charges and $1.8 million for amortization of actuarial losses on the pension and other postretirement benefit plans.

DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION – Depreciation and amortization decreased $4.2 million, or 9.8%, over 2011. This decrease is attributable to a $4.2 million decrease in amortization expense related to customer intangibles for which amortization expense is escalated in the early years of the asset lives based on these assets’ estimated pattern of benefit.

ASSET IMPAIRMENT CHARGES – In 2011, we recorded asset impairment charges which totaled $86.3 million ($65.7 million after tax) in our RLEC segment related to the impairment of the RLEC franchise rights and goodwill ($65.4 million; $53.0 million after tax) and a $20.9 million ($12.7 million after tax) asset impairment charge related to the excess of carrying value over book value of the RLEC property, plant and equipment, customer intangible and trademarks. No asset impairment charges were recorded in 2012.

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)

Interest expense was $11.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2012, which was $0.1 million lower than our interest expense of $12.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2011. Interest expense for 2012 is primarily related to the $340 million credit facility drawn on October 31, 2011 a portion of which was used to pay off the obligation to NTELOS Inc. in connection with the Business Separation. Interest expense in 2011 is primarily related to interest charged by NTELOS for borrowings for the first ten months of the year and interest on the credit facility for the two-month period after the Business Separation. Under the terms of the credit facility we were required to enter into an interest rate hedge for three years on 50% of the term loans. In February 2012, we entered into a 3% interest rate cap for February 2012 through December 31, 2012 and a delayed interest rate swap agreement from December 31, 2012 through December 31, 2015. We recorded non-cash losses of $1.9 million associated with the mark-to-market accounting for these interest rate derivatives during the year ended December 31, 2012.

INCOME TAXES

Income tax expense (benefit) for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 was $11.0 million and $(4.4) million, respectively, representing the statutory tax rate applied to pre-tax income and the effects of certain non-deductible charges. We expect our recurring non-deductible expenses to relate primarily to certain non-cash equity-based compensation. The non-deductible goodwill impairment charge in 2011 was the main driver for changes in income taxes from 2011 to 2012.

The Company has prior year unused net operating losses (“NOLs”) totaling $10.9 million as of December 31, 2012. The NOLs include $3.9 million that was assigned to the Company as a result of the Business Separation and are subject to an adjusted annual maximum limit due to the application of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Company’s NOLs, if not utilized to reduce taxable income in future periods, will expire in varying amounts from 2023 through 2031. The Company believes that it is more likely than not that the results of future operations will generate sufficient taxable income to realize the deferred tax assets.

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Year ended December 31, 2011 compared to year ended December 31, 2010

Operating revenues increased $61.5 million, or 42.1%, from 2010 to 2011 resulting from an increase in Competitive segment revenues of $65.9 million and partially offset by a decrease in RLEC revenues of $4.5 million. Pro forma to include FiberNet (which is included in the Competitive segment) for the year ended December 31, 2010, total operating revenues were $213.1 million, compared to $207.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, representing a decrease of $5.7 million.

Pro forma Competitive segment revenues decreased $0.8 million, or 0.5%, from 2010 to 2011 primarily from declines in voice and other products related to FiberNet operations, partially offset by increased revenues from enterprise data and carrier data services. As noted above, RLEC segment revenues declined $4.5 million from the prior year due primarily to the loss of access lines described in the overview above, a biennial reset (reduction) of our interstate access rates in the third quarter of 2011 and revenue reductions related to interexchange carrier network grooming.

Operating income decreased $77.5 million from income of $41.1 million in 2010 to a loss of $36.4 million in 2011 due primarily to $86.3 million of asset impairment charges recorded in 2011, as described in the overview section above. Excluding the 2011 asset impairment charges, operating income increased $8.8 million from 2010 to 2011 due to the $61.5 million increase in revenue discussed above, partially offset by an increase in operating expenses of $52.7 million. Operating expenses for 2011 include $58.9 million of operating expenses from FiberNet, while operating expenses for 2010 include $4.9 million of operating expenses from FiberNet, representing one month of expenses post-acquisition. Excluding the operating expenses from FiberNet and the aforementioned asset impairment charges, operating expenses were down 1.3% from 2010 to 2011. Variances in the individual line items on the condensed combined statements of operations are described in the operating expenses section below.

Adjusted EBITDA was $96.9 million in 2011 compared with $77.1 million in 2010. The increase in Adjusted EBITDA is attributable to the $61.5 million increase in revenues partially offset with a $41.6 million increase in operating expenses, as described in further detail below.

Net income attributable to Lumos Networks decreased $64.8 million due in large part to the $86.3 million of asset impairment charges ($65.7 million net of tax) discussed above. Excluding the effects of the 2011 asset impairment charges, net income attributable to Lumos Networks increased $0.9 million, or 4.5%, from 2010 to 2011 as the $8.8 million increase in operating income was primarily offset by (1) $6.2 million increase in interest expense related to the additional debt from NTELOS Inc. incurred in December 2010 to fund the FiberNet acquisition and interest related to our $340 million borrowing under our senior secured credit facility on October 31, 2011 in connection with the Business Separation (see Note 5 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data) and (2) $1.7 million increase in income tax expense.

OPERATING REVENUES

The following table identifies our external operating revenues by business segment for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010:

	Year Ended
(Dollars in thousands)	2011		2010		$ Variance			% Variance
Operating Revenues
Competitive	$	154,397	$	88,471	$	65,926			74.5	%
RLEC		53,017		57,493		(4,476	)		(7.8	)%
Total Operating Revenues	$	207,414	$	145,964	$	61,450			42.1	%

Revenues for 2011 increased $61.5 million, or 42.1%, over 2010, with revenues from the Competitive segment increasing approximately 75% driven by the new revenues from FiberNet. Pro forma to include FiberNet for the year ended December 31, 2010, total revenues decreased by $5.6 million, or 2.6%, as described by segment below.

• Competitive Revenues. Competitive revenues, pro forma to include FiberNet for year ended December 31, 2010, decreased $0.8 million, or 0.5%, from 2010 to 2011. This decrease was primarily due to a $7.5 million decline in voice and long distance revenues, principally associated with FiberNet, and a $2.6 million decline in other non-strategic revenues, including dial-up Internet and reciprocal compensation. These decreases were partially offset by increased revenues from Enterprise Data and Residential and Small Business Broadband services of $4.4 million over 2010 and a $4.9 million increase in wholesale revenues over 2010.

• RLEC Revenues. RLEC revenues decreased $4.8 million, or 8.4%, from 2010 to 2011 primarily due to decreased access and local service revenues resulting from a 6.3% decrease in access lines. Also contributing to the decrease was network grooming by our carrier customers with whom we interconnect and for whom we provide access services. Finally, on July 1, 2011, our interstate access rates were subject to a biennial reset (reduction), which resulted in a $1.2 million reduction in revenue during the second half of 2011.

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Access lines totaled approximately 33,200 as of December 31, 2011 and approximately 35,400 as of December 31, 2010, a 2,200 line decline. This access line loss is reflective of residential wireless substitution, the effect of current economic conditions on businesses and competitive voice service offerings from cable operators in our RLEC markets.

OPERATING EXPENSES

The following table identifies our operating expenses by business segment, consistent with the table presenting operating revenues above, for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010:

	Year Ended
(Dollars in thousands)	2011		2010		$ Variance			% Variance
Operating Expenses
Competitive	$	94,045	$	51,155	$	42,890			83.8	%
RLEC		16,429		17,755		(1,326	)		(7.5	)%
Operating expenses, before depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations, asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation expense, acquisition related charges and Business Separation related charges		110,474		68,910		41,564			60.3	%
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		43,206		31,376		11,830			37.7	%
Asset impairment charges		86,295		—		86,295			100.0	%
Equity-based compensation expense		2,383		1,529		854			55.9	%
Acquisition related charges		71		3,020		(2,949	)		(97.6	)%
Business Separation related charges		1,358		—		1,358			100.0	%
Total Operating Expenses	$	243,787	$	104,835	$	138,952			132.5	%

The following describes our operating expenses by segment and on a basis consistent with our financial statement presentation.

• Competitive – The increase noted in the table above was driven by a $42.7 million increase in expenses related to our FiberNet operations, which increase reflects the inclusion of FiberNet for the full twelve months of 2011 as opposed to one month in 2010 as a result of the acquisition of FiberNet in December 2010.

• RLEC – The decrease of $1.3 million was driven primarily by a reduction in corporate expense allocations which have been shifted to the Competitive segment which is a reflection of the change in the relative sizes of the segments.

COST OF SALES AND SERVICES – Cost of sales and services increased $32.1 million, or 69.1%, over 2010. FiberNet accounted for $31.5 million of this increase. Other expenses contributing to the net increase was access expense and compensation and benefits. We expect network expenses related to the original FiberNet customer base to decline due to churn of residential and other narrowband customers and as we groom this network by pruning leased facilities and by servicing more customers on our network to eliminate lease access expenses and improve the quality of the service.

CUSTOMER OPERATIONS EXPENSES – Customer operations expenses increased $6.3 million, or 47.6%, over 2010 primarily due to FiberNet. The remainder of the increase is primarily attributable to increased compensation and benefits, including equity-based compensation expense and sales commissions. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in directory expenses.

CORPORATE OPERATIONS EXPENSES – Corporate operations expense increased $2.4 million, or 17.7% over 2010. Included in this increase is an increase of $4.5 million in expenses related to FiberNet. Also included in the increase over 2010 are charges of $1.4 million incurred during 2011 related to the Business Separation, and increases in compensation and benefits, including equity-based compensation expense. Partially offsetting these increases was a decrease of $2.9 million from 2010 representing charges incurred during 2010 for the acquisition of FiberNet. Also decreasing from 2010 to 2011 were legal and professional fees allocated from NTELOS.

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DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION EXPENSES – Depreciation and amortization increased $11.7 million, or 37.4%, over 2010. This increase is primarily attributable to a $63.1 million increase in average depreciable assets (20%) due to the increase from the FiberNet acquisition and the $61.5 million of 2011 capital expenditures and a $6.8 million increase in amortization expense. The increases in amortization expense related to the addition of customer and other amortizable intangible assets from the FiberNet acquisition, a majority of the amortization expense for which is escalated in the early years of the asset lives based on these assets’ estimated pattern of benefit.

ASSET IMPAIRMENT CHARGES – In 2011, we recorded asset impairment charges which totaled $86.3 million ($65.7 million after tax) in its RLEC segment related to the impairment of the RLEC franchise rights and goodwill ($65.4 million; $53.0 million after tax) due to the aforementioned significant future access revenue decline related to interconnection carrier’s network grooming and the regulatory rate reform. Additionally, we recorded a $20.9 million ($12.7 million after tax) asset impairment charge related to the excess of carrying value over book value of the RLEC property, plant and equipment, customer intangible and trademarks on the date of the transfer.

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)

Interest expense for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 was $12.0 million and $5.8 million, respectively, a $6.2 million, or 109%, increase. This increase was due primarily to the increase in the obligation to NTELOS Inc. on December 1, 2010 relating to the FiberNet acquisition and the $340 million new credit facility drawn on October 31, 2011, a portion of which was used to pay off the obligation to NTELOS Inc. in connection with the Business Separation.

INCOME TAXES

Income tax expense (benefit) for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 was $(4.4) million and $14.5 million, respectively, representing the statutory tax rate applied to pre-tax income and the effects of certain non-deductible compensation.

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Quarterly Results

The following table sets forth selected unaudited consolidated quarterly statement of operations data for each of the quarters in 2012 and 2011. This unaudited information has been prepared on substantially the same basis as our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this report and includes all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) we believe necessary for a fair statement of the unaudited consolidated quarterly data. The unaudited consolidated quarterly statement of operations data should be read together with the consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this report. The results for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for any future period, and you should not rely on them as such.

Summary Operating Results (Unaudited) (In thousands, except per share amounts)	December 31, 2012			September 30, 2012			June 30, 2012			March 31, 2012			December 31, 2011			September 30, 2011			June 30, 2011			March 31, 2011
Operating Revenues
Competitive	$	40,058		$	39,778		$	38,968		$	38,916		$	39,401		$	38,494		$	38,473		$	38,389
RLEC		12,621			12,199			11,835			12,496			11,706			13,107			13,589			14,255
Total Operating Revenues		52,679			51,977			50,803			51,412			51,107			51,601			52,062			52,644
Operating Expenses
Competitive		25,406			25,338			24,890			24,368			24,367			22,764			23,002			23,912
RLEC		4,062			4,358			4,807			4,753			3,736			4,190			4,035			4,468
Operating expenses, before depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations, asset impairment charges, equity-based compensation expense, acquisition related charges, Business Separation related charges, employee separation charges, restructuring charges, amortization of actuarial losses, and gain on settlements, net		29,468			29,696			29,697			29,121			28,103			26,954			27,037			28,380
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		11,242			9,682			8,834			9,250			10,217			10,934			11,025			11,030
Asset impairment charges		—			—						—			86,295			—			—			—
Equity-based compensation expense		1,025			1,099			777			1,011			237			784			674			688
Acquisition related charges		—			—			—			—			1			(10	)		39			41
Business Separation related charges		—			—			—			—			1,358			—			—			—
Employee separation charges		271			40			2,035			—			—			—			—			—
Restructuring charges		2,981			—			—			—			—			—			—			—
Amortization of actuarial losses		445			446			445			445			—			—			—			—
Gain on settlements, net		—			(2,335	)		—			—			—			—			—			—
Total Operating Expenses		45,432			38,628			41,788			39,827			126,211			38,662			38,775			40,139
Operating Income (Loss)		7,247			13,349			9,015			11,585			(75,104	)		12,939			13,287			12,505
Other Income (Expenses)
Interest expense		(2,941	)		(3,064	)		(2,929	)		(2,987	)		(3,153	)		(2,559	)		(2,563	)		(3,718	)
(Loss) gain on interest rate derivatives		(1,343	)		(263	)		(438	)		146			—			—			—			—
Other income (expense)		26			24			23			8			32			66			(7	)		14
Total Other Income (Expenses)		(4,258	)		(3,303	)		(3,344	)		(2,833	)		(3,121	)		(2,493	)		(2,570	)		(3,704	)
Income (Loss) Before Income Taxes		2,989			10,046			5,671			8,752			(78,225	)		10,446			10,717			8,801
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)		1,025			3,589			2,953			3,443			(16,527	)		4,249			4,157			3,738
Net Income (Loss)		1,964			6,457			2,718			5,309			(61,698	)		6,197			6,560			5,063
Net (Income) Loss Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests		(28	)		(115	)		57			(22	)		35			(2	)		(37	)		(48	)
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$	1,936		$	6,342		$	2,775		$	5,287		$	(61,663	)	$	6,195		$	6,523		$	5,015
Basic and Diluted Earnings (Loss) per Common Share Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders (Pro Forma and Unaudited for 2011):
Earnings (loss) per share - basic (1)	$	0.09		$	0.30		$	0.13		$	0.25		$	(2.96	)	$	0.30		$	0.31		$	0.24
Earnings (loss) per share - diluted (1)	$	0.09		$	0.30		$	0.13		$	0.25		$	(2.96	)	$	0.30		$	0.31		$	0.24
Weighted average shares outstanding - basic (1)		21,047			20,992			20,942			20,850			20,815			20,815			20,815			20,815
Weighted average shares outstanding - diluted (1)		21,517			21,471			21,398			21,237			20,815			20,815			20,815			20,815
Cash Dividends Declared per Share - Common Stock	$	0.14		$	0.14		$	0.14		$	0.14		$	0.14		$	—		$	—		$	—

(1) Basic earnings (loss) per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2011 is computed by dividing net loss for the quarter by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the two month post-Business Separation period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is calculated in a similar manner, but includes the dilutive effect of actual stock options and restricted shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011. Since these securities are anti-dilutive, they are excluded from the calculation of earnings per share. Prior to the Business Separation, we did not have any common stock outstanding.

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, our working capital requirements, capital expenditures (excluding acquisitions) and cash dividends were funded by cash on hand and net cash provided from operating activities.

As of December 31, 2012, we had $394.8 million in aggregate long term liabilities, consisting of $304.3 million in borrowings under our Credit Facility ($311.0 million including the current portion) and $90.5 million in other long-term liabilities, inclusive of deferred income tax liabilities of $56.0 million, pension and other postretirement obligations of $30.4 million and other long-term liabilities of $4.1 million. Our credit agreement also includes a revolving credit facility of $60 million (the “Revolver”), approximately $56.5 million of which is available for our working capital requirements and other general corporate purposes as of December 31, 2012.

In addition to the Credit Facility, we have also entered into capital leases on vehicles and equipment with original lease terms of four to five years. In addition, we had $0.6 million of capital leases primarily on telephony equipment with the FiberNet acquisition, which were paid in full in the fourth quarter of 2012 in connection with a sale of the related assets. As of December 31, 2012, the total net present value of our future minimum lease payments is $1.2 million and the principal portion of these capital lease obligations is due as follows: $0.4 million in 2013, $0.3 million in 2014, $0.3 million in 2015, $0.2 million in 2016 and less than $0.1 million thereafter.

We have a maximum distributable amount under the terms of our credit agreement that can be used to make certain restricted payments including dividends. The distributable amount was initially set at $5 million on the date of funding and is increased every January 1st by the greater of $12 million or 75% of excess cash flow, as defined. Based on the excess cash flow calculation for the year ended December 31, 2012, the distributable amount was increased by $12 million on January 1, 2013. The distributable amount as of December 31, 2012 was $5.1 million.

Under the credit agreement governing the Credit Facility, we are also bound by certain financial covenants. Noncompliance with any one or more of the debt covenants may have an adverse effect on our financial condition or liquidity in the event such noncompliance cannot be cured or should we be unable to obtain a waiver from the lenders of the Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2012, we are in compliance with all of our debt covenants, and our ratios at December 31, 2012 are as follows:

	Actual	Covenant Requirement at December 31, 2012
Total debt outstanding to EBITDA (as defined in the credit agreement)	3.50	Not more than 4.00
Minimum interest coverage ratio	8.00	Not less than 3.25

During the year ended December 31, 2012, net cash provided by operating activities was $72.2 million. Net income during this period was $16.4 million which included $53.3 million of depreciation, amortization, deferred taxes and other non-cash charges (net). Total net changes in operating assets and liabilities provided $2.4 million. The principal changes in operating assets and liabilities from December 31, 2011 to December 31, 2012 were as follows: accounts receivable decreased $0.2 million; current assets increased $3.5 million; changes in income taxes provided $0.1 million; accounts payable and other current liabilities increased $5.6 million (primarily related to the $2.7 million of restructuring costs accrued at December 31, 2012 and increases in operating taxes of $1.2 million).

During the year ended December 31, 2011, net cash provided by operating activities was $82.9 million. Net loss during this period was $43.9 million which included $120.3 million of depreciation, amortization, asset impairment charges, deferred taxes and other non-cash charges (net). Total net changes in operating assets and liabilities provided $6.5 million. The principal changes in operating assets and liabilities from December 31, 2010 to December 31, 2011 were as follows: accounts receivable increased $2.1 million; current assets decreased $0.3 million; changes in income taxes provided $3.7 million; accounts payable and other current liabilities increased $5.0 million primarily related to the $3.0 million dividend that was payable as of December 31, 2011 and retirement benefit contributions and distributions totaled $0.5 million.

Our cash flows used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2012 were $56.3 million, of which approximately $59.9 million was used for the purchase of property and equipment, comprised of (i) $44.7 million for success-based customer and network expansion, (ii) $7.1 million for infrastructure upgrades and network sustainment, and (iii) $8.1 million for IT and facility related projects. Our net cash flows used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2012 also included proceeds on the sale of the assets of the former FiberNet managed services business of $0.8 million, $2.3 million received from Rural Utilities Service (“RUS”) for reimbursement of the grant portion of capital spent on the projects and the return of $2.3 million of the required pledged deposit, $1.4 million of capital spending on the RUS project for which RUS is obligated to reimburse us and $0.3 million used to purchase the Lumos Networks trade name (see Note 3 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data).

Our cash flows used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2011 were $62.8 million, of which approximately $61.5 million was used for the purchase of property and equipment comprised of (i) $18.9 million for the FiberNet network infrastructure and integration, (ii) $22.3 million for success-based customer and network expansion, (iii) $14.3 million for infrastructure upgrades and network sustainment, (iv) $3.7 million for expansion and upgrades related to the RUS grant, and (v) $2.3 million for IT and facilities renovations associated with the Business Separation. Our cash flows used in investing activities for the year ended

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December 31, 2011 also included $1.0 million received from Rural Utilities Service (“RUS”) for reimbursement of the grant portion of capital spent on the projects and the return of a portion of the required pledged deposit and $2.2 million of capital spending on the RUS project for which RUS is obligated to reimburse us.

We currently expect capital expenditures for 2013 to be in the range of $65 million to $70 million. These capital expenditures will be targeted to leverage our extensive investment in our fiber network backbone and fiber rings with enterprise customer fiber builds, fiber to the cell site deployments and other wholesale revenue opportunities with attractive return on investment profiles. Additionally, we will provide normal network facility upgrades for our RLEC and Competitive operations, and fund fiber deployment in the RLEC territory related to an infrastructure upgrade to offer, among other services, continued deployment of fiber-to-the-home and growth in IPTV-based video subscribers and revenues. A portion of our capital expenditures for 2013 are also expected to be devoted to internal business system upgrades and enhancements.

Net cash used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2012 aggregated $26.4 million, which primarily represents the following:

• $11.5 million of repayments (net) under the revolving credit facility;

• $2.0 million repayments on our Credit Facility;

• $12.0 million used to pay cash dividends on our common stock;

• $1.5 million payments under capital lease obligations; and

• $0.6 million provided by other financing activities.

Net cash used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2011 aggregated $10.1 million, which primarily represents the following:

• $340.0 million of proceeds from issuance of long-term debt;

• $315.0 million paid to NTELOS Inc. associated with the Business Separation;

• $14.4 million net repayments to NTELOS Inc. prior to the Business Separation;

• $4.9 million used to pay debt issuance costs;

• $15.5 million repayments on our Credit Facility; and

• $0.3 million payments under capital lease obligations and $0.1 million of other financing activities.

As of December 31, 2012, we had approximately $5.3 million in cash and restricted cash and negative working capital (current assets minus current liabilities) of approximately $17.3 million. All of the cash on hand at December 31, 2012 represents previously mentioned pledge deposits for our RUS grant. We have a swingline arrangement with our primary commercial bank which is part of the total $60 million revolving credit facility. This facility is automatically drawn on or paid down based on cash inflows and outflows from our master cash account which serves to minimize the cost of capital.

Our RLEC paid dividends of $14.1 million to NTELOS Inc., a subsidiary of NTELOS, in the year ended December 31, 2011 in accordance with the requirements of NTELOS Inc.’s senior secured credit facility. After the Business Separation, the RLEC is no longer a subsidiary of NTELOS Communications Inc. and began paying intercompany dividends to us in accordance with the Credit Facility. The RLEC paid $19.4 million of dividends to us during the year ended December 31, 2012, all of which were eliminated in consolidation.

As discussed previously in Regulation and this Management’s Discussion and Analysis, certain events and actions taken by the FCC and telecommunication carriers that we interconnect with are projected to have a significant negative impact on our future cash flows from the RLEC segment. However, we believe that the growth of our cash flows in the Competitive segment will offset the decline in the RLEC cash flows over time. With our focus on strategic data products, which comprised 65% of our Competitive segment revenues and 50% of total revenues for 2012, we expect to achieve year-over-year revenue growth in 2013, which will, in turn, contribute to our overall cash flow growth.

We expect that our cash flows from operations coupled with cash available from the Revolver are sufficient to satisfy our foreseeable working capital requirements, capital expenditures, dividend payments and debt service requirements for the next 12 months. However, if we determine to increase the level of success-based capital expenditures in support of enterprise and carrier data revenue growth, we will increase borrowings against our Revolver by more than originally anticipated and could seek additional financing. We may explore financing options in 2013. We cannot be sure that we can obtain additional financing on favorable terms, if at all. Additional equity financing may dilute our stockholders, and debt financing, if available, may restrict our ability to declare and pay dividends and raise future capital. If we are unable to obtain additional needed financing, it may prohibit us from making these capital expenditures or making other investments in our business, which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations by limiting our growth potential.

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On February 23, 2012, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on our common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, which was paid on April 12, 2012 to stockholders of record on March 14, 2012 and totaled $3.0 million. On April 26, 2012, our board of directors declared a quarterly dividend on our common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, which was paid on July 12, 2012 to stockholders of record on June 14, 2012 and totaled $3.0 million. On August 2, 2012, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend on our common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, which was paid on October 12, 2012 to stockholders of record on September 14, 2012 and totaled $3.0 million. On November 1, 2012, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend on our common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, which was paid on January 11, 2013 to stockholders of record on December 14, 2012 and totaled $3.0 million. On February 27, 2013, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on our common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, to be paid on April 11, 2013.

Under the tax matters agreement entered into between us and NTELOS, we are generally required to indemnify NTELOS against any tax resulting from the Distribution to the extent that such tax resulted from any of the following events (among others): (1) an acquisition of all or a portion of our stock or assets, whether by merger or otherwise, (2) any negotiations, understandings, agreements or arrangements with respect to transactions or events that cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a 50% or greater interest in Lumos Networks, (3) certain other actions or failures to act by us, or (4) any breach by us of certain of our representations or undertakings. Our indemnification obligations to NTELOS and its subsidiaries, officers and directors are not limited by any maximum amount.

Pursuant to the separation and distribution agreement and certain other agreements with NTELOS, NTELOS agreed to indemnify us from certain liabilities, and we agreed to indemnify NTELOS for certain liabilities.

After considering the cost to service the Credit Facility as well as fund the anticipated level of capital expenditures and fund other routine items such as income taxes, interest and scheduled principal payments, we anticipate that we will generate sufficient cash flow to enable us to pay a regular quarterly dividend. All decisions regarding the declaration and payment of dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will be evaluated from time to time in light of our financial condition, earnings, growth prospects, funding requirements and restrictions under our credit agreement, applicable law and other factors our board deems relevant.

Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments

We have contractual obligations and commercial commitments that may affect our financial condition. The following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations and commercial commitments as of December 31, 2012:

	Payments Due by Period
(In thousands)	Total (2)		Less than one year		Two to three years		Four to five years		After five years
Long-term debt obligations (1), (3)	$	311,022	$	7,500	$	20,500	$	283,022	$	—
Capital lease obligations (3)		1,203		400		611		193		—
Operating lease obligations		5,376		950		1,525		1,186		1,715
Purchase obligations	$	6,621	$	6,621	$	—	$	—	$	—

⁽¹⁾  Represents the borrowings under the Credit Facility (see Note 5 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data).

⁽²⁾  Excludes certain benefit obligation projected payments under our qualified and non-qualified pension and other post retirement benefit plans (see Note 11 in Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data).

⁽³⁾  Excludes interest.

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any off balance sheet arrangements or financing activities with special purpose entities.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The fundamental objective of financial reporting is to provide useful information that allows a reader to comprehend our business activities. To aid in that understanding, management has identified our critical accounting policies for discussion herein. These policies have the potential to have a more significant impact on our financial statements, either because of the significance of the financial statement item to which they relate, or because they require judgment and estimation due to the uncertainty involved in measuring, at a specific point in time, events which are continuous in nature.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, Lumos Networks Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and all of Lumos Networks Operating Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries and those limited liability corporations where Lumos Networks Operating Company or certain of its subsidiaries, as managing member, exercised control. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

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For all periods prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, the consolidated financial statements principally represent the financial results reflected by NTELOS constituting the companies comprising the Competitive and RLEC wireline segments. These financial results as of and for the periods prior to the date of the Business Separation have been adjusted to reflect certain corporate expenses which were not previously allocated to the segments. These allocations primarily represent corporate support functions, including but not limited to accounting, human resources, information technology and executive management, as well as corporate legal and professional fees, including audit fees, and equity-based compensation expense related to equity-based awards granted to employees in corporate support functions. We believe that these costs would not have been materially different had they been calculated on a standalone basis. However, such expenses are not indicative of the actual level of expense and exclude certain expenses that would have been incurred by us if we had operated as an independent, publicly traded company nor are they comparable to the expenses incurred in 2012. As such, the financial information herein may not necessarily reflect our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in the future or what it would have been had we been an independent, publicly traded company through October 31, 2011.

Revenue Recognition

We recognize revenue when services are rendered or when products are delivered, installed and functional, as applicable. Certain of our services require payment in advance of service performance. In such cases, we record a service liability at the time of billing and subsequently recognize revenue ratably over the service period. We bill customers certain transactional taxes on service revenues. These transactional taxes are not included in reported revenues as they are recognized as liabilities at the time customers are billed.

We earn revenue by providing services through access to and usage of our networks. Local service and airtime revenues are recognized as services are provided. Carrier data revenues are earned by providing switched access and other switched and dedicated services, including wireless roamer management, to other carriers. Revenues for equipment sales are recognized at the point of sale.

We periodically make claims for recovery of access charges on certain minutes of use terminated by us on behalf of other carriers. We recognize revenue in the period when it is determined that the amounts can be estimated and collection is reasonably assured.

Trade Accounts Receivable

We sell our services to business, residential and telecommunication carrier customers primarily in Virginia, West Virginia and in parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. We have credit and collection policies to maximize collection of trade receivables and we require deposits on certain sales. We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts based on historical results, current and expected trends and changes in credit policies. Management believes the allowance adequately covers all anticipated losses with respect to trade receivables. Actual credit losses could differ from such estimates.

Property, Plant and Equipment and Other Long-Lived Assets (Excluding Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets)

Property, plant and equipment, finite-lived intangible assets and long-term deferred charges are recorded at cost and are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount should be evaluated pursuant to the subsequent measurement guidance described in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 360-10-35. Impairment is determined by comparing the carrying value of these long-lived assets to management’s best estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the assets. If the carrying value exceeds the estimated undiscounted cash flows, the excess of the asset’s carrying value over the estimated fair value is recorded as an impairment charge.

In 2011, the Company determined that the fair value of the RLEC segment assets, including property, plant and equipment and finite-lived intangible assets, was lower than the carrying value as a result of the revaluation of assets performed in connection with the Business Separation as of October 31, 2011. Accordingly, an impairment charge was recorded for $20.9 million ($12.7 million net of tax).

The Company believes that no impairment indicators exist as of December 31, 2012 that would require it to perform impairment testing for long-lived assets, including property, plant and equipment, long-term deferred charges and finite-lived intangible assets to be held and used.

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment is calculated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which we review and update based on historical experiences and future expectations. Buildings are depreciated over a 50-year life and leasehold improvements, which are categorized in land and buildings, are depreciated over the shorter of the estimated useful lives or the remaining lease terms. Network plant and equipment are depreciated over various lives from 3 to 50 years, with a weighted average life of approximately 14 years. Furniture, fixtures and other equipment are depreciated over various lives from 2 to 24 years.

Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets

Goodwill and franchise rights are considered to be indefinite-lived intangible assets. Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not subject to amortization but are instead tested for impairment annually or more frequently if an event indicates that the asset might be impaired. We assess the recoverability of indefinite-lived assets annually on October 1 and whenever adverse events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may have occurred.

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We use a two-step process to test for goodwill impairment. Step one requires a determination of the fair value of each of the reporting units and, to the extent that this fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value (including goodwill), the step two calculation of implied fair value of goodwill is not required and no impairment loss is recognized. In testing for goodwill impairment, we utilize a combination of a discounted cash flow model and an analysis which allocates enterprise value to the reporting units. Our annual testing is performed as of October 1 of each year.

In 2011, we recorded a $65.4 million asset impairment charge ($53.0 million after tax) after concluding that both the RLEC goodwill and franchise rights intangible asset were fully impaired. We determined that there was no impairment of the Competitive segment goodwill in 2011.

In 2012, we adopted FASB Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment, which permits an entity to take a qualitative approach to determining whether it is more likely than not that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount before applying the two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test promulgated by FASB ASC Topic 350. After a preliminary assessment of quantitative factors we elected not to use this option for our 2012 testing and applied the two-step quantitative process as described above. Based on the results of this annual impairment testing performed as of October 1, 2012, we determined that the fair value of the Competitive segment reporting unit substantially exceeds its carrying amount and that no impairment exists.

Pension Benefits and Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

We sponsor a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan (“Pension Plan”) covering all employees who meet eligibility requirements and were employed by NTELOS Inc. prior to October 1, 2003. The Pension Plan was closed to NTELOS Inc. employees hired on or after October 1, 2003. Pension benefits vest after five years of plan service and are based on years of service and an average of the five highest consecutive years of compensation subject to certain reductions if the employee retires before reaching age 65 and elects to receive the benefit prior to age 65.

Effective December 31, 2012, the Company froze the Pension Plan in conjunction with a cost reduction plan that was announced in mid-December 2012 and also included an employee reduction-in-force and consolidation of certain facilities. As such, no further benefits will be accrued by plan participants for services rendered after this date.

Sections 412 and 430 of the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA Sections 302 and 303 establish minimum funding requirements for defined benefit pension plans. The minimum required contribution is generally equal to the target normal cost plus the shortfall amortization installments for the current plan year and each of the six preceding plan years less any calculated credit balance. If plan assets (less calculated credits) are equal to or exceed the funding target, the minimum required contribution is the target normal cost reduced by the excess funding, but not below zero. Our policy is to make contributions to stay at or above the threshold required in order to prevent benefit restrictions and related additional notice requirements and is intended to provide for benefits to be paid in the future. Also, we have nonqualified pension plans that are accounted for similar to its Pension Plan.

We provide certain health care and life benefits for retired employees that meet eligibility requirements. We have two qualified nonpension postretirement benefit plans. The health care plan is contributory, with participants’ contributions adjusted annually. The life insurance plan is also contributory. These obligations, along with all of the pension plans and other post retirement benefit plans, are assumed by us. Eligibility for the life insurance plan is restricted to active pension participants age 50-64 as of January 5, 1994. Neither plan is eligible to employees hired after April 1993. The accounting for the plans anticipates that we will maintain a consistent level of cost sharing for the benefits with the retirees. Our share of the projected costs of benefits that will be paid after retirement is generally being accrued by charges to expense over the eligible employees’ service periods to the dates they are fully eligible for benefits.

We also sponsor a contributory defined contribution plan under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) for substantially all employees. Our policy is to match 100% of each participant’s annual contributions for contributions up to 1% of each participant’s annual compensation and 50% of each participant’s annual contributions up to an additional 5% of each participant’s annual compensation. Company contributions vest after two years of service. We fund our 401(k) matching contributions in shares of our common stock.

Income Taxes

Deferred income taxes are provided on an asset and liability method whereby deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences. Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment. We accrue interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and income tax expense, respectively. Prior to the Business Separation, our income taxes were included in the NTELOS consolidated federal income tax return and certain unitary or consolidated state income tax returns of NTELOS Holdings Corp. However, our income taxes were calculated and provided for on an “as if separate” tax return basis.

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-04, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRS. ASU No. 2011-04 was issued concurrently with IFRS 13, Fair Value Measurement, to provide largely identical guidance about fair value measurement and disclosure requirements. The new standards do not extend the use of fair value but, rather, provide guidance on how fair value should be applied where it already is required or permitted under IFRS or U.S. GAAP. For U.S. GAAP, most of the changes are clarifications of existing guidance or wording changes to align with IFRS 13. This ASU was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2012. This pronouncement did not have a material impact on our valuation techniques and related inputs.

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income. This ASU increases the prominence of other comprehensive income in financial statements. Under this ASU, an entity has the option to present the components of net income and comprehensive income in either one or two consecutive financial statements. The ASU eliminates the option in U.S. GAAP to present other comprehensive income in the statement of changes in equity. An entity should apply this ASU retrospectively. This ASU was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2012. We have complied with the requirements of this pronouncement by providing a consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss), which follows the consolidated statement of operations in this annual report on Form 10-K.

In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment. This ASU permits an entity to make a qualitative assessment of whether it is more likely than not that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount before applying the two-step goodwill impairment test. If an entity can support the conclusion that it is not more than likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, it would not need to perform the two-step impairment test for that reporting unit. This ASU was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2012. We considered the provisions of this ASU during our annual goodwill impairment testing performed as of October 1, 2012, however there were no significant changes to our methods employed or the conclusions reached as a result of adopting this standard in 2012.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

We are exposed to market risks primarily related to interest rates. We paid the $177.1 million balance due to NTELOS Inc. on the effective date of the Business Separation (October 31, 2011) by entering into the $370 million post-Business Separation credit facility. As of December 31, 2012, $311.0 million was outstanding under our Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2012, we had a leverage ratio of 3.50:1.00 and an interest coverage ratio 8.00:1.00, both of which are favorable to any future covenant requirement. We have other fixed rate, long-term debt in the form of capital leases totaling $1.2 million as of December 31, 2012.

Under the terms of our Credit Facility, we were required to enter into an interest rate hedge for three years on 50% of the term loans (approximately $154 million). In February 2012, we entered into a 3% interest rate CAP for February 2012 through December 31, 2012 and a delayed interest rate swap agreement from December 31, 2012 through December 31, 2015 whereby we swap three-month LIBOR with a fixed rate of approximately 0.8% on 50% of the term loan balances outstanding. We will be exposed to interest rate risk on the remaining 50% of the term loan balances and 100% of the revolver outstanding balance. We do not purchase or hold any financial derivative instruments for trading purposes. We recorded losses of $1.9 million due to the change in the market value of the interest rate derivatives between inception in February 2012 and December 31, 2012.

At December 31, 2012, our financial assets in the combined balance sheets included unrestricted cash of less than $0.1 million. Other securities and investments totaled $0.5 million at December 31, 2012.

The following sensitivity analysis indicates the impact at December 31, 2012, on the fair value of certain financial instruments, which would be potentially subject to material market risks, assuming a ten percent increase and a ten percent decrease in the levels of our interest rates:

(In thousands)	Book Value		Fair Value		Estimated fair value assuming noted decrease in market pricing		Estimated fair value assuming noted increase in market pricing
Credit Facility	$	311,022	$	320,739	$	321,735	$	319,722
Capital lease obligations	$	1,203	$	1,203	$	1,324	$	1,083

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

LUMOS NETWORKS CORP.

INDEX TO AUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm	42
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2012 and 2011	44
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010	46
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December  31, 2012, 2011 and 2010	47
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010	48
Consolidated Statements of Equity for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010	49
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements	50

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Lumos Networks Corp.:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Lumos Networks Corp. (the Company) as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows, and equity for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Lumos Networks Corp. as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated March 8, 2013 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Richmond, Virginia

March 8, 2013

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Lumos Networks Corp.:

We have audited Lumos Networks Corp.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Lumos Networks Corp.’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, Lumos Networks Corp. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of Lumos Networks Corp. as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows, and equity for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012, and our report dated March 8, 2013 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Richmond, Virginia

March 8, 2013

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Consolidated Balance Sheets

Lumos Networks Corp.

(In thousands)	December 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Assets
Current Assets
Cash	$	2	$	10,547
Restricted cash		5,303		7,554
Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $1,822 ($2,822 in 2011)		22,676		23,555
Other receivables		2,400		2,390
Income tax receivable		954		—
Prepaid expenses and other		5,136		2,278
Total Current Assets		36,471		46,324
Securities and Investments		462		128
Property, Plant and Equipment
Land and buildings		19,489		22,833
Network plant and equipment		419,176		365,101
Furniture, fixtures and other equipment		22,070		13,069
Total in service		460,735		401,003
Under construction		19,764		18,200
		480,499		419,203
Less accumulated depreciation		143,910		119,245
Total Property, Plant and Equipment, net		336,589		299,958
Other Assets
Goodwill		100,297		100,297
Other intangibles, less accumulated amortization of $72,876 ($61,742 in 2011)		34,895		45,696
Deferred charges and other assets		4,448		6,197
Total Other Assets		139,640		152,190
Total Assets	$	513,162	$	498,600

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Balance Sheets

Lumos Networks Corp.

(In thousands, except par value per share amounts)	December 31, 2012			December 31, 2011
Liabilities and Equity
Current Liabilities
Current portion of long-term debt	$	7,900		$	2,679
Accounts payable		17,453			12,432
Dividends payable		3,013			2,980
Advance billings and customer deposits		13,527			12,623
Accrued compensation		1,742			2,832
Accrued operating taxes		3,838			2,624
Other accrued liabilities		6,284			3,262
Total Current Liabilities		53,757			39,432
Long-term Liabilities
Long-term debt		304,325			323,897
Retirement benefits		30,413			35,728
Deferred income taxes		55,956			41,204
Other long-term liabilities		3,500			5,028
Income tax payable		609			484
Total Long-term Liabilities		394,803			406,341
Commitments and Contingencies
Equity
Preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, authorized 100 shares, none issued		—			—
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share, authorized 55,000 shares; 21,610 shares issued and 21,498 shares outstanding (21,235 shares issued and 21,170 shares outstanding in 2011)		216			212
Additional paid in capital		129,570			126,427
Treasury stock, 112 shares at cost (65 shares in 2011)		—			—
Accumulated deficit		(53,060	)		(57,416	)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss		(12,676	)		(16,840	)
Total Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders’ Equity		64,050			52,383
Noncontrolling Interests		552			444
Total Equity		64,602			52,827
Total Liabilities and Equity	$	513,162		$	498,600

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Operations

Lumos Networks Corp.

	Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands, except per share amounts)	2012			2011			2010
Operating Revenues	$	206,871		$	207,414		$	145,964
Operating Expenses
Cost of sales and services (exclusive of items shown separately below)		80,520			78,484			46,407
Customer operations		21,886			19,551			13,243
Corporate operations		23,615			16,251			13,809
Depreciation and amortization		38,884			43,090			31,365
Asset impairment charge		—			86,295			—
Accretion of asset retirement obligations		124			116			11
Restructuring charges		2,981			—			—
Gain on settlements, net		(2,335	)		—			—
Total Operating Expenses, net		165,675			243,787			104,835
Operating Income (Loss)		41,196			(36,373	)		41,129
Other Income (Expenses)
Interest expense		(11,921	)		(11,993	)		(5,752	)
Loss on interest rate derivatives		(1,898	)		—			—
Other income, net		81			105			43
Total Other Expenses, net		(13,738	)		(11,888	)		(5,709	)
Income (Loss) Before Income Tax Expense		27,458			(48,261	)		35,420
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)		11,010			(4,383	)		14,477
Net Income (Loss)		16,448			(43,878	)		20,943
Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests		(108	)		(52	)		(119	)
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$	16,340		$	(43,930	)	$	20,824
Basic and Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.
(Pro Forma and Unaudited for 2011)
Earnings (loss) per share-basic	$	0.78		$	(2.11	)
Earnings (loss) per share-diluted	$	0.76		$	(2.11	)
Weighted average shares outstanding - basic		20,958			20,815
Weighted average shares outstanding - diluted		21,407			20,815
Cash Dividends Declared per Share - Common Stock	$	0.56		$	0.14

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

Lumos Networks Corp.

	Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands)	2012			2011			2010
Net Income (Loss)	$	16,448		$	(43,878	)	$	20,943
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax:
Net unrecognized gain (loss) from defined benefit plans, net of $1,958, $(1,813) and $0 of deferred income tax liability (asset) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively		3,076			(2,847	)		—
Reclassification adjustment for amortization of unrealized loss from defined benefit plans included in net income, net of $693, $77 and $0 of deferred income tax asset for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively		1,088			120			—
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax		4,164			(2,727	)		—
Total Comprehensive Income (Loss)		20,612			(46,605	)		20,943
Less: Comprehensive Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests		(108	)		(52	)		(119	)
Comprehensive Income (Loss) Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$	20,504		$	(46,657	)	$	20,824

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

Lumos Networks Corp

	Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands)	2012			2011			2010
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income (loss)	$	16,448		$	(43,878	)	$	20,943
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation		27,750			27,703			22,738
Amortization		11,134			15,387			8,627
Accretion of asset retirement obligations		124			116			11
Asset impairment charge		—			86,295			—
Deferred income taxes		10,514			(8,110	)		3,463
Loss on interest rate swap derivatives		1,898			—			—
Equity-based compensation expense		3,912			2,383			1,529
Amortization of loan origination costs		812			132			—
Gain on settlement		(3,035	)		—			—
Retirement benefits, net of contributions and distributions		665			(4,059	)		(2,156	)
Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation		(428	)		—			—
Changes in assets and liabilities from operations:
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable		218			(2,082	)		1,175
(Increase) decrease in other current assets		(3,503	)		297			(320	)
Changes in income taxes		99			3,727			593
Increase in accounts payable		1,946			425			901
Increase in other current liabilities		3,661			4,572			1,473
Net cash provided by operating activities		72,215			82,908			58,977
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of property, plant and equipment		(59,881	)		(61,536	)		(40,254	)
Broadband network expansion funded by stimulus grant		(1,351	)		(2,248	)		(692	)
Proceeds from disposal of managed services business		750			—			—
Purchase of FiberNet, net of cash acquired of $221 and working capital and other adjustments of $6,440		—			—			(162,283	)
Change in restricted cash		2,251			508			(8,062	)
Cash reimbursement received from broadband stimulus grant		2,251			508			—
Purchase of tradename asset		(333	)		—			—
Other		(26	)		—			—
Net cash used in investing activities		(56,339	)		(62,768	)		(211,291	)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt		—			310,000			—
Proceeds from issuance of revolving credit facility		—			30,000			—
Payment of debt issuance costs		—			(4,854	)		—
Cash paid to NTELOS Inc. associated with the Business Separation		—			(315,000	)		—
Payments on senior secured term loans		(2,000	)		(500	)		—
Payments on revolving credit facility		(11,478	)		(15,000	)		—
Cash dividends paid on common stock		(11,951	)		—			—
(Payment to) borrowings from NTELOS Inc., net		—			(14,357	)		153,106
Payments under capital lease obligations		(1,542	)		(317	)		(306	)
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan		122			—			—
Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation		428			—			—
Other		—			(54	)		—
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities		(26,421	)		(10,082	)		152,800
(Decrease) increase in cash		(10,545	)		10,058			486
Cash:
Beginning of period		10,547			489			3
End of period	$	2		$	10,547		$	489

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Equity

Lumos Networks Corp.

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Common Shares		Treasury Shares		Common Stock		Additional Paid-in Capital			Treasury Stock		Accumulated Deficit			Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss			Business Equity			Total Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders’ Equity			Noncontrolling Interests		Total Equity
Balance, December 31, 2009		—		—	$	—	$	—		$	—	$	—		$	—		$	272,681		$	272,681		$	273	$	272,954
Net income attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.																			20,824			20,824					20,824
Equity-based compensation expense																			1,529			1,529					1,529
Dividends paid to NTELOS Communications, Inc.																			(29,240	)		(29,240	)				(29,240	)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests																									119		119
Balance, December 31, 2010		—		—		—		—			—		—			—			265,794			265,794			392		266,186
Allocation of beginning of year business equity in connection with the Business Separation								262,155					3,639						(265,794	)		—					—
Spin-off from NTELOS Holdings Corp.		21,223				212		(138,107	)							(14,113	)					(152,008	)				(152,008	)
Net loss attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.													(43,930	)								(43,930	)				(43,930	)
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax																(2,727	)					(2,727	)				(2,727	)
Equity-based compensation expense								1,694														1,694					1,694
Restricted shares issued, shares issued through the employee stock purchase plan and 401(k) matching contributions and stock options exercised (net of shares reacquired through restricted stock forfeits)		12		65				685														685					685
Cash dividends declared ($0.14 per share)													(2,980	)								(2,980	)				(2,980	)
Dividends paid to NTELOS Communications, Inc.													(14,145	)								(14,145	)				(14,145	)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest																									52		52
Balance, December 31, 2011		21,235		65		212		126,427			—		(57,416	)		(16,840	)		—			52,383			444		52,827
Adjustments related to spin-off from NTELOS Holdings Corp.								(1,337	)													(1,337	)				(1,337	)
Net income attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.													16,340									16,340					16,340
Other comprehensive income, net of tax																4,164						4,164					4,164
Equity-based compensation expense								3,065														3,065					3,065
Adjustments to excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation								428														428					428
Restricted shares issued, shares issued through the employee stock purchase plan, and 401(k) matching contributions (net of shares reacquired through restricted stock forfeits)		375		47		4		987														991					991
Cash dividends declared ($0.56 per share)													(11,984	)								(11,984	)				(11,984	)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests																						—			108		108
Balance, December 31, 2012		21,610		112	$	216	$	129,570		$	—	$	(53,060	)	$	(12,676	)	$	—		$	64,050		$	552	$	64,602

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Lumos Networks Corp.

Note 1. Organization

Lumos Networks is a fiber-based network service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region with a network of long-haul fiber, metro Ethernet and Ethernet rings located primarily in Virginia and West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. We serve carrier, business and residential customers over our fiber network offering data, voice and IP services. Our principal products and services include metro Ethernet, which provides Ethernet connectivity among multiple locations in the same city or region over our fiber optic network, high-capacity private line and wavelength services, which provide a means to efficiently utilize fiber in broadband applications and provide high-capacity bandwidth, IP services and business and residential telephone local and long-distance services.

On October 14, 2011, NTELOS Holdings Corp. (“NTELOS”) announced a distribution date of October 31, 2011 for the spin-off of all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Lumos Networks, which operated NTELOS’s wireline operations (the “Business Separation”). Prior to and in connection with the Business Separation, following the market close on October 31, 2011, NTELOS effectuated a 1-for-2 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of its shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value. The spin-off of Lumos Networks was in the form of a tax-free stock distribution to NTELOS stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 24, 2011, the record date (the “Distribution”). On October 31, 2011, NTELOS distributed one share of Lumos Networks common stock for every share of NTELOS’s common stock outstanding, on a post-Reverse Stock Split basis.

On December 1, 2010, the Company acquired from One Communications Corp. (“OCC”) all of the membership interest of Mountaineer Telecommunication, LLC (hereinafter referred to as “FiberNet”) for net cash consideration at closing of $162.5 million. FiberNet is a facility-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (“CLEC”) headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia. FiberNet offers voice, data, and IP-based services in West Virginia and portions of Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky and had approximately 30,000 customer accounts as of the acquisition date and has an extensive fiber network. The FiberNet network provides enhancements that add diversity and capacity to the Company’s combined network of approximately 5,800 route-miles and the increased density provides immediate access to more enterprise customers in new tier two and tier three markets. NTELOS Inc. funded the acquisition through a combination of a $125 million incremental term loan under its existing senior secured credit facility and cash on hand. The $162.5 million net cash outlay for this purchase transaction was funded by Lumos Networks through an increase to its intercompany obligation with NTELOS Inc., which obligation was settled on October 31, 2011 through the aforementioned $315 million cash payment to NTELOS. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, $5.0 million of the purchase price was put in escrow. All outstanding matter related to the acquisition have been settled between the parties and escrow funds released as of December 31, 2012. The Company finalized its acquisition accounting related to the purchase of FiberNet and recorded necessary purchase accounting adjustments prior to December 1, 2011.

In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company sold the assets comprising the former managed services business of FiberNet to an unrelated third-party for a total purchase price of $1.0 million, $0.8 million of which was received in cash upon consummation of the sale and the remaining $0.2 million was placed in escrow in accordance with the terms of the agreement.

Note 2. Relationship with NTELOS

In connection with the Business Separation, the Company entered into a series of agreements with NTELOS which are intended to govern the relationship between the Company and NTELOS going forward. These agreements include commercial service agreements, a separation and distribution agreement, an employee matters agreement, a tax matters agreement, intellectual property agreements and a transition services agreement. During the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, the net expense to the Company related to the transition services agreement was $1.5 million and $0.4 million, respectively. See Note 14 regarding related party transactions with NTELOS.

Under the tax matters agreement entered into between NTELOS and the Company, the Company is generally required to indemnify NTELOS against any tax resulting from the Distribution to the extent that such tax resulted from any of the following events (among others): (1) an acquisition of all or a portion of our stock or assets, whether by merger or otherwise, (2) any negotiations, understandings, agreements or arrangements with respect to transactions or events that cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a 50% or greater interest in Lumos Networks, (3) certain other actions or failures to act by the Company, or (4) any breach by the Company of certain of its representations or undertakings. The Company’s indemnification obligations to NTELOS and its subsidiaries, officers and directors are not limited by any maximum amount.

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Pursuant to the separation and distribution agreement and certain other agreements with NTELOS, NTELOS agreed to indemnify the Company from certain liabilities, and the Company agreed to indemnify NTELOS for certain liabilities.

Note 3. Significant Accounting Policies

Accounting Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Additionally, the financial information for 2011 and 2010 included herein may not necessarily reflect the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows in the future or what the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows would have been had Lumos Networks been an independent, publicly traded company prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, Lumos Networks Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and all of Lumos Networks Operating Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries and those limited liability corporations where Lumos Networks Operating Company or certain of its subsidiaries, as managing member, exercised control. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

For all periods prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, the consolidated financial statements principally represent the financial results reflected by NTELOS constituting the companies comprising the Competitive and RLEC wireline segments. These financial results as of and for the periods prior to the date of the Business Separation have been adjusted to reflect certain corporate expenses which were not previously allocated to the segments. These allocations primarily represent corporate support functions, including but not limited to accounting, human resources, information technology and executive management, as well as corporate legal and professional fees, including audit fees, and equity-based compensation expense related to equity-based awards granted to employees in corporate support functions and executive management. These additional expenses for the ten months ended October 31, 2011 were $2.6 million and for the year ended December 31, 2010 were $5.1 million (inclusive of $2.8 million of acquisition-related costs). The Company believes that these costs would not have been materially different had they been calculated on a standalone basis. However, such costs are not indicative of the actual level of expense and exclude certain expenses that would have been incurred by the Company if it had operated as an independent, publicly traded company nor are they comparable to the expenses incurred in 2012.

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenue when services are rendered or when products are delivered, installed and functional, as applicable. Certain services of the Company require payment in advance of service performance. In such cases, the Company records a service liability at the time of billing and subsequently recognizes revenue ratably over the service period. The Company bills customers certain transactional taxes on service revenues. These transactional taxes are not included in reported revenues as they are recognized as liabilities at the time customers are billed.

The Company earns revenue by providing services through access to and usage of its networks. Local service revenues are recognized as services are provided. Carrier data revenues are earned by providing switched access and other switched and dedicated services, including wireless roamer management, to other carriers. Revenues for equipment sales are recognized at the point of sale.

The Company periodically makes claims for recovery of access charges on certain minutes of use terminated by the Company on behalf of other carriers. The Company recognizes revenue in the period when it is determined that the amounts can be estimated and collection is reasonably assured.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers its investment in all highly liquid debt instruments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company places its temporary cash investments with high credit quality financial institutions with a maturity date of not greater than 90 days from acquisition and all are investments held by commercial banks. At times, such investments may be in excess of the FDIC insurance limit. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company did not have any cash equivalents.

As of December 31, 2012, all of the Company’s cash was held in non-interest bearing deposit accounts. Total interest income related to cash was negligible for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010.

The Company utilizes a zero balance arrangement for its master cash account against a swingline facility that the Company has with its primary commercial bank. As of December 31, 2012, the Company reclassified its book overdraft related to this master cash account of $1.8 million to Accounts Payable on the consolidated balance sheet. The Company has classified this overdraft in cash flows from operating activities on the consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2012.

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Restricted Cash

During 2010, the Company received a federal broadband stimulus award to bring broadband services and infrastructure to Alleghany County, Virginia. The total project is $16.1 million, of which 50% (approximately $8 million) is being funded by a grant from the federal government. The project is expected to be completed before September 30, 2015. The Company was required to deposit 100% of its portion for the grant (approximately $8 million) into a pledged account in advance of any reimbursements, which can be drawn down ratably following the grant reimbursement approvals which are contingent on adherence to the program requirements. The Company received $2.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2012 and $0.5 million in 2011 for the reimbursable portion of the qualified recoverable expenditures to date. The Company has a $1.5 million receivable for the reimbursable portion of the qualified recoverable expenditures through December 31, 2012. At December 31, 2012, the Company’s pledged account balance was $5.3 million. This escrow account is a non-interest bearing account with the Company’s primary commercial bank.

Trade Accounts Receivable

The Company sells its services to commercial and residential end-users and to other communication carriers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia and portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. The Company has credit and collection policies to maximize collection of trade receivables and requires deposits on certain sales. The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts based on historical results, current and expected trends and changes in credit policies. Management believes the allowance adequately covers all anticipated losses with respect to trade receivables. Actual credit losses could differ from such estimates. The Company includes bad debt expense in customer operations expense in the consolidated statements of operations. Bad debt expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $0.6 million, $1.0 million and $0.3 million, respectively. The Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts was $1.8 million and $2.8 million as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Property, Plant and Equipment and Other Long-Lived Assets (Excluding Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets)

Property, plant and equipment, finite-lived intangible assets and long-term deferred charges are recorded at cost and are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount should be evaluated pursuant to the subsequent measurement guidance described in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 360-10-35. Impairment is determined by comparing the carrying value of these long-lived assets to management’s best estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the assets. If the carrying value exceeds the estimated undiscounted cash flows, the excess of the asset’s carrying value over the estimated fair value is recorded as an impairment charge.

In 2011, the Company determined that the fair value of the RLEC segment assets, including property, plant and equipment and finite-lived intangible assets, was lower than the carrying value as a result of the revaluation of assets performed in connection with the Business Separation as of October 31, 2011. An impairment charge was recorded for $20.9 million ($12.7 million net of tax), which is included in the line item “asset impairment charges” on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011. The allocation of the impairment charge was as follows:

(In thousands)	2011
Property, plant and equipment	$	16,032
Customer intangible		4,661
Trademark		164
Total impairment	$	20,857

The Company believes that no impairment indicators exist as of December 31, 2012 that would require it to perform impairment testing for long-lived assets, including property, plant and equipment, long-term deferred charges and finite-lived intangible assets to be held and used.

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment is calculated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which the Company reviews and updates based on historical experiences and future expectations. At December 31, 2012, the Company revised the useful lives of certain leasehold improvements as a result of the termination of a building lease. The Company recognized accelerated depreciation costs of $1.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 as a result of this change in estimate.

Intangibles with a finite life are classified as other intangibles on the consolidated balance sheets. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, other intangibles were comprised of the following:

		2012					2011
(Dollars in thousands)	Estimated Life	Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization
Customer relationships	3 to 15 yrs	$	103,153	$	(69,734	)	$	103,153	$	(59,286	)
Trademarks	0.5 to 15 yrs		3,518		(2,042	)		3,186		(1,884	)
Non-compete agreement	2 yrs		1,100		(1,100	)		1,100		(572	)
Total		$	107,771	$	(72,876	)	$	107,439	$	(61,742	)

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The Company amortizes its finite-lived intangible assets using the straight-line method unless it determines that another systematic method is more appropriate. The amortization for certain customer relationship intangibles is being recognized using an accelerated amortization method based on the pattern of estimated earnings from these assets.

The estimated life of amortizable intangible assets is determined from the unique factors specific to each asset and the Company reviews and updates estimated lives based on current events and future expectations. The Company capitalizes costs incurred to renew or extend the term of a recognized intangible asset and amortizes such costs over the remaining life of the asset. No such costs were incurred during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 or 2010. Amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $11.1 million, $15.4 million and $8.6 million, respectively.

Amortization expense for the next five years is expected to be as follows:

(In thousands)	Customer Relationships		Trademarks		Total
2013	$	9,665	$	159	$	9,824
2014		9,028		159		9,187
2015		4,648		159		4,807
2016		2,416		159		2,575
2017		2,097		159		2,256

Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets

Goodwill and franchise rights are considered to be indefinite-lived intangible assets. Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not subject to amortization but are instead tested for impairment annually or more frequently if an event indicates that the asset might be impaired. The Company policy is to assess the recoverability of indefinite-lived assets annually on October 1 and whenever adverse events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may have occurred.

The Company uses a two-step process to test for goodwill impairment. Step one requires a determination of the fair value of each of the reporting units and, to the extent that the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value (including goodwill), the step two calculation of implied fair value of goodwill is not required and no impairment loss is recognized. In testing for goodwill impairment, the Company utilizes a combination of a discounted cash flow model and an analysis which allocates enterprise value to the reporting units.

In 2011, based on its ASC 360-10-35 testing, the Company determined that both the goodwill and the franchise rights for the RLEC segment were fully impaired. As a result, the Company recorded a $65.4 million asset impairment charge ($53.0 million after tax), which is included in the line item “asset impairment charges” on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012. The Company determined that there was no impairment of the Competitive segment goodwill in 2011 as the fair value of the reporting unit substantially exceeded its carrying value.

In 2012, the Company adopted FASB Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment, which permits an entity to take a qualitative approach to determining whether it is more likely than not that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount before applying the two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test promulgated by FASB ASC Topic 350. After a preliminary assessment of quantitative factors the Company elected not to use this option for our 2012 testing and applied the two-step quantitative process as described above. Based on the results of this annual impairment testing performed as of October 1, 2012, the Company determined that the fair value of the Competitive segment reporting unit substantially exceeds its carrying amount and that no impairment exists.

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The following table presents the activity in goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011.

	2012							2011
(In thousands)	Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss			Net Goodwill		Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss			Net Goodwill
Beginning balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438	)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	—		$	133,735
Impairment of goodwill in the RLEC segment		—		—			—		—		(33,438	)		(33,438	)
Ending balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438	)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	(33,438	)	$	100,297

Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations

An asset retirement obligation is evaluated and recorded as appropriate on assets for which the Company has a legal obligation to retire. The Company records a liability for an asset retirement obligation and the associated asset retirement cost at the time the underlying asset is acquired. Subsequent to the initial measurement of the asset retirement obligation, the obligation is adjusted at the end of each period to reflect the passage of time and changes in the estimated future cash flows underlying the obligation.

The Company enters into various facility co-location agreements and is subject to locality franchise ordinances. The Company constructs assets at these locations and, in accordance with the terms of many of these agreements, the Company is obligated to restore the premises to their original condition at the conclusion of the agreements, generally at the demand of the other party to these agreements. The Company recognizes the fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation and capitalizes that cost as part of the cost basis of the related asset, depreciating it over the useful life of the related asset.

Included in certain of the franchise ordinances under which the RLECs and CLECs operate are clauses that require the removal of the RLEC’s and CLEC’s equipment at the termination of the franchise agreement. The Company has not recognized an asset retirement obligation for these liabilities as the removal of the equipment is not estimable due to an indeterminable end date and the fact that the equipment is part of the public switched telephone network and it is not reasonable to assume the jurisdictions would require its removal.

The following table indicates the changes to the Company’s asset retirement obligation liability, which is included in other long-term liabilities, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

(In thousands)	2012			2011
Asset retirement obligations, beginning	$	1,114		$	1,070
Additional asset retirement obligations recorded, net of adjustments in estimates		(2	)		(72	)
Accretion of asset retirement obligations		124			116
Asset retirement obligations, ending	$	1,236		$	1,114

Deferred Financing Costs

The Company incurred and paid $4.9 million of issuance costs related to the $370 million post-Business Separation credit facility, which was funded in 2011. These costs were deferred and are being amortized over the life of the related debt instrument using the effective interest method (Note 5). No such costs were incurred in 2012.

Advertising Costs

The Company expenses advertising costs and marketing production costs as incurred (included within customer operations expenses in the consolidated statements of operations). Advertising expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $1.1 million, $0.9 million and $0.5 million, respectively.

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Pension Benefits and Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

The Company sponsors a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan (“Pension Plan”) that was established on the date of the Business Separation from NTELOS when the Company assumed its portion of the assets and liabilities for the pension benefits of its employees. The Pension Plan covers all employees who meet eligibility requirements and were employed by NTELOS prior to October 1, 2003. The Pension Plan was closed to employees hired by NTELOS on or after October 1, 2003. Pension benefits vest after five years of plan service and are based on years of service and an average of the five highest consecutive years of compensation subject to certain reductions if the employee retires before reaching age 65 and elects to receive the benefit prior to age 65. Effective December 31, 2012, the Company made the decision to freeze the Pension Plan. As such, no further benefits will be accrued by participants for services rendered beyond this date.

Sections 412 and 430 of the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA Sections 302 and 303 establish minimum funding requirements for defined benefit pension plans. The minimum required contribution is generally equal to the target normal cost plus the shortfall amortization installments for the current plan year and each of the six preceding plan years less any calculated credit balance. If plan assets (less calculated credits) are equal to or exceed the funding target, the minimum required contribution is the target normal cost reduced by the excess funding, but not below zero. The Company’s policy is to make contributions to stay at or above the threshold required in order to prevent benefit restrictions and related additional notice requirements and is intended to provide for benefits to be paid in the future. Also, Lumos Networks has nonqualified pension plans that are accounted for similar to its Pension Plan.

The Company also provides certain health care and life benefits for retired employees that meet eligibility requirements. The Company has two qualified nonpension postretirement benefit plans. The health care plan is contributory, with participants’ contributions adjusted annually. The life insurance plan is also contributory. These obligations, along with all of the pension plans and other post retirement benefit plans, are assumed by the Company. In connection with the Business Separation, NTELOS transferred the portion of the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation. Eligibility for the life insurance plan is restricted to active pension participants age 50-64 as of January 5, 1994. Neither plan is eligible to employees hired after April 1993. The accounting for the plans anticipates that the Company will maintain a consistent level of cost sharing for the benefits with the retirees. The Company’s share of the projected costs of benefits that will be paid after retirement is generally being accrued by charges to expense over the eligible employees’ service periods to the dates they are fully eligible for benefits.

The Company sponsors a contributory defined contribution plan under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) for substantially all employees. In connection with the Business Separation, NTELOS transferred to the Company’s 401(k) plan an amount equal to the account balances of the Company’s employees and former employees in NTELOS’s 401(k) plan. Each of the Company’s participating employees was credited for all service accrued with NTELOS prior to such transfer for all purposes under the Company’s 401(k) plan. The Company’s policy is to match 100% of each participant’s annual contributions for contributions up to 1% of each participant’s annual compensation and 50% of each participant’s annual contributions up to an additional 5% of each participant’s annual compensation. Company contributions vest after two years of service.

Operating Leases

The Company has operating leases for administrative office space and equipment, certain of which have renewal options. These leases, with few exceptions, provide for automatic renewal options and escalations that are either fixed or based on the consumer price index. Any rent abatements, along with rent escalations, are included in the computation of rent expense calculated on a straight-line basis over the lease term. The Company’s minimum lease term for most leases includes the initial non-cancelable term and at least one renewal period to the extent that the exercise of the related renewal option or options is reasonably assured. A renewal option or options is determined to be reasonably assured if failure to renew the leases imposes an in-substance economic penalty on the Company. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the assets’ useful life or the lease term, including renewal option periods that are reasonably assured.

Income Taxes

Deferred income taxes are provided on an asset and liability method whereby deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences. Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment. The Company accrues interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and income tax expense, respectively. Prior to the Business Separation, the Company’s income taxes were included in the NTELOS consolidated federal income tax return and certain unitary or consolidated state income tax returns of NTELOS Holdings Corp. However, the Company’s income taxes were calculated and provided for on an “as if separate” tax return basis.

Equity-based Compensation

The Company accounts for share-based employee compensation plans under FASB ASC 718, Stock Compensation. Equity-based compensation expense from share-based equity awards is recorded with an offsetting increase to additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheet. For equity awards with only service conditions, the Company recognizes compensation cost on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.

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Equity awards prior to the Business Separation were granted in NTELOS stock instruments and the related expense was allocated to the Company. Unvested NTELOS stock instruments were converted to commensurate Lumos Networks stock instruments in connection with and at the time of the Business Separation. The fair value of the common stock options granted during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was estimated at the respective measurement date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with assumptions related to risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, dividend yield and expected terms.

Total equity-based compensation expense related to all of the share-based awards (Note 9) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and the Company’s 401(k) matching contributions was allocated as follows:

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cost of sales and services	$	645	$	314	$	230
Customer operations		712		419		297
Corporate operations		2,555		1,650		1,002
Equity-based compensation expense	$	3,912	$	2,383	$	1,529

Future charges for equity-based compensation related to instruments outstanding at December 31, 2012 for the years 2013 through 2017 are estimated to be $2.1 million, $2.1 million, $1.2 million, $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

Pro Forma Earnings (Loss) per Share (Unaudited)

The Company computes earnings (loss) per share based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock and dilutive potential common shares equivalents outstanding. Prior to November 1, 2011, the Company did not have any common stock outstanding and therefore, pro forma earnings (loss) per share for 2011 is calculated based on the two month period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011 and is not applicable for 2010.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income. This ASU increases the prominence of other comprehensive income in financial statements. Under this ASU, an entity has the option to present the components of net income and comprehensive income in either one or two consecutive financial statements. The ASU eliminates the option in U.S. GAAP to present other comprehensive income in the statement of changes in equity. An entity should apply this ASU retrospectively. This ASU was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2012. We have complied with the requirements of this pronouncement by providing a consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss), which follows the consolidated statement of operations in this annual report on Form 10-K.

Note 4. Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information

The Company manages its business with separate products and services in two segments as described below.

Competitive: The Company directly or indirectly owns approximately 5,800 long-haul miles of fiber optic network which it utilizes to provide broadband services to enterprise, carrier and residential customers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Kentucky. The Competitive segment derives revenue from three major product families: strategic data, legacy voice and access. Strategic data products include enterprise data (dedicated internet, metro Ethernet, and private line), carrier data (transport and fiber to the cell site) and IP services (integrated access, DSL, broadband XL, and IP-based video). Legacy voice includes local lines, PRI, long distance and legacy dial-up Internet services products. Access primarily includes switched access and reciprocal compensation. As noted in the RLEC section below, revenue and operating expenses from services sold in the RLEC service areas that relate to unregulated services are reported in the Competitive segment. The Competitive segment pays the RLEC tariff and prevailing market rates for these services, the revenue and expense of which are eliminated in consolidation.

RLEC: The Company has two RLEC businesses subject to the regulations of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia. These businesses serve several areas in western Virginia, are fully integrated and are managed as one consolidated operation. The RLEC segment derives revenue from two key product families: legacy voice (primarily local service and features, toll and directory advertising) and access. The RLEC also provides IP-based video services and high speed broadband Internet to customers in areas where it has deployed fiber to the home. Revenues and operating expenses related to video and Internet services are reported in the Competitive segment.

Revenues from Verizon accounted for approximately 10% of the Company’s total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2012 and 9% and 12% of the Company’s total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Revenue from Verizon was derived from RLEC and Competitive segments’ access products.

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Summarized financial information concerning the Company’s reportable segments is shown in the following table.

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations			Total
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2012
Operating revenues	$	157,720	$	49,151	$	—		$	206,871
Intersegment revenues (1)		967		4,862		(5,829	)		—
Depreciation and amortization		26,341		12,543		—			38,884
Operating income		25,257		15,939		—			41,196
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		57,718		31,171		—			88,889
Capital expenditures		52,582		7,299		—			59,881
Goodwill		100,297		—		—			100,297
Total assets	$	402,249	$	110,913	$	—		$	513,162

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC			Eliminations			Total
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2011
Operating revenues	$	154,397	$	53,017		$	—		$	207,414
Intersegment revenues (1)		644		4,632			(5,276	)		—
Depreciation and amortization		29,487		13,603			—			43,090
Operating income (loss)		29,955		(66,328	)		—			(36,373	)
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		62,098		34,842			—			96,940
Capital expenditures		45,720		15,816			—			61,536
Goodwill		100,297		—			—			100,297
Total assets	$	355,979	$	142,621		$	—		$	498,600

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations			Total
For the year ended December 31, 2010
Operating revenues	$	88,471	$	57,493	$	—		$	145,964
Intersegment revenues (1)		1,036		4,254		(5,290	)		—
Depreciation and amortization		17,263		14,102		—			31,365
Operating income		16,208		24,921		—			41,129
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		37,316		39,738		—			77,054
Capital expenditures	$	27,950	$	12,304	$	—		$	40,254

⁽¹⁾  Intersegment revenues consist primarily of telecommunications services such as local exchange services, inter-city and local transport voice and data services, and leasing of various network elements. Intersegment revenues are primarily recorded at tariff and prevailing market rates.

⁽²⁾  The Company evaluates performance based upon Adjusted EBITDA, defined by the Company as net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, other income or expenses, equity based compensation charges, acquisition related charges, amortization of actuarial losses on retirement plans, employee separation charges, restructuring related charges, gain or loss on settlements and gain or loss on interest rate derivatives.

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The following table provides a reconciliation of operating income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA by reportable segment, as defined by the Company, for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

(In thousands)	Competitive			RLEC			Total
For the year ended December 31, 2012
Operating income	$	25,257		$	15,939		$	41,196
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		26,439			12,569			39,008
Sub-total:		51,696			28,508			80,204
Amortization of actuarial losses		1,336			445			1,781
Equity based compensation		2,895			1,017			3,912
Employee separation charges (1)		1,759			587			2,346
Restructuring charges (2)		1,784			1,197			2,981
Gain on settlements, net (3)		(1,752	)		(583	)		(2,335	)
Adjusted EBITDA	$	57,718		$	31,171		$	88,889

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC			Total
For the year ended December 31, 2011
Operating income (loss)	$	29,955	$	(66,328	)	$	(36,373	)
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		29,579		13,627			43,206
Sub-total:		59,534		(52,701	)		6,833
Asset impairment charges		—		86,295			86,295
Equity based compensation		1,474		909			2,383
Business separation charges (4)		1,019		339			1,358
Acquisition related charges (5)		71		—			71
Adjusted EBITDA	$	62,098	$	34,842		$	96,940

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2010
Operating Income	$	16,208	$	24,921	$	41,129
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations		17,272		14,104		31,376
Sub-total:		33,480		39,025		72,505
Equity based compensation		816		713		1,529
Acquisition related charges (5)		3,020		—		3,020
Adjusted EBITDA	$	37,316	$	39,738	$	77,054

⁽¹⁾  Employee separation charges include employee separation benefits which were provided for in the separation agreements of two executive officers who left the Company in April and December 2012. These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

⁽²⁾  In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans. Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

⁽³⁾  The net pre-tax gain on settlements was recognized in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (Note 13).

⁽⁴⁾  Business Separation charges include audit, legal and other professional fees incurred during the period related to the Company’s separation from NTELOS Holdings Corp. into a separate publicly traded company (Note 1). These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the statement of operations.

⁽⁵⁾  Acquisition related charges include legal and other professional fees incurred during 2010 and 2011 related to the Company’s acquisition of the FiberNet business from One Communications Corp., which closed on December 1, 2010.

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Note 5. Long-Term Debt

As of December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company’s outstanding long-term debt consisted of the following:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Credit facility	$	311,022	$	324,500
Capital lease obligations		1,203		2,076
		312,225		326,576
Less: current portion of long-term debt		7,900		2,679
	$	304,325	$	323,897

Credit Facility

On September 8, 2011, Lumos Networks Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lumos Networks, entered into a $370 million post-Business Separation credit facility (the “Credit Facility”). Funding under the Credit Facility occurred upon the effective date of the Business Separation, which was October 31, 2011. The Credit Facility consists of a $60 million senior secured five year revolving credit facility (the “Revolver”), $3.5 million of which was outstanding as of December 31, 2012; a $110 million senior secured five year amortizing term loan (the “Term Loan A”); and a $200 million senior secured six year amortizing term loan (the “Term Loan B”). The proceeds of the Credit Facility were made available to Lumos Networks Operating Company on the effective date of the Business Separation and were used to fund a working capital cash reserve at Lumos Networks and to pay $315 million to NTELOS Inc. (i) to settle with cash the intercompany debt owed to NTELOS as of the Business Separation date ($177.1 million) and, with the balance, (ii) to fund a mandatory repayment on NTELOS’s credit facility resulting from the Business Separation. Pricing of the Lumos Networks Operating Company credit facility is LIBOR plus 3.25% for the Revolver and the Term Loan A and LIBOR plus 3.50% for the Term Loan B. The Credit Facility does not require a minimum LIBOR rate. The Credit Facility is secured by a first priority pledge of substantially all property and assets of Lumos Networks Operating Company and all material subsidiaries, as guarantors, excluding the RLECs.

The Credit Facility includes various restrictions and conditions, including covenants relating to leverage and interest coverage ratio requirements. At December 31, 2012, Lumos Networks’ leverage ratio (as defined under the credit agreement) was 3.50:1.00 and its interest coverage ratio was 8.00:1.00. The Credit Facility requires that the leverage ratio not exceed 4.00:1.00 through September 30, 2014 (and 3.75:1.00 thereafter) and the interest coverage ratio not be less than 3.25:1:00. The Credit Facility also sets a maximum distributable amount that limits restricted payments, including the payment of dividends. The initial distributable amount was set at $5 million at the date of funding and, on January 1, 2012, the distributable amount was increased by $12 million. For each year thereafter the amount will be increased by the greater of $12 million or 75% of free cash flow (as defined under the credit agreement). Based on the excess cash flow calculation for the year ended December 31, 2012, the distributable amount was increased by $12 million on January 1, 2013. The distributable amount is reduced by any restricted payments including dividend payments. The distributable amount as of December 31, 2012 was $5.1 million.

Under the terms of the Credit Facility, the Company was required to enter into an interest rate hedge for three years on 50% of the term loans outstanding early in the first quarter of 2012. In February 2012, the Company entered into a 3% interest rate cap through December 31, 2012 and a delayed interest rate swap agreement from December 31, 2012 through December 31, 2015 whereby the Company swaps three-month LIBOR with a fixed rate of approximately 0.8%. The Company recognized a $1.9 million loss on derivative instruments as a result of changes in the fair value of the interest rate swap during the year ended December 31, 2012.

In connection with entering into the Credit Facility, the Company has deferred $4.9 million in debt issuance costs which are being amortized to interest expense over the life of the debt using the effective interest method. Amortization of these costs for the year ended December 31, 2012 was $0.8 million.

The Company receives patronage credits from CoBank and certain other of the Farm Credit System lending institutions (collectively referred to as “patronage banks”) which are not reflected in the interest rates above. The patronage banks hold a portion of the credit facility and are cooperative banks that are required to distribute their profits to their members. Patronage credits are calculated based on the patronage banks’ ownership percentage of the credit facility and are received by the Company as either a cash distribution or as equity in the patronage banks. The current patronage credit percentages are 65% in cash and 35% in equity. These credits are recorded in the consolidated statement of operations as an offset to interest expense. The Patronage credits for the year ended December 31, 2012 were $1.0 million.

The aggregate maturities of the Term Loan A and Term Loan B are $7.5 million per year in 2013 and 2014, $13.0 million in 2015, $90.0 million in 2016, $189.5 million in 2017. The revolver is payable in full in 2016.

The Company’s blended average interest rate on its long-term debt for the year ended December 31, 2012 was 3.79%.

Capital lease obligations

In addition to the long-term debt discussed above, the Company has entered into capital leases on vehicles with original lease terms of four to five years. In addition, the Company had $0.6 million of capital leases on telephony equipment assumed in a prior acquisition, which were paid in full in the fourth quarter of 2012 in connection with a sale of the related assets. At December 31, 2012, the carrying value and accumulated depreciation of these assets was $2.5 million and $1.4 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2012, the total net present value of the Company’s future minimum lease payments was $1.2 million. As of December 31, 2012, the principal portion of these capital lease obligations was due as follows: $0.4 million in 2013, $0.3 million in 2014, $0.3 million in 2015, $0.2 million in 2016 and less than $0.1 million thereafter.

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Note 6. Supplementary Disclosures of Cash Flow Information

The following information is presented as supplementary disclosures for the consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cash payments for:
Interest (net of amounts capitalized)	$	11,972	$	2,261	$	29
Income taxes		1,892		87		263
Supplemental investing and financing activities:
Additions to property and equipment included in accounts payable and other accrued liabilities		6,621		2,900		2,492
Borrowings under capital leases		380		990		498
Dividends paid through increase in borrowings from NTELOS Inc.		—		14,145		29,240
Dividend declared not paid	$	3,013	$	2,980	$	—

The amount of interest capitalized was $0.1 million, less than $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

The net assets acquired by Lumos Networks in the Business Separation were effectively settled with the $315 million cash payment from Lumos Networks to NTELOS on October 31, 2011 (Note 2). Of this payment, $177.1 million represented the payoff of intercompany debt owed to NTELOS and the transfer of assets and liabilities between NTELOS and the subsidiaries of NTELOS that now comprise Lumos Networks.

Note 7. Financial Instruments

The Company is exposed to market risks with respect to certain of the financial instruments that it holds. Cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are reflected in the consolidated financial statements at cost which approximates fair value because of the short-term maturity of these instruments. The fair value of the senior credit facility was estimated based on an analysis of the forward-looking interest rates as of December 31, 2012, compared to the forward looking interest rates at inception, assuming no change in the credit profile of the Company or market demand for similar instruments. The Company’s valuation technique for this instrument is considered to be a level three fair value measurement within the fair value hierarchy described in FASB ASC 820. The fair values of the derivative instruments (Note 5) were derived based on quoted trading prices obtained from the administrative agents as of December 31, 2012. The Company’s valuation technique for these instruments is considered to be level two fair value measurements within the fair value hierarchy described in FASB ASC 820. The fair values of other financial instruments, if applicable, are based on quoted market prices or discounted cash flows based on current market conditions.

The following table indicates the difference between face amount, carrying amount and fair value of the Company’s financial instruments at December 31, 2012 and 2011.

(In thousands)	Face Amount			Carrying Amount		Fair Value
December 31, 2012
Financial assets:
Cash	$	2		$	2	$	2
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value		N/A			462		N/A
Financial liabilities:
Senior credit facility		311,022			311,022		320,739
Capital lease obligations		1,203			1,203		1,203
Derivatives related to debt:
Interest rate swap liability		153,750	*		1,871		1,871
December 31, 2011
Financial assets:
Cash	$	10,547		$	10,547	$	10,547
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value		N/A			128		N/A
Financial liabilities:
Senior credit facility		324,500			324,500		324,500
Capital lease obligations	$	2,076		$	2,076	$	2,076

* notional amount

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Of the long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value in the table above, $0.4 million as of December 31, 2012 represents the Company’s investment in CoBank. This investment is primarily related to patronage distributions of restricted equity and is a required investment related to the portion of the credit facility loan held by CoBank. This investment is carried under the cost method.

Note 8. Stockholders’ Equity

On February 27, 2013, the Company’s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, which is to be paid on April 11, 2013 to stockholders of record on March 13, 2013.

Prior to the Business Separation, the Company did not have any common stock outstanding. As such, basic loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2011 is computed on a pro forma basis by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the two month post-Business Separation period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011, as if such shares had been outstanding for the entire year. Diluted loss per share is calculated in a similar manner, but includes the dilutive effect of actual stock options and restricted shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011. Since these securities are anti-dilutive, they are excluded from the calculation of loss per share at December 31, 2011.

The computations of basic and diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2012 and the unaudited computation of pro forma basic and diluted loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2011 are as follows:

(In thousands)	2012			Pro Forma 2011 (Unaudited)
Numerator:
Income (loss) applicable to common shares for earnings-per-share computation	$	16,340		$	(43,930	)
Denominator:
Total shares outstanding		21,498			21,170
Less: unvested shares		(342	)		(352	)
Less: effect of calculating weighted average shares		(198	)		(3	)
Denominator for basic earnings per common share-weighted average shares outstanding		20,958			20,815
Plus: weighted average unvested shares		434			—
Plus: common stock equivalents of stock options outstanding		15			—
Denominator for diluted earnings per common share-weighted average shares outstanding		21,407			20,815

For the year ended December 31, 2012, the denominator for diluted earnings per common share excludes 1,546,900 shares related to stock options which would be antidilutive for the period. For the year ended December 31, 2011, the denominator for diluted loss per common share is equal to the denominator for basic loss per common share because the addition of unvested shares or other common stock equivalents would be anti-dilutive (416,417 at December 31, 2011).

Note 9. Stock Plans

The Company has an Equity and Cash Incentive Plan administered by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s board of directors, which permits the grant of long-term incentives to employees and non-employee directors, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, incentive awards, other stock-based awards and dividend equivalents. The maximum number of shares of common stock available for awards under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan is 4,000,000. As of December 31, 2012, 1,475,441 securities remained available for issuance under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan. Upon the exercise of stock options or upon the grant of restricted stock under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan, new common shares are issued.

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The Company issued 863,004 stock options and 313,703 shares of restricted stock under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan during the year ended December 31, 2012. The options issued under the Employee Equity and Cash Incentive Plan generally vest one-fourth annually beginning one year after the grant date for employees and generally cliff vest on the first anniversary of the grant date for non-employee directors. The restricted shares generally cliff vest on the third anniversary of the grant date for employees and generally cliff vest on the first anniversary of the grant date for non-employee directors. Dividend rights applicable to restricted stock are equivalent to the Company’s common stock.

Stock options must be granted under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan at not less than 100% of fair value on the date of grant and have a maximum life of ten years from the date of grant. Options and other awards under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan may be exercised in compliance with such requirements as determined by a committee of the board of directors. All options outstanding were issued at a strike price equal to or greater than the fair value on the date of grant.

The fair value of each option award is estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and the assumptions noted in the table below. The risk-free rate is based on the zero-coupon U.S. Treasury rate in effect at the time of grant, with a term equal to the expected life of the options. The Company uses peer group and other publicly available market data to estimate volatility assumptions as the Company was not publicly traded until November 2011 and does not have an adequate trading history to estimate its actual volatility. The expected option life represents the period of time that the options granted are expected to be outstanding. The expected dividend yield is estimated based on the Company’s expected dividend yields at the date of the grant.

The weighted-average grant date fair value per share of stock options granted during the year ended December 31, 2012 was $2.34. The weighted-average grant date fair value per share of stock options granted subsequent to the Business Separation through December 31, 2011 was $3.95. The following weighted-average assumptions were used in estimating the grant date fair value of these awards:

	Year Ended December 31,  2012		November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011
Risk-free interest rate		1.40%		1.55%
Expected volatility		43.42%		34.70%
Expected dividend yield		5.77%		3.10%
Expected term		7 years		7 years

The summary of the activity and status of the Company’s stock options for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, is as follows:

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share		Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term		Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Stock options outstanding at January 1, 2011		—		$	—
Converted options issued by the Company on the October 31, 2011 Business Separation date (1)		1,464			14.58
Granted subsequent to the Business Separation		21			15.48
Forfeited subsequent to the Business Separation		(137	)		14.67
Outstanding at December 31, 2011		1,348		$	14.58		7.8 years	$	1,022
Granted during the period		863			9.79
Exercised during the period		—			—
Forfeited during the period		(287	)		13.95
Expired during the period		(210	)		14.78
Outstanding at December 31, 2012		1,714		$	12.29		7.6 years	$	1,002
Exercisable at December 31, 2012		725		$	13.97		5.8 years	$	230
Total outstanding, vested and expected to vest at December 31, 2012		1,576		$	12.53			$	849

⁽¹⁾  Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS stock options for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 1,463,819 Company stock options based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation. The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation. These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

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No options were exercised during the year ended December 31, 2012 or during the period subsequent to the Business Separation through December 31, 2011. The total fair value of options that vested during the year ended December 31, 2012 was $1.1 million. The total fair value of options that vested subsequent to the Business Separation through December 31, 2011 was $0.1 million. As of December 31, 2012, there was $1.6 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.6 years.

The summary of the activity and status of the Company’s restricted stock for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, is as follows:

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share
Restricted stock outstanding at January 1, 2011		—		$	—
Converted restricted stock issued by the Company on the October 31, 2011 Business Separation date (1)		410			14.46
Granted subsequent to the Business Separation		7			15.20
Forfeited subsequent to the Business Separation		(65	)		14.54
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2011		352		$	14.46
Granted during the period		313			10.16
Vested during the period		(215	)		12.91
Forfeited during the period		(108	)		13.92
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2012		342		$	11.67

⁽¹⁾  Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS restricted stock awards for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 409,690 Company restricted stock awards based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation. The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation. These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

As of December 31, 2012, there was $2.3 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested restricted stock awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.3 years. The fair value of the restricted stock is equal to the market value of common stock on the date of grant.

In addition to the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan discussed above, the Company has an employee stock purchase plan which commenced in November 2011 with 100,000 shares available. New common shares will be issued for purchases under this plan. Shares are priced at 85% of the closing price on the last trading day of the month and settle on the second business day of the following month. During the year ended December 31, 2012, 12,957 shares were issued under the employee stock purchase plan. During the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, 719 shares were issued under the employee stock purchase plan. Compensation expense associated with the employee stock purchase plan was less than $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2012. Compensation expense associated with the employee stock purchase plan was not material in the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.

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Note 10. Income Taxes

The components of income tax expense (benefit) are as follows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

(In thousands)	2012		2011			2010
Current tax expense:
Federal	$	—	$	—		$	8,515
State		496		3,727			2,499
Total current tax expense		496		3,727			11,014
Deferred tax expense (benefit):
Federal		8,982		(3,657	)		3,275
State		1,532		(4,453	)		188
Total deferred tax expense (benefit)		10,514		(8,110	)		3,463
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,010	$	(4,383	)	$	14,477

Total income tax expense was different than an amount computed by applying the graduated statutory federal income tax rates to income before taxes. The reasons for the differences are as follows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

(In thousands)	2012			2011			2010
Computed tax expense (benefit) at statutory federal rate of 35%	$	9,610		$	(16,891	)	$	12,397
Nondeductible goodwill impairment charge		—			11,703			—
Nondeductible compensation		91			637			378
Noncontrolling interests		(37	)		18			(42	)
State income taxes (benefits), net of federal income tax benefit (expense)		1,318			(472	)		1,746
Other		28			622			(2	)
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,010		$	(4,383	)	$	14,477

During 2012, the Company recognized a tax benefit of approximately $0.4 million in additional paid-in capital associated with the excess tax benefit realized by the Company related to stock compensation plans. The Company recognized a tax benefit of $2.7 million in accumulated other comprehensive income associated with the adjustments to various employee benefit plan liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2012 in accordance with FASB ASC 715. The amount recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income was $1.8 million for the post Business Separation period in 2011. Additionally, on the date of the Business Separation, in connection with the transfer of these underlying employee benefit plans, $9.0 million of the related NTELOS deferred tax benefit associated with the unrealized actuarial losses from these plans was transferred to the Company.

Net deferred income tax assets and liabilities consist of the following components as of December 31, 2012 and 2011:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Deferred income tax assets:
Retirement benefits other than pension	$	5,053	$	5,349
Pension and related plans		6,228		9,022
Net operating loss		4,346		5,020
Debt issuance and discount		—		—
Accrued expenses		4,146		2,623
Other		1,379		2,523
		21,152		24,537
Deferred income tax liabilities:
Property and equipment		67,493		57,098
Intangibles		9,615		8,643
		77,108		65,741
Net deferred income tax liability	$	55,956	$	41,204

The Company has prior year unused net operating losses (“NOLs”) totaling $10.9 million as of December 31, 2012. The NOLs include $3.9 million that was assigned to the Company as a result of the Business Separation and are subject to an adjusted annual maximum limit due to the application of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Company’s NOLs, if not utilized to reduce taxable income in future periods, will expire in varying amounts from 2023 through 2031. The Company believes that it is more likely than not that the results of future operations will generate sufficient taxable income to realize the deferred tax assets.

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The Company recognizes interest related to unrecognized income tax benefits (“UTBs”) in interest expense and penalties on UTBs in income tax expense. A reconciliation of the change in the UTB balance for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2010 is as follows:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Balance at beginning of year	$	484	$	500
Additions for tax positions related to the current year		82		—
Increases (reductions) for tax positions related to prior years		43		(16	)
	$	609	$	484

While the Company believes it has adequately provided for all tax positions, amounts asserted by taxing authorities could be greater than its accrued position. Accordingly, additional provisions could be recorded in the future as revised estimates are made or the underlying matters are settled or otherwise resolved. In general, the tax years that remain open and subject to federal and state audit examinations are 2009-2011 and 2008-2011, respectively.

Note 11. Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Benefits

The Company sponsors a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan (“Pension Plan”), as well as non-qualified pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans (“OPEBs”) for its eligible employees. The Company’s total periodic benefit cost recognized for all qualified and nonqualified pension and OPEBs plans was $2.2 million, $2.8 million and $2.4 million in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. A portion of the costs for 2011 and 2010 were allocated to the Company by NTELOS, when its employees were participating in similar plans sponsored by NTELOS. Concurrent with the Business Separation, the Company established its own qualified and nonqualified pension plans and OPEBs for its employees. The Company initially measured the plans as of October 31, 2011 based on actual plan assets transferred to the Company effective upon the Business Separation and the actual plan participants and their respective accrued benefits. In addition to the transfer of the assets and obligations from these plans, the related unrealized actuarial losses from these plans as determined on the October 31, 2011 measurement date was transferred from NTELOS.

Effective December 31, 2012, the Company froze the accumulation of benefits under the Pension Plan and the supplemental executive retirement plan in conjunction with a cost reduction plan that was announced in mid-December 2012. As such, no further benefits will be accrued by plan participants for services rendered after this date under either of these plans.

The following tables provide a reconciliation of the changes in the qualified plans’ benefit obligations and fair value of assets and a statement of the funded status as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the classification of amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan						Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
(In thousands)	Year Ended December  31, 2012			November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011			Year Ended December  31, 2012			November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Change in benefit obligations:
Benefit obligations, beginning of period	$	64,061		$	60,181		$	12,511		$	12,157
Service cost		2,043			312			78			12
Interest cost		2,698			451			525			91
Actuarial loss		5,942			3,528			201			318
Benefits paid, net		(2,475	)		(411	)		(441	)		(67	)
Curtailment gain		(8,519	)		—			—			—
Transfer		761			—			—			—
Benefit obligations, end of period		64,511			64,061			12,874			12,511
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of period		45,109			45,531			—			—
Actual return on plan assets		6,610			(11	)		—			—
Employer contributions		2,000			—			441			67
Benefits paid		(2,492	)		(411	)		(441	)		(67	)
Transfer		448			—			—			—
Fair value of plan assets, end of period		51,675			45,109			—			—
Funded status:
Total liability, end of period	$	12,836		$	18,952		$	12,874		$	12,511

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The accumulated benefit obligation for the defined benefit pension plan at December 31, 2012 and 2011 was $64.5 million and $56.5 million, respectively. The accumulated benefit obligation represents the present value of pension benefits based on service and salary earned to date. The benefit obligation indicated in the table above is the projected benefit obligation which represents the present value of pension benefits taking into account projected future service and salary increases. The projected benefit obligation is equal to the accumulated benefit obligation as of December 31, 2012 due to the Company’s freezing of benefits under the Plan effective as of this same date.

The Company has classified the projected amount to be paid in 2013 of $0.9 million related to the other postretirement benefit plans and the nonqualified pension plans (discussed below) in current liabilities under the caption “other accrued liabilities” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2012.

The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for the plans for the year ended December 31, 2012 and the period November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan						Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
(In thousands)	Year Ended December 31, 2012			November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011			Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Components of net periodic benefit cost:
Service cost	$	2,043		$	312		$	78	$	12
Interest cost		2,698			451			525		91
Expected return on plan assets		(3,517	)		(571	)		—		—
Amortization of loss		1,481			197			—		—
Net periodic benefit cost	$	2,705		$	389		$	603	$	103

Prior service costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the average remaining service period of active participants. Gains and losses in excess of 10% of the greater of the benefit obligation and the market-related value of assets are amortized over the average remaining service period of active participants.

Unrecognized actuarial losses for the year ended December 31, 2012 were $2.9 million and $0.2 million for the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans, respectively. A curtailment gain of $8.5 million was recognized as of December 31, 2012 in connection with the Company’s freezing of the defined benefit pension plan. The curtailment gain was recorded as an offset to unrecognized actuarial losses in accumulated other comprehensive income. The total amount of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss at December 31, 2012 related to the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans, respectively, was $10.3 million, net of a $6.5 million deferred tax asset, and $0.9 million, net of a $0.6 million deferred tax asset.

Unrecognized actuarial losses for the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 were $4.1 million and $0.3 million for the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans, respectively. The total amount of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss at December 31, 2011 related to these respective plans was $14.4 million, net of a $9.2 million deferred tax asset, and $0.8 million, net of a $0.5 million deferred tax asset.

The assumptions used in the measurements of the Company’s benefit obligations at December 31, 2012 and 2011 are shown in the following table:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan						Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
	December 31, 2012			December 31, 2011			December 31, 2012			December 31, 2011
Discount rate		3.85	%		4.30	%		3.85	%		4.30	%
Rate of compensation increase		3.00	%		3.00	%		N/A			N/A

The assumptions used in the measurements of the Company’s net cost for the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 and for the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 are:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan						Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
	Year Ended December 31, 2012			November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011			Year Ended December 31, 2012			November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Discount rate		4.30	%		4.60	%		4.30	%		4.60	%
Expected return on plan assets		7.75	%		7.75	%		N/A			N/A
Rate of compensation increase		3.00	%		3.00	%		N/A			N/A

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The Company reviews the assumptions noted in the above table annually or more frequently to reflect anticipated future changes in the underlying economic factors used to determine these assumptions. The discount rates assumed reflect the rate at which the Company could invest in high quality corporate bonds in order to settle future obligations. In doing so, the Company utilizes a Citigroup Pension Discount Curve applied against the Company’s estimated defined benefit payments to derive a blended rate. The Citigroup Pension Discount Curve is derived from over 350 Aa corporate bonds. The Company also compares this to a Moody’s ten year Aa bond index for reasonableness.

For measurement purposes, a 7.0% annual rate of increase in the per capita cost of covered health care benefits was assumed for 2013 for the obligation as of December 31, 2012. The rate was assumed to decrease one-half percent per year to a rate of 5.0% for 2017 and remain at that level thereafter.

Assumed health care cost trend rates have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the health care plans. The effect of a 1% change on the medical trend rate per future year, while holding all other assumptions constant, to the service and interest cost components of net periodic postretirement health care benefit costs and accumulated postretirement benefit obligation would be a $0.1 million increase and a $1.9 million increase, respectively, for a 1% increase in medical trend rate and a $0.1 million decrease and a $1.6 million decrease, respectively, for a 1% decrease in medical trend rate.

In developing the expected long-term rate of return assumption for the assets of the Defined Benefit Pension Plan, the Company evaluated input from its third party pension plan asset managers, including their review of asset class return expectations and long-term inflation assumptions. The Company also considered the related historical ten-year average asset return at December 31, 2012 as well as considering input from the Company’s third party pension plan asset managers.

The weighted average actual asset allocations by asset category and the fair value by asset category as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 were as follows:

(Dollars in thousands)	December 31, 2012					December 31, 2011
Asset Category	Actual Allocation			Fair Value		Actual Allocation			Fair Value
Large Cap Value		32	%	$	16,395		34	%	$	15,088
Large Cap Blend		16	%		8,169		17	%		7,536
Mid Cap Blend		6	%		3,149		6	%		2,846
Small Cap Blend		4	%		2,134		4	%		1,896
Foreign Stock - Large Cap		7	%		3,696		7	%		3,040
Bond		32	%		16,405		29	%		13,281
Cash and cash equivalents		3	%		1,727		3	%		1,422
Total		100	%	$	51,675		100	%	$	45,109

The actual and target allocation for plan assets is broadly defined and measured as follows:

	December 31, 2012						December 31, 2011
Asset Category	Actual Allocation			Target Allocation			Actual Allocation
Equity securities		65	%		65	%		67	%
Bond securities and cash equivalents		35	%		35	%		33	%
Total		100	%		100	%		100	%

It is the Company’s policy to invest pension plan assets in a diversified portfolio consisting of an array of asset classes. The investment risk of the assets is limited by appropriate diversification both within and between asset classes. The assets are primarily invested in investment funds that invest in a broad mix of publicly traded equities, bonds and cash equivalents (and fair value is based on quoted market prices (“level 1” input)). The allocation between equity and bonds is reset quarterly to the target allocations. Updates to the allocation are considered in the normal course and changes may be made when appropriate. The bond holdings consist of three bond funds split relatively evenly between these funds at December 31, 2012. At December 31, 2012, the Company believes that there are no material concentrations of risk within the portfolio of plan assets.

The assumed long term return noted above is the target long term return. Overall return, risk adjusted return, and management fees are assessed against a peer group and benchmark indices. Reporting on asset performance is provided quarterly and review meetings are held semi-annually. In addition to normal rebalancing to maintain an adequate cash reserve, projected cash flow needs of the plan are reviewed at least annually to ensure liquidity is properly managed.

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The Company contributed $2.0 million to the pension plan in 2012. The Company does not expect to contribute to the pension plan in 2013. The Company expects the net periodic benefit cost for the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans in 2013 to be income of $0.6 million (which includes $0.9 million of loss in other comprehensive income expected to be recognized as a component of net periodic benefit cost) and $0.6 million, respectively.

The following estimated future pension benefit payments and other postretirement benefit plan payments which reflect expected future service, as appropriate, are expected to be paid in the years indicated:

(In thousands)
Year	Defined Benefit Pension Plan		Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
2013	$	2,665	$	553
2014		2,696		544
2015		2,785		533
2016		2,937		555
2017		3,009		583
2018-2022	$	15,855	$	3,159

Other Benefit Plans

The Company has a supplemental executive retirement plan that was formed through transfer of benefit obligations of $2.5 million related to the Company’s employees or former employees from NTELOS in connection with the Business Separation. In addition, the transfer of the benefit obligation triggered the transfer of a gross unrealized loss of $1.0 million. Both the projected benefit obligation and the accumulated benefit obligation associated with this plan at December 31, 2012 were $4.8 million. Effective December 31, 2012, the Company decided to freeze the supplemental executive retirement plan. As such, no further benefits will be accrued by plan participants for services rendered after this date. In connection with this, a curtailment gain of $0.2 million was recorded at December 31, 2012 as an offset to unrecognized actuarial losses in accumulated other comprehensive income.

The projected benefit obligation and the accumulated benefit obligation associated with this plan at December 31, 2011 were $4.3 million and $2.5 million, respectively. The Company recognized $0.3 million and $0.2 million of expense from previously unrecognized loss related to the supplemental executive retirement plan during the year ended December 31, 2012 and the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, respectively. The total balance of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income at December 31, 2012 and 2011 related to this plan was $1.5 million, net of a $1.0 million deferred tax asset, and $1.6 million, net of a $1.0 million deferred tax asset, respectively.

The estimated future benefit payments are expected to be $0.3 million annually for each of the years 2013 through 2017 and $1.3 million in aggregate for the years 2018 through 2022.

The Company also has certain other nonqualified defined benefit pension plans assumed from a prior merger. The projected benefit obligation related to these plans at December 31, 2012 and 2011 was $0.5 million and $0.9 million, respectively, with expected future payments of $0.2 million in 2013 and $0.1 million or less thereafter. These nonqualified plans have no plan assets and are also closed to new participants.

The Company also sponsors a defined contribution 401(k) plan. The Company’s matching contributions to this plan were $0.8 million, $0.7 million and $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The Company funds its 401(k) matching contributions in shares of the Company’s common stock.

Note 12. Restructuring Charges

In December 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan (the “Plan”), which involved closing or consolidating certain of its facilities, reducing its workforce and freezing benefits under both its defined benefit pension plan and its executive supplemental retirement plan.

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The Company recognized a total of $3.0 million in restructuring costs related to these initiatives, including severance and separation costs of $2.4 million and lease termination costs of $0.6 million. The Plan was substantially completed as of December 31, 2012. Accordingly, the Company does not expect to incur additional costs associated with the plan in future periods. The following table provides a break-down of these costs by business segment for the year ended December 31, 2012:

	2012
(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
Employee severance and termination benefits	$	1,426	$	961	$	2,387
Lease termination costs		358		236		594
Total restructuring charges	$	1,784	$	1,197	$	2,981

A liability for restructuring charges in the amount of $2.7 million is included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2012, related to employee termination costs and lease termination costs accrued but not yet paid. Below is a summary of the restructuring liability balance as of December 31, 2012:

(In thousands)	Employee Severance and Termination Benefits		Lease Termination Costs			Total
Beginning balance at December 31, 2011	$	—	$	—		$	—
Additions		2,387		594			2,981
Payments		—		(290	)		(290	)
Ending balance at December 31, 2012	$	2,387	$	304		$	2,691

Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies

Operating Leases

Rental expense for all operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $3.5 million, $3.8 million and $2.2 million, respectively. The total amount committed under these lease agreements at December 31, 2012 is: $1.0 million in 2013, $0.8 million in 2014, $0.7 million in 2015, $0.6 million in 2016, $0.6 million in 2017 and $1.7 million for the years thereafter.

Other Commitments and Contingencies

The Company periodically makes claims or receives disputes and is involved in legal actions related to billings to other carriers for access to the Company’s network. The Company does not recognize revenue related to such matters until collection of the claims is reasonably assured. In addition to this, the Company periodically disputes access charges that are assessed by other companies with which the Company interconnects and is involved in other disputes and legal and tax proceedings and filings arising from normal business activities.

In September 2012, the Company settled an outstanding lawsuit related to access billings for a one-time payment of $3.0 million. The Company also settled all of its outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition that closed in December 2010. In connection with this, the Company recognized a $5.3 million pre-tax gain resulting from the transfer of a $3.0 million liability back to the seller and the seller agreeing to pay the Company $2.3 million. These settlements, which total $2.3 million in the aggregate, are recorded as “gain on settlements, net” on the consolidated statements of operations.

In addition to the lawsuit related to the access billings discussed above, the Company settled other access dispute billings to another carrier for $5.6 million, of which $4.7 million was reserved in 2011. The total impact from these settlements was a $1.5 million charge to revenue and a $1.0 million charge to operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2012.

In February 2013, the Company received notice of a dispute from a carrier regarding billings for access services. Although the outcome of the dispute is difficult to determine at this early stage, the Company intends to vigorously contest and defend its position and believes that the possibility of an unfavorable outcome is remote. As such, no amounts have been recorded in the consolidated financial statements related to this dispute.

In October 2012, the Company was named as the defendant in a patent infringement case alleging that the Company’s communications networks, systems and components infringe three patents held by GlobeTecTrust LLC, the plaintiff. The amount of the claim has not been determined and the Company does not have sufficient information to assess the risk, if any, of an unfavorable outcome.

In addition to the matters described above, the Company is involved in routine litigation and disputes in the ordinary course of its business. While the results of litigation and disputes are inherently unpredictable, management does not expect that the ultimate costs to resolve these matters will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows, and believes that adequate provision for any probable and estimable losses has been made in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

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The Company has other purchase commitments relating to capital expenditures totaling $6.6 million as of December 31, 2012, which are expected to be satisfied during 2013.

In connection with the Business Separation, the Company entered into a series of agreements with NTELOS which are intended to govern the relationship between the Company and NTELOS going forward (Note 2), and within such agreements, the companies are required to indemnify each other regarding certain matters.

Specifically, under the tax matters agreement entered into between NTELOS and the Company, the Company is generally required to indemnify NTELOS against any tax resulting from the Distribution to the extent that such tax resulted from any of the following events (among others): (1) an acquisition of all or a portion of our stock or assets, whether by merger or otherwise, (2) any negotiations, understandings, agreements or arrangements with respect to transactions or events that cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a 50% or greater interest in Lumos Networks, (3) certain other actions or failures to act by the Company, or (4) any breach by the Company of certain of its representations or undertakings. The Company’s indemnification obligations to NTELOS and its subsidiaries, officers and directors are not limited by any maximum amount.

Note 14. Related Party Transactions

Prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, NTELOS Inc. provided a variety of administrative services to Lumos Networks. Costs of these services were allocated or charged to the Company based on either the actual costs incurred or NTELOS Inc.’s estimate of expenses relative to the services provided to other subsidiaries of NTELOS Inc. The Company believes that these allocations were made on a reasonable basis, and that receiving these services from NTELOS Inc. created cost efficiencies. Lumos Networks management believes that all historical costs of operations have been reflected in the consolidated statements of operations for each period presented, but these costs do not reflect the amount of actual costs the Company would have incurred had it been an independent, publicly traded company prior to October 31, 2011. These services and transactions included the following:

• Cash management and other treasury services;

• Administrative services such as legal, regulatory, tax, employee benefit administration, internal audit, purchasing, accounting, information technology and human resources;

• Network monitoring;

• Executive oversight;

• Equity-based compensation plan administration; and

• Insurance coverage.

The amount of interest expense charged to the Company from NTELOS for borrowings accumulated through shared banking and treasury services for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 and for the year ended December 31, 2010 was $9.5 million and $4.9 million, which is included in interest expense on the consolidated statements of operations for those periods.

Total general and administrative expenses allocated to the Company were $7.3 million and $8.0 million included in its consolidated statements of operations for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 and for the year ended December 31, 2010, respectively, inclusive of certain corporate expenses which were not previously allocated to the segments (Note 2). Additionally, $2.8 million of acquisition related costs were allocated to the Company in 2010.

Total equity-based compensation expense related to all of the share-based awards granted to employees of Lumos Networks and allocated from NTELOS Inc. and NTELOS Inc.’s 401(k) matching contributions for employees of Lumos Networks totaled $2.4 million and $1.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.

Conclusion Regarding the Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f)) that occurred during the three months ended December 31, 2012 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012 using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) in Internal Control – Integrated Framework. Our management has concluded that our assessment provides reasonable assurance that, as of December 31, 2012, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.

Our independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP, has issued an attestation report on our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, which appears in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 9B. Other Information.

None.

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 1, 2013 to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A.

We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics pursuant to section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A copy of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is publicly available on our Company website at http://ir.lumosnetworks.com/govdocs.aspx?iid=4293608. The information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 11. Executive Compensation.

The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

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Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans

The following table sets forth information as of December 31, 2012 concerning the shares of common stock which are authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans.

Plan Category	Number of Securities to be Issued on Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights (a)		Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights (b)		Number of Securities Remaining Available for Issuance Under  Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Reflected in Column (a)) (b)
Equity Compensation Plans Approved by Stockholders
2011 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan		1,714,216	$	12.29		1,475,441
Employee Stock Purchase Plan		—		—		86,324
Equity Compensation Plans Not Approved by Stockholders		—		—		—
Total		1,714,216	$	12.29		1,561,765

All other information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

The information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference from the registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.

(a) The following documents are filed as a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:

(1) Consolidated Financial Statements

The consolidated financial statements required to be filed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K are listed in Item 8 hereof.

(2) Financial Statement Schedules

The following financial statement schedule is filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:

Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts for each year of the three-year period ended December 31, 2012.

Schedules other than the one listed above are omitted either because they are not required or they are inapplicable.

(3) Exhibits

The exhibits on the accompanying Exhibits Index below are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.	Description
2.1 (1)	Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, by and between NTELOS Holdings Corp. and Lumos Networks Corp.
3.1 (1)	Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Lumos Networks Corp.
3.2 (1)	Amended and Restated Bylaws of Lumos Networks Corp.
4.1 (2)	Form of Common Stock Certificate of Lumos Networks Corp.
4.2 (3)	Shareholders Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, by and between Lumos Networks Corp. and the shareholders listed on the signature pages thereto
10.1 (3)	Transition Services Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, by and between NTELOS Holdings Corp. and Lumos Networks Operating Company
10.2 (1)	Employee Matters Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, by and between NTELOS Holdings Corp. and Lumos Networks Operating Company
10.3 (1)	Tax Matters Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, by and between NTELOS Holdings Corp. and Lumos Networks Operating Company
10.4 (1)	Trademark and Domain Name Assignment and License Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, by and among NTELOS Holdings Corp. and all of its controlled affiliates and Lumos Networks Corp. and other parties set forth in the agreement
10.5 (3)	Software and Proprietary Information Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2011, between NTELOS Holdings Corp. and Lumos Networks Corp.
10.6 (1)	Lumos Networks Corp. 2011 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan
10.7 (1)	Lumos Networks Corp. 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10.8 (3)	Credit Agreement, dated as of September 8, 2011, among Lumos Networks Operating Company, certain subsidiaries of the Borrower (as defined in the Credit Agreement) party thereto and the Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement) party thereto
10.9 (4)	Employment Agreement, dated September 19, 2011, between Harold L. Covert and Lumos Networks Operating Company and Lumos Networks Corp.
10.10 (5)	Agreement with Michael B. Moneymaker dated April 30, 2012
10.11 (6)	Employment Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2012, between Timothy G. Biltz and Lumos Networks Operating Company
10.12 (6)	Form of performance vesting stock option award agreement, dated as of April 26, 2012, between Timothy G. Biltz and Lumos Networks Corp.
10.13 (6)	Form of time vested stock option award agreement, dated as of April 26, 2012, between Timothy G. Biltz and Lumos Networks Corp.
10.14 (6)	Form of restricted stock award agreement, dated as of April 26, 2012, between Timothy G. Biltz and Lumos Networks Corp.
10.15 (6)	Employment Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2012, between David J. Keller and Lumos Networks Operating Company
10.16 (6)	Employment Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2012, between Mary McDermott and Lumos Networks Operating Company
10.17 (7)	Form of Stock Option Award
10.18 (7)	Form of Restricted Stock Award – Non Officer
10.19 (7)	Form of Restricted Stock Award – Officer
10.20 (7)	Stock Option Award for James A. Hyde
10.21 (7)	Restricted Stock Award for James A. Hyde
10.22 *	Employment Agreement, dated as of May 29, 2012, between Joseph E. McCourt and Lumos Networks Operating Company
21.1 *	Subsidiaries of Lumos Networks Corp.
23.1 *	Report and Consent of KPMG LLP
31.1 *	Certificate of Timothy G. Biltz, President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)
31.2 *	Certificate of Harold L. Covert, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)
32.1 *	Certificate of Timothy G. Biltz, President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C., Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2 *	Certificate of Harold L. Covert, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C., Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
101.INS *	XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH *	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
101.CAL *	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
101.DEF *	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB *	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
101.PRE *	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

* Filed herewith.

(1) Filed as an exhibit to Current Report on Form 8-K filed November 4, 2011.

(2) Filed as an exhibit to Amended Registration of Securities on Form 10-12B/A filed September 8, 2011.

(3) Filed as an exhibit to Amended Registration of Securities on Form 10-12B/A filed August 9, 2011.

(4) Filed as an exhibit to Amended Registration of Securities on Form 10-12B/A filed October 17, 2011.

(5) Filed as an exhibit to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed August 2, 2012.

(6) Filed as an exhibit to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed November 1, 2012.

(7) Filed as an exhibit to Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 23, 2012.

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Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

Lumos Networks Corp.

			Additions
(In thousands)	Balance  at Beginning of Year				Charged  to Other Accounts
Description			Charged to Expense				Deductions			Balance at End of Year
Year Ended December 31, 2012:
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	2,822	$	523	$	368	$	(1,891	)	$	1,822
Year Ended December 31, 2011:
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	2,117	$	316	$	821	$	(432	)	$	2,822
Year Ended December 31, 2010:
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	1,153	$	266	$	1,203	$	(505	)	$	2,117

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report on Annual Report on Form 10-K to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Lumos Networks Corp.
By:	/s/ Timothy G. Biltz
Name:	Timothy G. Biltz
Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Timothy G. Biltz	President and Chief Executive Officer, Director	March 8, 2013
Timothy G. Biltz	(principal executive officer)
/s/ Harold L. Covert Harold L. Covert	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer)	March 8, 2013
/s/ Steven G. Felsher	Director	March 8, 2013
Steven G. Felsher
/s/ Robert E. Guth	Director	March 8, 2013
Robert E. Guth
/s/ Michael Huber	Director	March 8, 2013
Michael Huber
/s/ James A. Hyde	Director	March 8, 2013
James A. Hyde
/s/ Julia B. North	Director	March 8, 2013
Julia B. North
/s/ Michael K. Robinson	Director	March 8, 2013
Michael K. Robinson
/s/ Jerry E. Vaughn	Director	March 8, 2013
Jerry E. Vaughn

EX-10.22

Exhibit 10.22

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of May 29, 2012 (the “Effective Date”) between Joseph E. McCourt, Jr. (the “Executive”) and Lumos Networks Operating Company, a Delaware corporation, Lumos Networks Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), and Lumos Payroll Corp., a Virginia corporation (collectively with Lumos Networks Operating Company and Holdings, the “Company”), recites and provides as follows:

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Holdings (the “Board”) expects that the Executive will make substantial contributions to the growth and prospects of the Company; and

WHEREAS, the Executive will serve the Company in reliance upon the undertakings of the Company contained herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual covenants herein, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by each of the parties, the Company and the Executive agree as follows:

1. Employment.

(a) Position. On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to employ the Executive as Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer throughout the Employment Term (as defined below). At the request of the Board and without additional compensation, the Executive shall also serve as an officer and/or director of any or all of the subsidiaries of the Company.

(b) Duties and Responsibilities. The Executive shall have such duties and responsibilities that are consistent with the Executive’s position as the Board determines and shall perform such duties and carry out such responsibilities to the best of the Executive’s ability for the purpose of advancing the business of the Company and its subsidiaries. Subject to the provisions of Section 1(c) below, during the Employment Term the Executive shall devote the Executive’s full business time, skill and attention to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, and, except as specifically approved by the Board, shall not engage in any other business activity or have any other business affiliation.

(c) Other Activities. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, as part of the Executive’s business efforts and duties on behalf of the Company, the Executive may participate fully in social, charitable and civic activities, and, if specifically approved by the Board, the Executive may serve on the boards of directors of other companies, provided that such activities do not unreasonably interfere with the performance of and do not involve a conflict of interest with the Executive’s duties or responsibilities hereunder.

2. Employment Term. The “Employment Term” hereunder shall commence on the Effective Date and continue in full force and effect until December 31, 2013 unless terminated

earlier pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Thereafter, the Employment Term will renew hereunder automatically for successive one-year periods unless either party gives written notice to the other not less than six (6) months prior to the end of Employment Term hereof (or any subsequent anniversary, as the case may be) that such party does not wish the Employment Term to be so extended, and under such circumstances, the Employment Term and this Agreement will terminate by its terms, and without liability to either party, on December 31, 2013 (or such subsequent anniversary, as the case may be). Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence of a “Change in Control” (as such term is defined in Section 4(e)(iii)), the Employment Term shall be automatically extended so that the Employment Term shall continue in full force and effect until the date which is twenty-four (24) months from the date of a Change in Control and thereafter will renew automatically as of such date and successive one-year periods thereafter, unless prior notice is given, as provided above.

3. Compensation. During the Employment Term, the Company will pay and/or otherwise provide the Executive with compensation and related benefits as follows:

(a) Base Salary. The Company agrees to pay the Executive, for services rendered hereunder, a base salary at the annual rate of $210,000 (the “Base Salary”). The Executive’s Base Salary will be reviewed annually throughout the Employment Term by the Compensation Committee of the Board. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company may reduce the Executive’s Base Salary by up to ten percent (10%) during the Employment Term, but only as part of a salary reduction program pursuant to which the Base Salaries of the Chief Executive Officer, all Executive Vice Presidents and all Senior Vice Presidents who have been designated as “executive officers” by the Board are reduced by the same percentage at the same time and for the same period of time. The Base Salary shall be payable in equal periodic installments, not less frequently than monthly, less any sums which may be required to be deducted or withheld under applicable provisions of law. The Base Salary for any partial year shall be prorated based upon the number of days elapsed in such year.

(b) Stock-Based Incentive Compensation.

(i) Eligibility for Stock-Based Incentive Compensation. At the Board’s discretion, the Executive shall be eligible to participate in the Company’s stock-based incentive compensation plan pursuant to its terms (“Stock-Based Incentive Payment”).

(ii) Initial Equity Grant. In addition, following the Effective Date, Holdings will award the Executive the following equity grants, which shall have such additional terms as are established by the Compensation Committee of the Board and set forth in the respective award letters for such equity grants (collectively, the “Initial Equity Grants”): An equity grant of (A) $142,800 in value of restricted stock (with the number of shares of restricted stock included in the Initial Equity Grant to be based on the valuation of Holdings’ Common Stock as of the Effective Date using Holdings’ standard methodology for valuing restricted stock), which shares shall vest in full on the third anniversary of the Effective Date subject to the Executive’s continued employment with the Company until such time; and (B) $214,200 in value of stock subject to stock options (with the number of options included in the Initial Equity Grant to be based on the valuation of Holdings’ Common Stock as of the Effective Date using Holdings’ standard methodology for valuing stock options), which options shall vest twenty-five percent (25%) for each full year of the Executive’s continued employment with the Company commencing on the first anniversary of the Effective Date.

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(c) Team Incentive Plan. The Executive shall be eligible to participate in the Company’s team incentive plan with an annual incentive target established by the Board (“Incentive Payment”), subject to achievement of such program’s objectives and final approval of the Board. Notwithstanding the foregoing or the terms of the team incentive plan, the full Incentive Payment the Executive is eligible to receive under the team incentive plan based on objective performance factors must be paid and cannot be reduced or eliminated as a result of individual performance factors other than as a result of a good faith determination by the Board. The Executive also shall be eligible to receive commission payments based upon the achievement of objective performance factors as are established by the Compensation Committee of the Board (“Commission Payments”), subject to achievement of such performance objectives. The annual target (on a combined basis) for both the Incentive Payment and the Commission Payments shall equal seventy percent (70%) of the Executive’s Base Salary. The Incentive Payment and the Commission Payments, if any, shall be payable on or before the March 15 immediately following the end of the year in which the Incentive Payment or the Commission Payments, as applicable, vest and are no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture within the meaning of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).

(d) Benefits. During the Employment Term (and thereafter to the extent expressly provided herein), the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all of the Company’s employee benefit plans applicable to the Company’s comparable senior executives to the extent the Executive is entitled to so participate according to the terms of those plans. In addition to the foregoing compensation, the Company agrees that it shall provide to the Executive a monthly automobile allowance pursuant to Company policy payable in equal periodic installments, not less frequently than monthly, less any sums which may be required to be deducted or withheld under applicable provisions of law.

(e) Vacation. The Executive shall be entitled to a minimum of four (4) weeks of vacation annually, during which time the Executive shall receive compensation in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(f) Term Life Insurance. Subject to availability at non-rated premiums with no premium gross-up, during the Employment Term, and in addition to any other benefits to which Executive shall be entitled, the Company agrees to pay the premiums on a term life insurance contract covering the Executive that pays a death benefit of $363,000. The Company in its discretion shall select the term life insurance contract on which it will pay the premiums; but the Executive shall be the owner of such contract and will be or will designate the beneficiary of such contract. The Company will include and report such premium payments in the Executive’s taxable income to the extent required under applicable law. Such premium payments shall be paid on or before the March 15 immediately following the end of the year in which the premiums on such term life insurance contract accrued (provided the Executive was employed at such time). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in the event the term life insurance contract described herein extends beyond the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company, the Executive, and not the Company, shall be obligated to pay

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the premiums on such term life insurance contract accruing after the Executive’s termination of employment with the Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the Company’s preferred insurance providers, for whatever reason, are unwilling to insure the Executive on commercially reasonable terms, the Company will pay to the Executive an annual amount equal to the average life insurance premium paid to insure other Executives on a prorated cost per thousand basis in lieu of the term life insurance described in this paragraph. Such annual amount (prorated if the Executive is not employed for the full year) shall be paid on or before the March 15 immediately following the end of the year in which such term life insurance contract otherwise would have been provided.

4. Termination of Employment.

(a) By the Company For Cause. The Company may terminate the Executive’s employment under this Agreement at any time for Cause (as defined in Section 4(f)(i)) and shall provide written notice of termination to the Executive (which notice shall specify in reasonable detail the basis upon which such termination is made). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event, shall any termination of employment be deemed for Cause unless the Executive’s employment is terminated within one hundred eighty (180) days of when the Company learns of the act or conduct that constitutes Cause and the Board of Directors concludes that the situation warrants a determination that the Executive’s employment may be terminated for Cause. In the event the Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause, all provisions of this Agreement (other than Sections 5 through 15 hereof) and the Employment Term shall be terminated; provided, however, that such termination shall not divest the Executive of any previously vested benefit or right unless the terms of such vested benefit or right specifically require such divestiture where the Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause. In addition, the Executive shall be entitled to payment of the Executive’s earned and unpaid Base Salary to the date of termination payable as described above. The Executive also shall be entitled to unreimbursed business and entertainment expenses in accordance with, and payable at the same time set forth in, the Company’s policy (but no later than thirty (30) days after the date of termination), and unreimbursed medical, dental and other employee benefit expenses payable in accordance with the Company’s applicable employee benefit plans (the payments and benefits described in this subsection (a) herein after referred to as the “Standard Termination Payments”).

(b) Upon Death or Disability. If the Executive dies, all provisions of Section 3 of this Agreement (other than rights or benefits arising as a result of such death) and the Employment Term shall be automatically terminated; provided, however, that an amount equal to the earned and unpaid Incentive Payments to the date of death and the Standard Termination Payments shall be paid, as described above, to the Executive’s surviving spouse or, if none, the Executive’s estate (as set forth above), and the death benefits under the Company’s employee benefit plans shall be paid to the Executive’s beneficiary or beneficiaries as properly designated in writing by the Executive, in accordance with the Company’s applicable employee benefit plans. If the Executive is unable to perform the essential functions of the Executive’s job under this Agreement, with or without reasonable accommodation, by reason of physical or mental disability or incapacity (“Disability”) and such disability or incapacity shall have continued for any period aggregating six (6) months within any twelve (12) consecutive months, the Company may terminate the Executive’s employment, this Agreement and the Employment Term at any time thereafter. In such event, the Executive shall be entitled to receive the

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Executive’s normal compensation hereunder during said time of disability or incapacity, and shall thereafter be entitled to receive the “Disability Incentive Payment” (as described in the last sentence of this subsection (b)), payable no later than two and a half (2  ¹/₂) months after the Company terminates the Executive’s employment, and the earned and unpaid Incentive Payments to the date of termination of the Executive’s employment and the Standard Termination Payments, payable as described above. The portion of the payment representing the Disability Incentive Payment shall be paid in a lump sum determined on a net present value basis, using a reasonable discount rate determined by the Board. The Disability Incentive Payment shall be equal to the target Incentive Payment that the Executive would have been eligible to receive for the year in which the Employment Term is terminated multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in such year before and including the day of termination of the Employment Term and the denominator of which is the total number of days in such year.

(c) By the Company Without Cause.

(i) The Company may terminate the Executive’s employment under this Agreement at any time without Cause (for purposes of clarity, it is acknowledged that expiration of the Employment Term (including notice of non-renewal) shall not be considered a termination without Cause), and other than by reason of the Executive’s death or disability. The Company shall provide written notice of termination to the Executive, which notice shall specify the effective date of such termination and that the termination is without Cause (the “Termination Date”). If the Termination Date is later than the date of the notice, then from the date of the notice through the Termination Date, the Executive shall continue to perform the normal duties of the Executive’s employment hereunder, and shall be entitled to receive when due all compensation and benefits applicable to the Executive hereunder, payable as described above. Thereafter, conditioned upon the Executive executing and not revoking an effective general release in favor of the Company, the Board and their affiliates, in a form mutually acceptable to both parties hereto, within sixty (60) days after termination of the Executive’s employment, the Company shall pay the Executive the amounts set forth in this subsection (c) (except for the amounts set forth in subsection (c)(iii) which shall be paid as set forth below regardless of whether the Executive executes such release). Under such circumstances, subject to subsection (c)(v) and Section 19 below, the Company shall pay the Executive an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the Executive’s Base Salary for a period of twelve (12) months beginning immediately after the Termination Date (the “Termination Period”), in such periodic installments as were being paid immediately prior to the Termination Date, no less frequently than monthly, less any sums which may be required to be deducted or withheld under applicable provisions of law.

(ii) Subject to subsection (c)(v) and Section 19 below, the Company shall pay the Executive a lump sum, determined on a net present value basis, using a reasonable discount rate determined by the Board, equal to the full target Incentive Payment for the year that includes the Termination Date multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of weeks in the Termination Period and the denominator of which is fifty-two (52), no later than two and a half (2  ¹/₂) months after the Termination Date.

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(iii) The Company shall also be obligated to pay to the Executive the earned and unpaid Commission Payments to the Termination Date and the Standard Termination Payments (as described above).

(iv) During the Termination Period, subject to subsection (c)(v) and Section 19 below, the Executive and the Executive’s dependents will be entitled to continued medical and dental benefits under the “employee welfare benefit plans” (as defined in Section 3(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) in which the Executive and the Executive’s dependents participated on the Executive’s Termination Date with respect to any such plans for which such continued participation is allowed pursuant to applicable law and the terms of the plan on the same terms as active employees (with the Company to pay or reimburse the Executive for such continued participation on a monthly basis). In lieu of medical and dental coverage for which such continued participation is not allowed, subject to subsection (c)(v) and Section 19 below, the Executive will be reimbursed, on a net after-tax basis, on a monthly basis, for the cost of individual insurance coverage for the Executive and the Executive’s dependents under a policy or policies that provide medical and dental benefits not less favorable than the medical and dental benefits provided under such employee welfare benefit plans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the coverage or reimbursements for coverage provided under this subsection (iv) shall cease if the Executive and/or the Executive’s dependents become covered under an employee welfare benefit plan of another employer of the Executive that provides the same or similar type of medical and dental benefits.

(v) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions, any payments to be made, or benefits to be delivered, under this subsection (c) (except for the amounts set forth in subsection (c)(iii) above) within the sixty (60) days after the Termination Date shall be accumulated and paid, subject to Section 19 below, in a lump sum on the first payroll date occurring more than sixty (60) days, and less than two and a half (2  ¹/₂) months, after the Termination Date, provided the Executive executes the release described above and the applicable revocation period thereunder expires within the time described above without the Executive having elected to revoke the release. Any benefits to be provided to the Executive during such time may be provided at the Executive’s expense with the Executive having the right to reimbursement of such amounts at the time described above.

(vi) In addition, Executive and the Executive’s dependents will be entitled to receive from the Company, and the Company shall provide to the Executive and the Executive’s dependents, medical benefits not less favorable than and on the same terms and for the same periods as those provided under the Company’s Postretirement Medical And Life Insurance Benefits Plan, as in effect on the date hereof or the Termination Date, whichever is more favorable to the Executive, regardless of whether the Executive or the Executive’s dependents are otherwise eligible to participate in such plan. The Company, if it chooses, may provide such medical coverage under such Postretirement Medical and Life Insurance Benefits Plan, if the Executive otherwise is eligible thereunder, or in lieu of medical coverage under such plan, subject to subsection (c)(v) above and Section 19 below, the Company may pay for or may procure, no less frequently than monthly, individual insurance coverage for the Executive and the Executive’s dependents under a policy or policies that provide medical benefits and terms not less favorable than the medical benefits and terms provided under such Post Retirement Medical And Life Insurance Benefits Plan, as in effect on the date hereof or the Termination Date, whichever is more favorable to the Executive.

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(d) By the Executive. The Executive may terminate the Executive’s employment, and any further obligations which the Executive may have to perform services on behalf of the Company hereunder at any time after the date hereof; by sending written notice of termination to the Company not less than sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of such termination. During such sixty (60) day period, the Executive shall continue to perform the normal duties of the Executive’s employment hereunder and shall be entitled to receive when due all compensation and benefits applicable to the Executive hereunder, payable as described above. Except as provided below, if the Executive shall elect to terminate the Executive’s employment hereunder (other than as a result of the Executive’s death or disability), then the Executive shall remain vested in all vested benefits provided for hereunder or under any benefit plan of the Company in which the Executive is a participant and shall be entitled to receive the earned and unpaid Incentive Payments to the date of termination of the Executive’s employment and the Standard Termination Payments (as set forth above), but the Company shall have no further obligation to make payments or provide benefits to the Executive under Section 3 hereof. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the termination of the Executive’s employment by the Executive for Good Reason (as defined in Section 4(f)(ii)), shall be deemed to be a termination of the Executive’s employment without Cause by the Company for purposes of this Agreement, and the Executive shall be entitled to the payments and benefits set forth in Section 4(c) above, payable as and upon the terms described above, subject to the Executive executing and not revoking a general release in favor of the Company, the Board and their affiliates, in a form mutually acceptable to both parties hereto, within sixty (60) days after the termination of Executive’s employment subject to subsection 4(c)(v) above and Section 19 below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall any termination of employment by the Executive be deemed for Good Reason unless the Executive terminates employment within one hundred eighty (180) days of when the Executive learns of the act or conduct that constitutes Good Reason.

(e) Change in Control. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, in the event of a termination of the Executive’s employment without Cause by the Company, or by the Executive for Good Reason, in contemplation of or within the one (1) year period after a Change in Control (a “Change in Control Termination”), the Termination Period shall be the twenty-four (24) months beginning immediately after the Termination Date for purposes of calculating payments and other benefits to be made by the Company to the Executive. The Executive’s employment will be considered to have been terminated “in contemplation of” a Change in Control only if the Company makes a public announcement or files a report or proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing a transaction or series of transactions which, if completed, would constitute a Change in Control and the Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause, or by the Executive for Good Reason, during the period beginning with such disclosure and ending on the earlier of (x) the date that the Board, acting in good faith, adopts a resolution stating that the transaction or series of transactions will not be completed or (y) the date that such transaction or series of transactions is completed.

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(f) Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions will apply:

(i) Cause. The term “Cause” means: (i) gross or willful misconduct; (ii) willful and repeated failure to comply with the lawful directives of the Board or any supervisory personnel; (iii) any criminal act or act of dishonesty or willful misconduct that has a material adverse impact on the property, operations, business or reputation of the Company or its subsidiaries or any act of fraud, dishonesty or misappropriation involving the Company or its subsidiaries; (iv) any conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a felony (other than traffic offenses) or a crime involving dishonesty; (v) the material breach of the terms of any confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation or employment agreement the employee has with the Company or its subsidiaries; (vi) acts of malfeasance or negligence in a matter of material importance to the Company or its subsidiaries; (vii) the material failure to perform the duties and responsibilities of employee’s position after written notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure (not to exceed ninety (90) days); (viii) grossly negligent conduct; or (ix) activities materially damaging to the property, operations, business or reputation of the Company or its subsidiaries (it being understood that conduct or activities pursuant to employee’s exercise of good faith business judgment shall not be in violation of this Section 4(f)(i).

(ii) Good Reason. “Good Reason” means, after written notice by the Executive to the Board, and a reasonable opportunity for the Company to cure (not to exceed forty-five (45) days), that (i) the Executive’s Base Salary is not paid or is reduced by more than ten percent (10%) in the aggregate or other than as part of a salary reduction program pursuant to which the Base Salaries of the Chief Executive Officer, all Executive Vice Presidents and all Senior Vice Presidents are reduced by the same percentage at the same time and for the same period of time, (ii) the Executive’s target Incentive Payment is reduced, (iii) the Executive’s job duties and responsibilities are diminished; provided that so long as the Executive retains the title Executive Vice President or higher and remains within the Company’s sales or marketing organization, a division of, or change in, responsibilities, or change in title, of the Executive shall not constitute a “diminution” under this subparagraph (iii), (iv) if after having relocated to Virginia the Executive is required to relocate to a facility more than 50 miles from Waynesboro, Virginia, (v) the Executive is not provided benefits (e.g., health insurance) that are comparable in all material respects to those previously provided to the Executive, (vi) the Executive is directed by the Board or an officer of the Company or an affiliate (or the Company’s successor or an affiliate thereof) to engage in conduct that Company counsel, or mutually agreed upon counsel if requested by the Executive, has advised is likely to be illegal and that such counsel states with specificity why such direction is likely to be illegal (including a proposal for modification of such direction which in counsel’s opinion would not be likely to be illegal), or (vii) the Executive is directed by the Board or an officer of the Company or an affiliate (or the Company’s successor or an affiliate thereof) to refrain from acting and Company counsel, or mutually agreed upon counsel if requested by the Executive, has advised that such failure to act is likely to be illegal and that such counsel states with specificity why such direction is likely to be illegal (including a proposal for modification of such direction which in counsel’s opinion would not be likely to be illegal). If the Executive is directed to engage in conduct that he reasonably believes is likely to be illegal or to refrain from acting and the Executive reasonably believes that such failure to act is likely to be illegal, the Executive can express such reservations to the Board or directing officer, and the Company shall, at its expense, engage Company

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counsel, or mutually agreed upon counsel if requested by the Executive, to advise as to whether such conduct or failure to act is likely to be illegal. Subject to the last sentence of Section 4(d) hereof, if any of the events occur that would entitle the Executive to terminate the Executive’s employment for Good Reason hereunder and the Executive does not exercise such right to terminate the Executive’s employment, any such failure shall not operate to waive the Executive’s right to terminate the Executive’s employment for that or any subsequent action or actions, whether similar or dissimilar, that would constitute Good Reason. For purposes of clarity, it is acknowledged that expiration of the Employment Term (including notice of non-renewal) shall not be considered “Good Reason” hereunder.

(iii) Change in Control. “Change in Control” means any of the following described in clauses (I) through (IV) below, provided that a “Change in Control” shall not mean any event listed in clauses (I) through (IV) that occurs directly or indirectly as a result of or in connection with Quadrangle Capital Partners LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Quadrangle Select Partners LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Quadrangle Capital Partners – A LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and Quadrangle NTELOS Holdings II LP, a Delaware limited partnership (collectively the “Quadrangle Entities”) and/or their Affiliates, related funds and co-investors becoming the owner or “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of Holdings representing more than fifty-one percent (51%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities, or the shareholders of Holdings approve a merger, consolidation or reorganization of Holdings with any other company and such merger, consolidation or reorganization is consummated, and after such merger, consolidation or reorganization any of the Quadrangle Entities or their respective Affiliates, related funds and co-investors acquire more than fifty-one percent (51%) of the combined voting power of Holdings’ then outstanding securities:

(I) any Person is or becomes the owner or “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of Holdings representing more than fifty-one percent (51%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities;

(II) consummation of a merger, consolidation or reorganization of Holdings with any other company, or a sale of all or substantially all the assets of Holdings (a “Transaction”), other than (i) a Transaction that would result in the voting securities of Holdings outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent either directly or indirectly more than fifty-one percent (51%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities of Holdings or such surviving or purchasing entity;

(III) the shareholders of Holdings approve a plan of complete liquidation of Holdings and such liquidation is consummated; or

(IV) During any period of twelve (12) consecutive months commencing on November 1, 2011, (i) the individuals who constituted the Board on November 1, 2011, and (ii) any new director who either (A) was elected by the Board or nominated for election by Holdings’ stockholders and whose election or nomination was approved by a vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of the directors then still in office who either were directors on November 1, 2011, or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved or (B) was appointed to the Board pursuant to the designation of Quadrangle Entities, cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board.

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For purposes of the foregoing, “Person” means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization, including a government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.

For purposes of the foregoing, “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person.

5. Confidential Information. The Executive understands and acknowledges that during the Executive’s employment with the Company, the Executive has been and will be making use of, acquiring or adding to the Company’s Confidential Information (as defined below). In order to protect the Confidential Information, the Executive will not, during the Executive’s employment with the Company or at any time thereafter, in any way utilize any of the Confidential Information except in connection with the Executive’s employment by the Company. The Executive will not at any time use any Confidential Information for the Executive’s own benefit or the benefit of any person except the Company. At the end of the Executive’s employment with the Company, the Executive will surrender and return to the Company any and all Confidential Information in the Executive’s possession or control, as well as any other Company property that is in the Executive’s possession or control. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that any breach of this Section 5 would be a material breach of this Agreement. The term “Confidential Information” shall mean any information that is confidential and proprietary to the Company and is not known or made available to the public (other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement by the Executive), including but not limited to the following general categories:

(i) trade secrets;

(ii) lists and other information about current and prospective customers;

(iii) plans or strategies for sales, marketing, business development, or system build-out;

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(iv) sales and account records;

(v) prices or pricing strategy or information;

(vi) current and proposed advertising and promotional programs;

(vii) engineering and technical data;

(viii) the Company’s methods, systems, techniques, procedures, designs, formulae, inventions and know-how; personnel information;

(ix) legal advice and strategies; and

(x) other information of a similar nature not known or made available to the public or the Company’s Competitors (as defined in Section 8).

Confidential Information includes any such information that the Executive may prepare or create during the Executive’s employment with the Company, as well as such information that has been or may be created or prepared by others. This promise of confidentiality is in addition to any common law or statutory rights of the Company to prevent disclosure of its Trade Secrets and/or Confidential Information.

6. Return of Documents. All writings, records and other documents and things containing any Confidential Information in the Executive’s custody or possession shall be the exclusive property of the Company, shall not be copied and/or removed from the premises of the Company, except in pursuit of the business of the Company, and shall be delivered to the Company, without retaining any copies, upon the termination of the Executive’s employment or at any time as requested by the Company.

7. Reaffirm Obligations. Upon termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company, the Executive shall, if requested by the Company, reaffirm in writing Employee’s recognition of the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of the Company’s proprietary information and trade secrets and reaffirm all of the obligations set forth in Section 5 of this Agreement.

8. Non-Compete; Non-Solicitation. The Executive agrees that:

(a) While the Executive is employed by the Company, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, compete with the business conducted by the Company, and the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, provide any services to a Competitor.

(b) For a period of twelve (12) months (the “Non-Competition Period”) after the Executive’s employment with the Company ends for any reason, the Executive will not compete with the Company by performing or causing to be performed the same or similar types of duties or services that the Executive performed for the Company for a Competitor of the Company in any capacity whatsoever, directly or indirectly, within any city or county of the continental United States in which, at the time the Executive’s employment with the Company ends, the Company provides services or products, offers to provide services or products, or has

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documented plans to provide or offer to provide services or products within the Non-Competition Period provided that the Executive has knowledge of those plans at the time the Executive’s employment with the Company ends (the “Service Area”). Additionally, the Executive agrees that during the Non-Competition Period, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, sell, attempt to sell, provide or attempt to provide, any wireline telecommunication services, including but not limited to internet services, to any person or entity who was a customer or an actively sought prospective customer of the Company, at any time during the Executive’s employment with the Company. The restrictions set forth above shall immediately terminate and shall be of no further force or effect in the event of a default by the Company in the payment of any consideration, if any, to which the Executive is entitled under Section 8(i) below, which default is not cured within thirty (30) days after written notice thereof. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that because of the nature of the Company’s business, the nature of the Executive’s job responsibilities, and the nature of the Confidential Information and Trade Secrets of the Company which the Company will give the Executive access to, any breach of this provision by the Executive would result in the inevitable disclosure of the Company’s Trade Secrets and Confidential Information to its direct competitors.

(c) While the Executive is employed by the Company and during the Non-Competition Period, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, solicit or encourage any employee of the Company to terminate employment with the Company; hire, or cause to be hired, for any employment by a Competitor, any person who within the preceding twelve (12) month period has been employed by the Company, or assist any other person, firm, or corporation to do any of the acts described in this subsection (c).

(d) The Executive acknowledges and agrees that the Company has a legitimate business interest in preventing him from engaging in activities competitive with it as described in this Section 8 and that any breach of this Section 8 would constitute a material breach of this Section 8 and this Agreement.

(e) The Company may notify anyone employing the Executive or evidencing an intention to employ the Executive during the Non-Competition Period as to the existence and provisions of this Agreement and may provide such person or organization a copy of this Agreement. The Executive agrees that the Executive will provide the Company with a notice containing the identity of any employer the Executive plans to go to work for during the Non-Competition Period along with the Executive’s anticipated job title, anticipated job duties with any such employer, and anticipated start date. The Company will analyze the proposed employment and make a determination as to whether it would violate this Section 8. The Company will notify the Executive in writing within ten (10) business days following the receipt of the Executive’s notice as to whether or not the Company objects to the proposed employment. The Executive further agrees to provide a copy of this Agreement to anyone who employs the Executive during the Non-Competition Period.

(f) The Executive acknowledges and agrees that this Section 8 is intended to limit the Executive’s right to compete only to the extent necessary to protect the Company’s legitimate business interest. The Executive acknowledges and agrees that the Executive will be reasonably able to earn a livelihood without violating the terms of this Section 8. If any of the provisions of this Section 8 should ever be deemed to exceed the time, geographic area, or

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activity limitations permitted by applicable law, the Executive agrees that such provisions may be reformed to the maximum time, geographic area and activity limitations permitted by applicable law, and the Executive authorizes a court or other trier of fact having jurisdiction to so reform such provisions. In the event the Executive breaches any of the restrictions or provisions set forth in this Section 8, the Executive waives and forfeits any and all rights to any further benefits under this Agreement, including but not limited to the consideration set forth in subsection (i) below as well as any additional payments, compensation, benefits or severance pay he may otherwise be entitled to receive under this Agreement. Additionally, in the event the Executive breaches any of the restrictions or provisions set forth in this Section 8, the Executive agrees to repay the Company for any of the consideration set forth in subsection (i) below that the Executive received prior to the breach as well as any additional payments, compensation, benefits or severance pay the Executive might otherwise have previously received under Section 4(c) of this Agreement.

(g) For purposes of this Section 8, the following definitions will apply:

(i) “Directly or indirectly” as used in this Agreement includes an interest in or participation in a business as an individual, partner, shareholder, owner, director, officer, principal, agent, employee, consultant, trustee, lender of money, or in any other capacity or relation whatsoever. The term includes actions taken on behalf of the Executive or on behalf of any other person. “Directly or indirectly” does not include the ownership of less than five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of any corporation, if such shares are publicly traded in the over-the-counter market or listed on a national securities exchange.

(ii) “Competitor” as used in this Agreement means any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation or other entity that competes or attempts to compete with the Company by providing or offering to provide wireline telecommunication services, including but not limited to internet services, within any city or county in which the Company provides or offers those services or products.

(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 8, the Executive will not be considered to have violated any prohibition against competing with the Company for engaging in any of the following activities: (1) being employed or retained by (i) any parent, subsidiary or affiliate organization of any Competitor where that parent, subsidiary or affiliate organization does not itself, and the Executive’s employment will not cause the Executive to, compete or attempt to compete with the Company by providing or offering to provide wireline telecommunications services, including but not limited to internet services, within the Service Area or (ii) any Competitor, directly or indirectly, so long as Executive’s employment or service does not relate to (A) working principally within the Service Area or (B) activities that would benefit the Competitor principally within the Service Area and in each of (A) or (B) the Service Area is not the Primary Focus of the business operations of the Competitor; or (2) working or providing services within the Service Area so long as the Executive’s employment or service does not relate to the type of services provided or offered by the Company within that Service Area or to services for which the Company has documented plans to provide, offer or supply within that Service Area at the time of Executive’s termination of employment; or (3) selling or attempting to sell wireline telecommunications services, including but not limited to internet services, so long as the services or products, which the Executive is selling or attempting to sell

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to a customer, do not relate to the type of services or products provided or offered by the Company to such customer or for which the Company has documented plans to provide, offer or supply to such customer at the time of Executive’s termination of employment; provided, however, that the Executive is nevertheless prohibited from: (i) selling, attempting to sell, and providing or attempting to provide, to any person who was a customer, or who was actively sought as a customer, of the Company at the time of Executive’s termination of employment any wireline telecommunications services, including but not limited to internet services, that are the type of services or products that the Company sold, attempted to sell or provided or attempted to provide to such customer as described in (b) above and (ii) soliciting or encouraging any employee of the Company to terminate employment or taking any other of the prohibited actions as described in (c) above. For purposes hereof, “Primary Focus” with respect to a Competitor means that more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the consolidated revenues of such Competitor were derived from such Competitor’s and its consolidated subsidiaries’ wireline telecommunications services, including but not limited to internet services, in the Service Area in the Competitor’s most recently completed fiscal year before any applicable date of determination.

(i) In consideration of the Executive’s undertakings set forth in this Section 8 with respect to periods after termination of employment, but only in the event that the Executive is entitled to the benefits and payments under Section 4(c) above, subject to subsection 4(c)(v) and Section 19 below, the Company will pay the Executive an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of his Base Salary during the Termination Period, in such periodic installments, not less frequently than monthly, as his Base Salary was being paid immediately prior to termination of employment, with a lump sum payment on the sixtieth (60) day after termination of the Executive’s employment equal to the payments the Executive would have received had the payments commenced immediately following termination of the Executive’s employment and subsequent installments in equal periodic installments thereafter, no less frequently than monthly, less any sums which may be required to be deducted or withheld under applicable provisions of law. In the event the Executive is not entitled to the benefits and payments under Section 4(c) above, the Company will not pay the Executive any of the consideration set forth in this Section 8(i).

(j) In the event the Executive breaches any of the restrictions or provisions set forth in this Section 8, the Executive waives and forfeits any and all rights to any further payments under subsection (i) or otherwise under this Agreement and agrees to return to the Company the gross amount of any amounts previously paid, and the value of any benefits previously provided under this Agreement. This waiver and forfeiture shall be effective even in the event a court refuses to enforce the restrictions set forth in this Section 8.

9. Representations. The Executive represents and warrants to the Company that the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Executive does not conflict with, or result in the breach by the Executive or violation by the Executive of, any other agreement to which the Executive is a party or by which the Executive is bound. The Executive hereby agrees to indemnify the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders and hold them harmless from and against any liability (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) which they may at any time suffer or incur arising out of or relating to any breach of an agreement, representation or warranty made by the Executive herein. The Company represents

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and warrants that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by the Company by all necessary corporate and shareholder action, and that the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company does not conflict with, or result in the breach or violation by the Company of, its Certificate of Incorporation, Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or any other agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. The Company hereby agrees to indemnify the Executive and hold the Executive harmless from and against any liability (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) which the Executive may at any time suffer or incur arising out of or relating to any breach of an agreement, representation or warranty made by the Company herein. Any indemnity to be paid hereunder shall be payable within thirty (30) days after the Company and the Executive agree that such amounts are owed or there is a final settlement or resolution of the claim or dispute for which the payments are required.

10. Remedies. The parties hereto agree that the Company would suffer irreparable harm from a breach by the Executive of any of the covenants or agreements contained herein. Therefore, in the event of the actual or threatened breach by the Executive of any of the provisions of this Agreement, the Company may, in addition and supplementary to other rights and remedies existing in its favor, apply to any court of law or equity of competent jurisdiction for specific performance and/or injunctive or other relief in order to enforce or prevent any violation of the provisions hereof. The Executive agrees that if a lawsuit or other proceeding is brought to enforce the terms of this Agreement or determine the validity of its terms and the Company prevails, the Company will be entitled to recover from the Executive its reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs. The Executive agrees that these provisions are reasonable.

11. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company and its affiliates and their successors and assigns, and shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Executive and the Executive’s legal representatives and assigns, provided that in no event shall the Executive’s obligations to perform services for the Company and its affiliates be delegated or transferred by the Executive. The Company may assign or transfer its rights hereunder to a successor corporation in the event of a merger, consolidation, transfer or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company’s business (provided, however, that no such assignment or transfer shall have the effect of relieving the Company of any liability to the Executive hereunder or under any other agreement or document contemplated herein), but only if such assignment or transfer does not result in employment terms, conditions, duties or responsibilities which are or may be materially different than the terms, conditions, duties or responsibilities of the Executive hereunder. If the Company assigns or transfers its rights under this Agreement to a successor corporation, the Executive’s obligations under Section 8 of this Agreement will be construed and enforceable with respect to the business and geographic scope of the Company only and will not be construed or enforceable with respect to the business and geographic scope of any successor corporation to which the Company’s rights may be assigned or transferred to the extent such business or geographic scope is greater than that of the Company at the time of such assignment or transfer. The Executive may not transfer or assign the Executive’s rights and obligations under this Agreement

12. Modification or Waiver. No amendment, modification, waiver, termination or cancellation of this Agreement shall be binding or effective for any purpose unless it is made in a writing signed by the party against whom enforcement of such amendment, modification,

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waiver, termination or cancellation is sought. No course of dealing between or among the parties to this Agreement shall be deemed to affect or to modify, amend or discharge any provision or term of this Agreement. No delay on the part of the Company or the Executive in the exercise of any of their respective rights or remedies shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise by the Company or the Executive of any such right or remedy shall preclude other or further exercises thereof. A waiver of a right or remedy on any one occasion shall not be construed as a bar to or waiver of any such right or remedy on any other occasion.

13. Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement and all rights, remedies and obligations hereunder, including, but not limited to, matters of construction, validity and performance shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia without regard to its conflict of laws principles or rules. To the full extent lawful, each of the Company and the Executive hereby consents irrevocably to personal jurisdiction, service and venue in connection with any claim or controversy arising out of this Agreement in the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia located in Waynesboro, Virginia, and in the federal courts in the Western District of Virginia.

14. Excise Taxes.

(a) If any payment or distribution by the Company or any affiliate to or for the benefit of the Executive, whether paid or payable or distributed or distributable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or otherwise pursuant to or by reason of any other agreement, policy, plan, program or arrangement, including without limitation any stock option, stock appreciation right or similar right, or the lapse or termination of any restriction on or the vesting or exercisability of any of the foregoing (a “Payment”), would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Code Section 4999 or to any similar tax imposed by state or local law, or any interest or penalties with respect to such tax (such tax or taxes, together with any such interest and penalties, being hereafter collectively referred to as the “Excise Tax”), then the benefits payable or provided under this Agreement (or other Payments as described above) shall be reduced (but not in excess of the amount of the benefits payable or provided under this Agreement) if, and only to the extent that, such reduction will allow the Executive to receive a greater Net After Tax Amount than such Executive would receive absent such reduction.

(b) The Accounting Firm (as defined below) will first determine the amount of any Parachute Payments (as defined below) that are payable to the Executive. The Accounting Firm also will determine the Net After Tax Amount attributable to the Executive’s total Parachute Payments.

(c) The Accounting Firm will next determine the largest amount of payments that may be made to the Executive without subjecting the Executive to the Excise Tax (the “Capped Payments”). Thereafter, the Accounting Firm will determine the Net After Tax Amount attributable to the Capped Payments.

(d) The Executive then will receive the total Parachute Payments or the total Capped Payments, whichever provides the Executive with the higher Net After Tax Amount; however, if the reductions imposed under this Section 14 are in excess of the amount of benefits payable or provided under this Agreement, then the total Parachute Payments will be adjusted by

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first reducing, on a pro rata basis, the amount of any noncash or cash benefits under this Agreement, then noncash or cash benefits under any other plan, agreement or arrangement, then any cash payments under this Agreement and finally any cash payments under any other plan agreement or arrangement. The Accounting Firm will notify the Executive and the Company if it determines that the Parachute Payments must be reduced and will send the Executive and the Company a copy of its detailed calculations supporting that determination.

(e) As a result of the uncertainty in the application of Code Sections 280G and 4999 at the time that the Accounting Firm makes its determinations under this Section 14, it is possible that the Executive will have received Parachute Payments or Capped Payments in excess of the amount that should have been paid or distributed (“Overpayments”), or that additional Parachute Payments or Capped Payments should be paid or distributed to the Executive (“Underpayments”). If the Accounting Firm determines, based on either the assertion of a deficiency by the Internal Revenue Service against the Company or the Executive, which assertion the Accounting Firm believes has a high probability of success or controlling precedent or substantial authority, that an Overpayment has been made, that Overpayment may, at the Executive’s discretion, be treated for all purposes as a loan ab initio that the Executive must repay to the Company immediately together with interest at the applicable Federal rate under Code Section 7872; provided, however, that no loan will be deemed to have been made and no amount will be payable by the Executive to the Company unless, and then only to the extent that, the deemed loan and payment would either reduce the amount on which the Executive is subject to tax under Code Section 4999 or generate a refund of tax imposed under Code Section 4999 and the Executive will receive a greater Net After Tax Amount than such Executive would otherwise receive. If the Accounting Firm determines, based upon controlling precedent or substantial authority, that an Underpayment has occurred, the Accounting Firm will notify the Executive and the Company of that determination and the amount of that Underpayment will be paid to the Executive promptly by the Company after such determination.

(f) For purposes of this Section 14, the following terms shall have their respective meanings:

(i) “Accounting Firm” means the independent accounting firm currently engaged by the Company, or a mutually agreed upon independent accounting firm if requested by the Executive; and

(ii) “Net After Tax Amount” means the amount of any Parachute Payments or Capped Payments, as applicable, net of taxes imposed under Code Sections 1, 3101 (b) and 4999 and any State or local income taxes applicable to the Executive on the date of payment. The determination of the Net After Tax Amount shall be made using the highest combined effective rate imposed by the foregoing taxes on income of the same character as the Parachute Payments or Capped Payments, as applicable, in effect on the date of payment.

(iii) “Parachute Payment” means a payment that is described in Code Section 280G(b)(2), determined in accordance with Code Section 280G and the regulations promulgated or proposed thereunder.

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(g) The fees and expenses of the Accounting Firm for its services in connection with the determinations and calculations contemplated by the preceding subsections shall be borne by the Company.

(h) The Company and the Executive shall each provide the Accounting Firm access to and copies of any books, records and documents in the possession of the Company or the Executive, as the case may be, reasonably requested by the Accounting Firm, and otherwise cooperate with the Accounting Firm in connection with the preparation and issuance of the determinations and calculations contemplated by the preceding subsections. Any determination by the Accounting Firm shall be binding upon the Company and the Executive.

15. Severability. Whenever possible each provision and term of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such a manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision or term of this Agreement shall be held to be prohibited by or invalid under such applicable law, then such provision or term shall be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating or affecting in any manner whatsoever the remainder of such provisions or term or the remaining provisions or terms of this Agreement. If any provision contained in Sections 5 or 8 of this Agreement shall for any reason be held to be excessively broad or unreasonable as to time, territory, or interest to be protected, a court is hereby empowered and requested to construe such provision by narrowing it so as to make it reasonable and enforceable to the extent provided under applicable law.

16. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in separate counterparts, each of which is deemed to be an original and all of which taken together constitute one and the same Agreement.

17. Headings. The headings of the Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not be deemed to constitute a part hereof and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

18. Entire Agreement. This Agreement (together with all documents and instruments referred to herein) constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, including any prior employment or management continuity agreement under which the Executive hereby agrees to waive all rights and which is hereby terminated.

19. Section 409A. It is intended that any payment or benefit which the Executive is to be paid or provided in connection with this Agreement which is considered to be non-qualified deferred compensation subject to Section 409A of the Code, shall be paid and provided in a manner, and at such time, as complies with, or is exempt from, the applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Code. In connection with effecting such compliance with, or exemption from, Section 409A of the Code, the following shall apply:

(a) Neither the Executive nor the Company shall take any action to accelerate or delay the payment of any monies and/or provision of any benefits in any matter which would not be in compliance with, or exempt from, Section 409A of the Code.

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(b) If the Executive is a “specified employee” for purposes of Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code, any payment or provision of benefits in connection with the Executive’s separation from service (as determined for purposes of Section 409A of the Code) shall not be made until six (6) months after the Executive’s separation from service or, if earlier, the Executive’s death (the “409A Deferral Period”) as and to the extent required under Section 409A of the Code. In the event such payments are otherwise due to be made in installments or periodically during the 409A Deferral Period, the payments which would otherwise have been made in the 409A Deferral Period shall be accumulated and paid in a lump sum as soon as, and within thirty (30) days after, the 409A Deferral Period ends, and the balance of the payments shall be made as otherwise scheduled. In the event such benefits are required to be deferred, any such benefits may be provided during the 409A Deferral Period at the Executive’s expense, and the Executive will have the right to reimbursement from the Company as soon as, and within thirty (30) days after, the 409A Deferral Period ends, and the balance of the benefits shall be provided as otherwise scheduled.

(c) For purposes of this Agreement, all rights to payments and benefits hereunder shall be treated as rights to receive a series of separate payments and benefits to the fullest extent allowed by Section 409A of the Code.

(d) For purposes of determining time of (but not entitlement to) the payment or provision of non-qualified deferred compensation under this Agreement subject to Section 409A of the Code in connection with the termination of the Executive’s employment, termination of employment will be construed to mean a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code where it is reasonably anticipated that the Executive will not perform any further services after that date or that the level of bona fide services that the Executive will perform after that date (whether as an employee or independent contractor) will permanently decrease to no more than twenty percent (20%) of the average level of bona fide services the Executive performed over the immediately preceding thirty-six (36) month period.

(e) A “specified employee” for purposes of Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code shall be determined on the basis of the applicable twelve (12)-month period ending on the specified employee identification date designated by the Company consistently for purposes of this Agreement and similar agreements or, if no such designation is made, based on the default rules and regulations under Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code.

(f) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Agreement, the Company shall not be liable to the Executive if any payment or benefit which is to be provided pursuant to this Agreement and which is non-qualified deferred compensation subject to Section 409A of the Code otherwise fails to comply with, or be exempt from, the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.

[SIGNATURES APPEAR ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE]

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

LUMOS NETWORKS OPERATING COMPANY
LUMOS NETWORKS CORP.
LUMOS PAYROLL CORP.
By:	/s/ Timothy G. Biltz
	Timothy G. Biltz
	President and Chief Executive Officer
Executive
By:	/s/ Joseph E. McCourt, Jr.
	Joseph E. McCourt, Jr.

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EX-21.1

Exhibit 21.1

SUBSIDIARIES OF LUMOS NETWORKS CORP.

Subsidiary	Jurisdiction of Organization
FiberNet Telecommunications of Pennsylvania, LLC	Pennsylvania
FiberNet of Ohio, LLC	Ohio
FiberNet of Virginia, LLC	Virginia
Lumos Networks LLC	West Virginia
Lumos Networks Corp.	Delaware
Lumos Networks Operating Company	Delaware
Lumos Telephone Inc.	Virginia
Lumos Networks of West Virginia Inc.	Virginia
Mountaineer Telecommunications, LLC	West Virginia
Lumos Networks Inc.	Virginia
Lumos FiberNet Inc.	Virginia
Valley Network Partnership	Virginia
Lumos Telephone LLC	Virginia
Virginia Independent Telephone Alliance LC	Virginia
Lumos Telephone of Botetourt	Virginia
Lumos Media Inc.	Virginia
R & B Telephone LLC	Virginia

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

Report and Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Lumos Networks Corp.:

The audits referred to in our report dated March 8, 2013, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Lumos Networks Corp. (the Company), included the related financial statement schedule (Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts) as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012 included in Item 15(a)2 of the Company’s 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K. This financial statement schedule is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this financial statement schedule based on our audits. In our opinion, such financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement No. 333-177627 on Form S-8 of the Company of our reports dated March 8, 2013, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows, and equity for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012, and the related financial statement schedule, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, which reports appear in the 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Richmond, Virginia

March 8, 2013

EX-31.1

Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Timothy G. Biltz, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 of Lumos Networks Corp.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) [Omitted pursuant to SEC Release No. 34-54942];

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: March 8, 2013

/s/ Timothy G. Biltz

Timothy G. Biltz

President and Chief Executive Officer

EX-31.2

Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Harold L. Covert, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 of Lumos Networks Corp.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) [Omitted pursuant to SEC Release No. 34-54942];

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: March 8, 2013

/s/ Harold L. Covert

Harold L. Covert

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

EX-32.1

Exhibit 32.1

LUMOS NETWORKS CORP.

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the annual report of Lumos Networks Corp. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 (the “Report”), I, Timothy G. Biltz, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, do hereby certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to my knowledge that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

By:	/s/ Timothy G. Biltz
	Timothy G. Biltz
	President and Chief Executive Officer

March 8, 2013

EX-32.2

Exhibit 32.2

LUMOS NETWORKS CORP.

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the annual report of Lumos Networks Corp. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 (the “Report”), I, Harold L. Covert, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, do hereby certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to my knowledge that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

By:	/s/ Harold L. Covert
	Harold L. Covert
	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

March 8, 2013

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Significant Accounting Policies (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)	10 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Sep. 08, 2011
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Corporate expenses	$ 2,600,000			$ 5,100,000
Book overdraft reclassified		1,800,000
Cash reimbursement received from broadband stimulus grant		2,251,000	508,000
Restricted cash reimbursement receivable		1,500,000
Restricted cash		5,303,000	7,554,000
Bad debt expenses		600,000	1,000,000	300,000
Accounts receivable, allowance		1,822,000	2,822,000
Asset impairment charge other than goodwill			20,857,000
Asset impairment charge other than goodwill, net of tax			12,700,000
Accelerated depreciation costs recorded as a result of a change in estimate		1,400,000
Amortization expense		11,134,000	15,387,000	8,627,000
Asset impairment charge related to goodwill			65,400,000
Asset impairment charge related to goodwill, net of tax			53,000,000
Debt issuance costs			4,854,000
Post-Business Separation credit facility, maximum					370,000,000
Advertising expense		1,100,000	900,000	500,000
Pension benefit vesting period, years		5 years
Number of highest consecutive years of compensation subject to certain reductions		5 years
Maximum retirement age reached to be subject to reductions, years		65 years
Contribution vesting period		2 years
Future charges for equity-based compensation, 2013		2,100,000
Future charges for equity-based compensation, 2014		2,100,000
Future charges for equity-based compensation, 2015		1,200,000
Future charges for equity-based compensation, 2016		100,000
Future charges for equity-based compensation, 2017		100,000
Broadband Services Project Due 2015 [Member]
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Total project cost				16,100,000
Percentage funded by federal government grants				50.00%
Federal government grants				8,000,000
Percentage of deposits				100.00%
Portion of grants deposited into pledged account				8,000,000
First Portion Match [Member]
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Employer's percentage match of employee's match percentage		100.00%
Percentage of employee's gross pay that is matched by the employer		1.00%
Second Portion Match [Member]
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Employer's percentage match of employee's match percentage		50.00%
Percentage of employee's gross pay that is matched by the employer		5.00%
Acquisition-related Costs [Member]
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Corporate expenses				$ 2,800,000

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Stockholders' Equity (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Stockholders' Equity [Abstract]
Cash dividend declaration, date	Feb. 27, 2013
Cash dividends declared, per share	$ 0.14	$ 0.56	$ 0.14
Dividend paid to stock holders, date	Apr. 11, 2013
Dividend recorded, date	Mar. 13, 2013
Excluded from computation of diluted earnings per common share		1,546,900	416,417

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Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information (Reconciliation Of Operating Income (Loss) To Adjusted EBITDA) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011		Dec. 31, 2010
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating income	$ 41,196		$ (36,373)		$ 41,129
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations	39,008		43,206		31,376
Sub-total:	80,204		6,833		72,505
Amortization of actuarial losses	1,781
Asset impairment charge			86,295
Equity-based compensation expense	3,912		2,383		1,529
Employee separation charges	2,346	[1]
Business separation charges			1,358	[2]
Acquisition related costs			71	[3]	3,020	[3]
Restructuring charges	2,981	[4]
Gain on settlements, net	(2,335)	[5]
Adjusted EBITDA	88,889	[6]	96,940	[6]	77,054	[6]
Competitive Wireline [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating income	25,257		29,955		16,208
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations	26,439		29,579		17,272
Sub-total:	51,696		59,534		33,480
Amortization of actuarial losses	1,336
Equity-based compensation expense	2,895		1,474		816
Employee separation charges	1,759	[1]
Business separation charges			1,019	[2]
Acquisition related costs			71	[3]	3,020	[3]
Restructuring charges	1,784	[4]
Gain on settlements, net	(1,752)	[5]
Adjusted EBITDA	57,718	[6]	62,098	[6]	37,316	[6]
RLEC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating income	15,939		(66,328)		24,921
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset retirement obligations	12,569		13,627		14,104
Sub-total:	28,508		(52,701)		39,025
Amortization of actuarial losses	445
Asset impairment charge			86,295
Equity-based compensation expense	1,017		909		713
Employee separation charges	587	[1]
Business separation charges			339	[2]
Restructuring charges	1,197	[4]
Gain on settlements, net	(583)	[5]
Adjusted EBITDA	$ 31,171	[6]	$ 34,842	[6]	$ 39,738	[6]

[1] Employee separation charges include employee separation benefits which were provided for in the separation agreements of two executive officers who left the Company in April and December 2012. These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the condensed consolidated statement of operations

[2] Business Separation charges include audit, legal and other professional fees incurred during the period related to the Company’s separation from NTELOS Holdings Corp. into a separate publicly traded company (Note 1). These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the statement of operations.

[3] Acquisition related charges include legal and other professional fees incurred during 2010 and 2011 related to the Company’s acquisition of the FiberNet business from One Communications Corp., which closed on December 1, 2010.

[4] In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans. Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

[5] The net pre-tax gain on settlements was recognized in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (Note 13).

[6] The Company evaluates performance based upon Adjusted EBITDA, defined by the Company as net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, other income or expenses, equity based compensation charges, acquisition related charges, amortization of actuarial losses on retirement plans, employee separation charges, restructuring related charges, gain or loss on settlements and gain or loss on interest rate derivatives.

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Schedule Of Expected Future Benefit Payments) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012
Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
2013	$ 2,665
2014	2,696
2015	2,785
2016	2,937
2017	3,009
2018-2022	15,855
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
2013	553
2014	544
2015	533
2016	555
2017	583
2018-2022	$ 3,159

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Stockholders' Equity (Schedule Of Computation Of Basic And Diluted Earnings Per Share) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Stockholders' Equity [Abstract]
Income applicable to common shares for earnings-per-share computation	$ 16,340	$ (43,930)	$ 20,824
Total shares outstanding	21,498	21,170
Less: unvested shares	(342)	(352)
Less: effect of calculating weighted average shares	(198)	(3)
Denominator for basic earnings per common share - weighted average shares outstanding	20,958	20,815
Plus: weighted average unvested shares	434
Plus: common stock equivalents of stock options outstanding	15
Denominator for diluted earnings per common share - weighted average shares outstanding	21,407	20,815

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Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information (Narrative) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of segments	2
Network Route-Miles	5,800
Verizon [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage to total revenue	10.00%	9.00%	12.00%

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Stock Plans (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Stock Plans [Abstract]

Schedule Of Valuation Assumptions

	Year Ended December 31, 2012	November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011
Risk-free interest rate	1.40%	1.55%
Expected volatility	43.42%	34.70%
Expected dividend yield	5.77%	3.10%
Expected term	7 years	7 years

Summary Of Stock Options Activity

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Shares	Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share		Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term	Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Stock options outstanding at January 1, 2011	-	$	-
Converted options issued by the Company on the
October 31, 2011 Business Separation date (1)	1,464		14.58
Granted subsequent to the Business Separation	21		15.48
Forfeited subsequent to the Business Separation	(137)		14.67
Outstanding at December 31, 2011	1,348	$	14.58	7.8 years	$	1,022
Granted during the period	863		9.79
Exercised during the period	-		-
Forfeited during the period	(287)		13.95
Expired during the period	(210)		14.78
Outstanding at December 31, 2012	1,714	$	12.29	7.6 years	$	1,002
Exercisable at December 31, 2012	725	$	13.97	5.8 years	$	230
Total outstanding, vested and expected to vest
at December 31, 2012	1,576	$	12.53		$	849

(1) Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS stock options for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 1,463,819 Company stock options based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation.  The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation.  These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

Summary Of Restricted Stock Awards Activity

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Shares		Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share
Restricted stock outstanding at January 1, 2011	-	$	-
Converted restricted stock issued by the Company on the
October 31, 2011 Business Separation date (1)	410		14.46
Granted subsequent to the Business Separation	7		15.20
Forfeited subsequent to the Business Separation	(65)		14.54
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2011	352	$	14.46
Granted during the period	313		10.16
Vested during the period	(215)		12.91
Forfeited during the period	(108)		13.92
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2012	342	$	11.67

⁽¹⁾ Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS restricted stock awards for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 409,690 Company restricted stock awards based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation.  The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation.  These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

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Restructuring Charges (Summary Of Restructuring Liability Balance) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]
Additions	$ 2,981
Payments	(290)
Ending balance at December 31, 2012	2,691
Employee Severance [Member]
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]
Additions	2,387
Ending balance at December 31, 2012	2,387
Lease Termination Costs [Member]
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]
Additions	594
Payments	(290)
Ending balance at December 31, 2012	$ 304

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Stock Plans (Schedule Of Valuation Assumptions) (Details)	2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012
Stock Plans [Abstract]
Risk-free interest rate	1.55%	1.40%
Expected volatility	34.70%	43.42%
Expected dividend yield	3.10%	5.77%
Expected term	7 years	7 years

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Schedule II - Valuation And Qualifying Accounts (Details) (Allowance for Doubtful Accounts [Member], USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts [Member]
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Disclosure [Line Items]
Balance at Beginning of Year	$ 2,822	$ 2,117	$ 1,153
Charged to Expense	523	316	266
Charged to Other Accounts	368	821	1,203
Deductions	(1,891)	(432)	(505)
Balance at End of Year	$ 1,822	$ 2,822	$ 2,117

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Restructuring Charges (Narrative) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012
Restructuring Charges [Abstract]
Restructuring charges	$ 2,981	[1]
Employee severance and termination benefits	2,387
Lease termination costs	594
Restructuring reserve	$ 2,691

[1] In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans. Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

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Schedule II - Valuation And Qualifying Accounts

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract]

Schedule II - Valuation And Qualifying Accounts

Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

Lumos Networks Corp.

			Additions
(In thousands) Description	Balance at Beginning of Year		Charged to Expense		Charged to Other Accounts		Deductions		Balance at End of Year
Year Ended December 31, 2012:
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	2,822	$	523	$	368	$	(1,891)	$	1,822
Year Ended December 31, 2011:
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	2,117	$	316	$	821	$	(432)	$	2,822
Year Ended December 31, 2010:
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$	1,153	$	266	$	1,203	$	(505)	$	2,117

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Long-Term Debt (Schedule Of Long-Term Debt) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Long-Term Debt [Abstract]
Credit facility	$ 311,022	$ 324,500
Capital lease obligations	1,203	2,076
Debt and capital lease obligations, Total	312,225	326,576
Less: current portion of long-term debt	7,900	2,679
Long-term debt	$ 304,325	$ 323,897

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Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of Future Amortization Expense) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
2013	$ 9,824
2014	9,187
2015	4,807
2016	2,575
2017	2,256
Customer Intangible [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
2013	9,665
2014	9,028
2015	4,648
2016	2,416
2017	2,097
Trademarks [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
2013	159
2014	159
2015	159
2016	159
2017	$ 159

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Related Party Transactions (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	10 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2010 Acquisition-related Costs [Member]	Dec. 31, 2011 Ntelos Holdings [Member]	Dec. 31, 2010 Ntelos Holdings [Member]
Related party interest expense	$ 9.5	$ 4.9
General and administrative expenses from related party	7.3	8.0
Corporate expenses	2.6	5.1	2.8
Contribution expense previously unallocated amounts from parent				$ 2.4	$ 1.5

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Organization (Details) (USD $) In Millions, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012 customer mi	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 01, 2010
Organization [Abstract]
Reverse stock split, description			1-for-2
Reverse stock split, ratio			0.5
Common stock, par value	$ 0.01	$ 0.01	$ 0.01
Net cash consideration from acquisition				$ 162.5
Number of customers		30,000
Network route-miles		5,800
Funding of acquisition from term loan	125	125
Cash paid to NTELOS Inc. associated with the Business Separation			315
Amount of purchase price put into escrow	0.2	0.2	5.0
Sale of assets, total price	1.0
Cash recevied from sale of business	$ 0.8

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Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information (Supplementary Disclosures Of Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information [Abstract]
Interest (net of amounts capitalized)	$ 11,972	$ 2,261	$ 29
Income taxes	1,892	87	263
Additions to property and equipment included in accounts payable and other accrued liabilities	6,621	2,900	2,492
Borrowings under capital leases	380	990	498
Dividend paid through increase in borrowings from NTELOS Inc.		14,145	29,240
Dividend declared not paid	$ 3,013	$ 2,980

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Schedule Of Net Periodic Benefit Cost) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012
Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Service cost	$ 312	$ 2,043
Interest cost	451	2,698
Expected return on plan assets	(571)	(3,517)
Amortization of loss	197	1,481
Net periodic benefit cost	389	2,705
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Service cost	12	78
Interest cost	91	525
Net periodic benefit cost	$ 103	$ 603

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Income Taxes (Schedule Of Components Of Income Tax Expense (Benefit)) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Income Taxes [Abstract]
Current tax expense, Federal			$ 8,515
Current tax expense, State	496	3,727	2,499
Total current tax expense	496	3,727	11,014
Deferred tax expense (benefit), Federal	8,982	(3,657)	3,275
Deferred tax expense (benefit), State	1,532	(4,453)	188
Total deferred tax expense (benefit)	10,514	(8,110)	3,463
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$ 11,010	$ (4,383)	$ 14,477

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Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information (Summarized Financial Information Of Reportable Segments) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011		Dec. 31, 2010
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenues	$ 206,871		$ 207,414		$ 145,964
Depreciation and amortization	38,884		43,090		31,365
Operating income	41,196		(36,373)		41,129
Adjusted EBITDA	88,889	[1]	96,940	[1]	77,054	[1]
Capital expenditures	59,881		61,536		40,254
Goodwill	100,297		100,297		133,735
Total assets	513,162		498,600
Competitive Wireline [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenues	157,720		154,397		88,471
Intersegment revenues	967	[2]	644	[2]	1,036	[2]
Depreciation and amortization	26,341		29,487		17,263
Operating income	25,257		29,955		16,208
Adjusted EBITDA	57,718	[1]	62,098	[1]	37,316	[1]
Capital expenditures	52,582		45,720		27,950
Goodwill	100,297		100,297
Total assets	402,249		355,979
RLEC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Operating revenues	49,151		53,017		57,493
Intersegment revenues	4,862	[2]	4,632	[2]	4,254	[2]
Depreciation and amortization	12,543		13,603		14,102
Operating income	15,939		(66,328)		24,921
Adjusted EBITDA	31,171	[1]	34,842	[1]	39,738	[1]
Capital expenditures	7,299		15,816		12,304
Total assets	110,913		142,621
Eliminations [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Intersegment revenues	$ (5,829)	[2]	$ (5,276)	[2]	$ (5,290)	[2]

[1] The Company evaluates performance based upon Adjusted EBITDA, defined by the Company as net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, other income or expenses, equity based compensation charges, acquisition related charges, amortization of actuarial losses on retirement plans, employee separation charges, restructuring related charges, gain or loss on settlements and gain or loss on interest rate derivatives.

[2] Intersegment revenues consist primarily of telecommunications services such as local exchange services, inter-city and local transport voice and data services, and leasing of various network elements. Intersegment revenues are primarily recorded at tariff and prevailing market rates.

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Consolidated Statements Of Equity (USD $) In Thousands	Common Stock [Member]	Treasury Stock [Member]	Additional Paid-In Capital [Member]	Accumulated Deficit [Member]	Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss [Member]	Business Equity [Member]	Total Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders' Equity [Member]	Non-Controlling Interests [Member]	Total
Balance, at Dec. 31, 2009						$ 272,681	$ 272,681	$ 273	$ 272,954
Net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.						20,824	20,824		20,824
Equity-based compensation expense						1,529	1,529		1,529
Dividends paid to NTELOS Communications Inc.						(29,240)	(29,240)		(29,240)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests								119	119
Balance, at Dec. 31, 2010						265,794	265,794	392	266,186
Allocation of beginning of year business equity in connection with the Business Separation			262,155	3,639		(265,794)
Spin-off from NTELOS Holdings Corp.	212		(138,107)		(14,113)		(152,008)		(152,008)
Spin-off from NTELOS Holdings Corp., shares	21,223
Net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.				(43,930)			(43,930)		(43,930)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax					(2,727)		(2,727)		(2,727)
Equity-based compensation expense			1,694				1,694		1,694
Restricted shares issued, shares issued through the employee stock purchase plan and 401(k) matching contributions and stock options exercised		65	685				685		685
Restricted shares issued, shares issued through the employee stock purchase plan and 401(k) matching contributions and stock options exercised, shares	12
Cash dividends declared				(2,980)			(2,980)		(2,980)
Dividends paid to NTELOS Communications Inc.				(14,145)			(14,145)		(14,145)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests								52	52
Balance, at Dec. 31, 2011	212		126,427	(57,416)	(16,840)		52,383	444	52,827
Balance, shares at Dec. 31, 2011	21,235	65							21,235
Spin-off from NTELOS Holdings Corp.			(1,337)				(1,337)		(1,337)
Net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.				16,340			16,340		16,340
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax					4,164		4,164		4,164
Equity-based compensation expense			3,065				3,065		3,065
Adjustments to excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation			428				428		428
Restricted shares issued, shares issued through the employee stock purchase plan and 401(k) matching contributions and stock options exercised	4		987				991		991
Restricted shares issued, shares issued through the employee stock purchase plan and 401(k) matching contributions and stock options exercised, shares	375	47
Cash dividends declared				(11,984)			(11,984)		(11,984)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests								108	108
Balance, at Dec. 31, 2012	$ 216		$ 129,570	$ (53,060)	$ (12,676)		$ 64,050	$ 552	$ 64,602
Balance, shares at Dec. 31, 2012	21,610	112							21,610

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Income Taxes (Schedule Of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Income Taxes [Abstract]
Computed tax expense (benefit) at statutory federal rate of 35%	$ 9,610	$ (16,891)	$ 12,397
Nondeductible goodwill impairment charge		11,703
Nondeductible compensation	91	637	378
Noncontrolling interests	(37)	18	(42)
State income taxes (benefits), net of federal income tax benefit (expense)	1,318	(472)	1,746
Other	28	622	(2)
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$ 11,010	$ (4,383)	$ 14,477
Statutory federal rate	35.00%	35.00%	35.00%

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Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of Goodwill Activity) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Significant Accounting Policies[Abstract]
Gross Goodwill	$ 133,735	$ 133,735	$ 133,735
Accumulated Impairment Loss	(33,438)	(33,438)
Net Goodwill	$ 100,297	$ 100,297	$ 133,735

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Long-Term Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Long-Term Debt [Abstract]

Schedule Of Long-Term Debt

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Credit facility	$	311,022	$	324,500
Capital lease obligations		1,203		2,076
		312,225		326,576
Less: current portion of long-term debt		7,900		2,679
	$	304,325	$	323,897

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Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information [Abstract]

Summarized Financial Information Of Reportable Segments

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations		Total
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2012
Operating revenues	$	157,720	$	49,151	$	-	$	206,871
Intersegment revenues (1)		967		4,862		(5,829)		-
Depreciation and amortization		26,341		12,543		-		38,884
Operating income		25,257		15,939		-		41,196
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		57,718		31,171		-		88,889
Capital expenditures		52,582		7,299		-		59,881
Goodwill		100,297		-		-		100,297
Total assets	$	402,249	$	110,913	$	-	$	513,162

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations		Total
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2011
Operating revenues	$	154,397	$	53,017	$	-	$	207,414
Intersegment revenues (1)		644		4,632		(5,276)		-
Depreciation and amortization		29,487		13,603		-		43,090
Operating income (loss)		29,955		(66,328)		-		(36,373)
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		62,098		34,842		-		96,940
Capital expenditures		45,720		15,816		-		61,536
Goodwill		100,297		-		-		100,297
Total assets	$	355,979	$	142,621	$	-	$	498,600

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(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2010
Operating revenues	$	88,471	$	57,493	$	-	$	145,964
Intersegment revenues (1)		1,036		4,254		(5,290)		-
Depreciation and amortization		17,263		14,102		-		31,365
Operating income		16,208		24,921		-		41,129
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		37,316		39,738		-		77,054
Capital expenditures	$	27,950	$	12,304	$	-	$	40,254

⁽¹⁾ Intersegment revenues consist primarily of telecommunications services such as local exchange services, inter-city and local transport voice and data services, and leasing of various network elements.  Intersegment revenues are primarily recorded at tariff and prevailing market rates.

⁽²⁾ The Company evaluates performance based upon Adjusted EBITDA, defined by the Company as net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, other income or expenses, equity based compensation charges, acquisition related charges, amortization of actuarial losses on retirement plans, employee separation charges, restructuring related charges, gain or loss on settlements and gain or loss on interest rate derivatives.

Reconciliation Of Operating Income (Loss) To Adjusted EBITDA

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2012
Operating income	$	25,257	$	15,939	$	41,196
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset
retirement obligations		26,439		12,569		39,008
Sub-total:		51,696		28,508		80,204
Amortization of actuarial losses		1,336		445		1,781
Equity based compensation		2,895		1,017		3,912
Employee separation charges (1)		1,759		587		2,346
Restructuring charges (2)		1,784		1,197		2,981
Gain on settlements, net (3)		(1,752)		(583)		(2,335)
Adjusted EBITDA	$	57,718	$	31,171	$	88,889

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2011
Operating income (loss)	$	29,955	$	(66,328)	$	(36,373)
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset
retirement obligations		29,579		13,627		43,206
Sub-total:		59,534		(52,701)		6,833
Asset impairment charges		-		86,295		86,295
Equity based compensation		1,474		909		2,383
Business separation charges (4)		1,019		339		1,358
Acquisition related charges (5)		71		-		71
Adjusted EBITDA	$	62,098	$	34,842	$	96,940

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2010
Operating Income	$	16,208	$	24,921	$	41,129
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset
retirement obligations		17,272		14,104		31,376
Sub-total:		33,480		39,025		72,505
Equity based compensation		816		713		1,529
Acquisition related charges (5)		3,020		-		3,020
Adjusted EBITDA	$	37,316	$	39,738	$	77,054

⁽¹⁾ Employee separation charges include employee separation benefits which were provided for in the separation agreements of two executive officers who left the Company in April and December 2012.  These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

⁽²⁾ In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans.  Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

⁽³⁾ The net pre-tax gain on settlements was recognized in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (Note 13).

⁽⁴⁾ Business Separation charges include audit, legal and other professional fees incurred during the period related to the Company’s separation from NTELOS Holdings Corp. into a separate publicly traded company (Note 1).  These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the statement of operations.

Acquisition related charges include legal and other professional fees incurred during 2010 and 2011 related to the Company’s acquisition of the FiberNet business from One Communications Corp., which closed on December 1, 2010.

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Stock Plans (Narrative) (Details) (USD $) In Millions, except Share data, unless otherwise specified	2 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011		Dec. 31, 2012
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Converted options issued, Shares	1,463,819	[1]
Converted restricted stock issued, Shares	409,690	[2]
Number of shares issued during the period	21,000		863,004
Number restricted shares issued during the period	7,000		313,703
Stock options to be granted, minimum exercise price as a percentage of grant date fair value			100.00%
Stock options grants, maximum life, in years			10 years
Weighted-average grant date fair value per share of stock options granted	$ 3.95		$ 2.34
Total fair value of options vested	$ 0.1		$ 1.1
Unrecognized compensation cost			1.6
Unrecognized compensation cost recognition period, in years			3 years 7 months 6 days
Shares available for employee stock purchase plan			100,000
Shares price percentage			85.00%
Shares issued under the employee stock purchase plan	719		12,957
Compensation expense associated with employee stock purchase plan			0.1
Restricted Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation cost			$ 2.3
Unrecognized compensation cost recognition period, in years			2 years 3 months 18 days
Equity And Cash Incentive Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Maximum number of shares of common stock available for awards			4,000,000
Securities remained available for issuance			1,475,441
Stock plan vesting description			The options issued under the Employee Equity and Cash Incentive Plan generally vest one-fourth annually beginning one year after the grant date for employees and generally cliff vest on the first anniversary of the grant date for non-employee directors.

[1] Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS stock options for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 1,463,819 Company stock options based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation. The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation. These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced

[2] Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS restricted stock awards for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 409,690 Company restricted stock awards based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation. The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation. These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

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Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of Changes In Asset Retirement Obligations) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Significant Accounting Policies[Abstract]
Asset retirement obligations, beginning	$ 1,114	$ 1,070
Additional asset retirement obligations recorded, net of adjustments in estimates	(2)	(72)
Accretion of asset retirement obligations	124	116	11
Asset retirement obligations, ending	$ 1,236	$ 1,114	$ 1,070

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Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information [Abstract]

Supplementary Disclosures Of Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cash payments for:
Interest (net of amounts capitalized)	$	11,972	$	2,261	$	29
Income taxes		1,892		87		263
Supplemental investing and financing
activities:
Additions to property and equipment
included in accounts payable and
other accrued liabilities		6,621		2,900		2,492
Borrowings under capital leases		380		990		498
Dividends paid through increase in
borrowings from NTELOS Inc.		-		14,145		29,240
Dividend declared not paid	$	3,013	$	2,980	$	-

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Financial Instruments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Financial Instruments [Abstract]

Schedule Of Difference Between Face Amount, Carrying Amount And Fair Value Of Financial Instruments

(In thousands)	Face Amount			Carrying Amount		Fair Value
December 31, 2012
Financial assets:
Cash	$	2		$	2	$	2
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value		N/A			462		N/A
Financial liabilities:
Senior credit facility		311,022			311,022		320,739
Capital lease obligations		1,203			1,203		1,203
Derivatives related to debt:
Interest rate swap liability		153,750	*		1,871		1,871
December 31, 2011
Financial assets :
Cash	$	10,547		$	10,547	$	10,547
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value		N/A			128		N/A
Financial liabilities:
Senior credit facility		324,500			324,500		324,500
Capital lease obligations	$	2,076		$	2,076	$	2,076

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Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows (Parenthetical) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2010
Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows [Abstract]
Purchase of FiberNet, cash acquired	$ 221
Purchase of FiberNet, working capital and other adjustments	$ 6,440

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Stockholders' Equity (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Stockholders' Equity [Abstract]

Schedule Of Computation Of Basic And Diluted Earnings Per Share

(In thousands)	2012		Pro Forma 2011 (Unaudited)
Numerator:
Income (loss) applicable to common shares for earnings-per-share
computation	$	16,340	$	(43,930)
Denominator:
Total shares outstanding		21,498		21,170
Less:  unvested shares		(342)		(352)
Less:  effect of calculating weighted average shares		(198)		(3)
Denominator for basic earnings per common share - weighted
average shares outstanding		20,958		20,815
Plus:  weighted average unvested shares		434		-
Plus:  common stock equivalents of stock options outstanding		15		-
Denominator for diluted earnings per common share – weighted
average shares outstanding		21,407		20,815

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Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of Asset Impairment Charges) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Total impairment	$ 20,857
Property, Plant And Equipment [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Total impairment	16,032
Customer Intangible [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Total impairment	4,661
Trademarks [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Total impairment	$ 164

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Financial Instruments (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Capital lease obligations	$ 1,203		$ 2,076
Face Amount [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Cash	2		10,547
Senior credit facility	311,022		324,500
Capital lease obligations	1,203		2,076
Carrying Amount [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Cash	2		10,547
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value	462		128
Senior credit facility	311,022		324,500
Capital lease obligations	1,203		2,076
Fair Value [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Cash	2		10,547
Senior credit facility	320,739		324,500
Capital lease obligations	1,203		2,076
CoBank [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value	400
Interest Rate Swap [Member] | Face Amount [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Notional amount of interest rate swap liability	153,750	[1]
Interest Rate Swap [Member] | Carrying Amount [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Interest rate swap liability	1,871
Interest Rate Swap [Member] | Fair Value [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Interest rate swap liability	$ 1,871

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Restructuring Charges (Schedule Of Restructuring Costs By Business Segments) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]
Employee severance and termination benefits	$ 2,387
Lease termination costs	594
Total restructuring charges	2,981	[1]
Competitive Wireline [Member]
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]
Employee severance and termination benefits	1,426
Lease termination costs	358
Total restructuring charges	1,784	[1]
RLEC [Member]
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items]
Employee severance and termination benefits	961
Lease termination costs	236
Total restructuring charges	$ 1,197	[1]

[1] In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans. Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

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Consolidated Balance Sheets (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Current Assets
Cash	$ 2	$ 10,547
Restricted cash	5,303	7,554
Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $1,822 ($2,822 in 2011)	22,676	23,555
Other receivables	2,400	2,390
Income tax receivable	954
Prepaid expenses and other	5,136	2,278
Total Current Assets	36,471	46,324
Securities and Investments	462	128
Property, Plant and Equipment
Land and buildings	19,489	22,833
Network plant and equipment	419,176	365,101
Furniture, fixtures and other equipment	22,070	13,069
Total in service	460,735	401,003
Under construction	19,764	18,200
Property, plant and equipment, gross	480,499	419,203
Less accumulated depreciation	143,910	119,245
Total Property, Plant and Equipment, net	336,589	299,958
Other Assets
Goodwill	100,297	100,297
Other intangibles, less accumulated amortization of $72,876 ($61,742 in 2011)	34,895	45,696
Deferred charges and other assets	4,448	6,197
Total Other Assets	139,640	152,190
Total Assets	513,162	498,600
Current Liabilities
Current portion of long-term debt	7,900	2,679
Accounts payable	17,453	12,432
Dividends payable	3,013	2,980
Advance billings and customer deposits	13,527	12,623
Accrued compensation	1,742	2,832
Accrued operating taxes	3,838	2,624
Other accrued liabilities	6,284	3,262
Total Current Liabilities	53,757	39,432
Long-term Liabilities
Long-term debt	304,325	323,897
Retirement benefits	30,413	35,728
Deferred income taxes	55,956	41,204
Other long-term liabilities	3,500	5,028
Income tax payable	609	484
Total Long-term Liabilities	394,803	406,341
Commitments and Contingencies
Equity
Preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, authorized 100 shares, none issued
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share, authorized 55,000 shares; 21,610 shares issued and 21,498 shares outstanding (21,235 shares issued and 21,170 shares outstanding in 2011)	216	212
Additional paid in capital	129,570	126,427
Treasury stock, 112 shares at cost (65 shares in 2011)
Accumulated deficit	(53,060)	(57,416)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(12,676)	(16,840)
Total Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders' Equity	64,050	52,383
Noncontrolling Interests	552	444
Total Equity	64,602	52,827
Total Liabilities and Equity	$ 513,162	$ 498,600

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Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of Equity-Based Compensation Expense) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Equity-based compensation expense	$ 3,912	$ 2,383	$ 1,529
Cost Of Sales And Services [Member]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Equity-based compensation expense	645	314	230
Customer Operations [Member]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Equity-based compensation expense	712	419	297
Corporate Operations [Member]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Equity-based compensation expense	$ 2,555	$ 1,650	$ 1,002

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Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Parenthetical) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract]
Deferred income tax (asset) liability, Net unrecognized gain (loss) from defined benefit plans	$ 1,958	$ (1,813)	$ 0
Deferred income tax asset, Reclassification adjustment for amortization of unrealized loss from defined benefit plans	$ 693	$ 77	$ 0

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Stock Plans (Summary Of Restricted Stock Awards Activity) (Details) (USD $)	2 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011		Dec. 31, 2012
Stock Plans [Abstract]
Restricted stock outstanding at January 1, Shares			352,000
Restricted stock outstanding at January 1, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share			$ 14.46
Converted restricted stock issued, Shares	409,690	[1]
Converted restricted stock, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share	$ 14.46	[1]
Granted during the period, Shares	7,000		313,703
Granted during the period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share	$ 15.20		$ 10.16
Vested during the period, Shares			(215,000)
Vested during the period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share			$ 12.91
Forfeited during the period, Shares	(65,000)		(108,000)
Forfeited during the period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share	$ 14.54		$ 13.92
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, Shares	352,000		342,000
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share	$ 14.46		$ 11.67

[1] Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS restricted stock awards for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 409,690 Company restricted stock awards based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation. The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation. These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits [Abstract]

Schedule Of Defined Benefit Plan Disclosures

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
(In thousands)	Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011		Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Change in benefit obligations:
Benefit obligations, beginning of period	$	64,061	$	60,181	$	12,511	$	12,157
Service cost		2,043		312		78		12
Interest cost		2,698		451		525		91
Actuarial loss		5,942		3,528		201		318
Benefits paid, net		(2,475)		(411)		(441)		(67)
Curtailment gain		(8,519)		-		-		-
Transfer		761		-		-		-
Benefit obligations, end of period		64,511		64,061		12,874		12,511
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of period		45,109		45,531		-		-
Actual return on plan assets		6,610		(11)		-		-
Employer contributions		2,000		-		441		67
Benefits paid		(2,492)		(411)		(441)		(67)
Transfer		448		-		-		-
Fair value of plan assets, end of period		51,675		45,109		-		-
Funded status:
Total liability, end of period	$	12,836	$	18,952	$	12,874	$	12,511

Schedule Of Net Periodic Benefit Cost

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
(In thousands)	Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011		Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Components of net periodic benefit cost:
Service cost	$	2,043	$	312	$	78	$	12
Interest cost		2,698		451		525		91
Expected return on plan assets		(3,517)		(571)		-		-
Amortization of loss		1,481		197		-		-
Net periodic benefit cost	$	2,705	$	389	$	603	$	103

Schedule Of Assumptions Used

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
	December 31, 2012		December 31, 2011		December 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Discount rate	3.85	%	4.30	%	3.85	%	4.30	%
Rate of compensation increase	3.00	%	3.00	%	N/A		N/A

The assumptions used in the measurements of the Company’s net cost for the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 and for the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 are:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
	Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011		Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Discount rate	4.30	%	4.60	%	4.30	%	4.60	%
Expected return on plan assets	7.75	%	7.75	%	N/A		N/A
Rate of compensation increase	3.00	%	3.00	%	N/A		N/A

Schedule Of Plan Asset Allocation

(Dollars in thousands)	December 31, 2012				December 31, 2011
Asset Category	Actual Allocation		Fair Value		Actual Allocation		Fair Value
Large Cap Value	32	%	$	16,395	34	%	$	15,088
Large Cap Blend	16	%		8,169	17	%		7,536
Mid Cap Blend	6	%		3,149	6	%		2,846
Small Cap Blend	4	%		2,134	4	%		1,896
Foreign Stock - Large Cap	7	%		3,696	7	%		3,040
Bond	32	%		16,405	29	%		13,281
Cash and cash equivalents	3	%		1,727	3	%		1,422
Total	100	%	$	51,675	100	%	$	45,109

The actual and target allocation for plan assets is broadly defined and measured as follows:

	December 31, 2012				December 31, 2011
Asset Category	Actual Allocation		Target Allocation		Actual Allocation
Equity securities	65	%	65	%	67	%
Bond securities and cash equivalents	35	%	35	%	33	%
Total	100	%	100	%	100	%

Schedule Of Expected Future Benefit Payments

(In thousands) Year	Defined Benefit Pension Plan		Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
2013	$	2,665	$	553
2014		2,696		544
2015		2,785		533
2016		2,937		555
2017		3,009		583
2018-2022	$	15,855	$	3,159

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended			2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended		2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended		2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2011 Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]	Dec. 31, 2012 Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]	Oct. 31, 2011 Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]	Dec. 31, 2011 Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]	Dec. 31, 2012 Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]	Oct. 31, 2011 Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]	Dec. 31, 2011 Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan [Member]	Dec. 31, 2012 Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan [Member]	Dec. 31, 2011 Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan [Member]	Dec. 31, 2012 Other Nonqualified Defined Benefit Pension Plans [Member]	Dec. 31, 2011 Other Nonqualified Defined Benefit Pension Plans [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Total expense recognized for all pension and OPEBs plans	$ 2,200,000	$ 2,800,000	$ 2,400,000
Accumulated benefit obligation	64,500,000	56,500,000								2,500,000		2,500,000
Projected amount to be paid in 2013	900,000
Unrecognized actuarial loss				4,100,000	2,900,000		300,000	200,000
Curtailment gain					(8,519,000)						200,000
Amount of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in AOCI				14,400,000	10,300,000		800,000	900,000		1,600,000	1,500,000	1,600,000
Deferred tax asset from unrecognized actuarial loss				9,200,000	6,500,000		500,000	600,000		1,000,000	1,000,000	1,000,000
Assumed health care cost trend rate for 2013	7.00%
Ultimate health care cost trend rate	5.00%
Year that rate reaches the ultimate trend rate	2017
Effect of 1% increase on service and interest cost components	100,000
Effect of 1% increase on accumulated benefit obligation	1,900,000
Effect of 1% decrease on service and interest cost components	100,000
Effect of 1% decrease on accumulated benefit obligation	1,600,000
Employer contributions					2,000,000		67,000	441,000
Expected net periodic benefit cost					600,000			600,000
Expected loss in other comprehensive income expected to be recognized as a component of net period benefit cost					900,000
Unrealized loss transfered												1,000,000
Benefit obligation				64,061,000	64,511,000	60,181,000	12,511,000	12,874,000	12,157,000	4,300,000	4,800,000	4,300,000	500,000	900,000
Amortization of unrealized loss from defined benefit plans, net of $520 of deferred income taxes	1,088,000	120,000								200,000	300,000
Expected future benefit payments, 2013					2,665,000			553,000			300,000		200,000
Expected future benefit payments, 2014					2,696,000			544,000			300,000		100,000
Expected future benefit payments, 2015					2,785,000			533,000			300,000
Expected future benefit payments, 2016					2,937,000			555,000			300,000
Expected future benefit payments, 2017					3,009,000			583,000			300,000
Expected future benefit payments, 2018-2022					15,855,000			3,159,000			1,300,000
Company matching contribution for a defined contribution plan	$ 800,000	$ 700,000	$ 500,000

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Restructuring Charges

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Restructuring Charges [Abstract]

Restructuring Charges

Note 12. Restructuring Charges

In December 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan (the “Plan”), which involved closing or consolidating certain of its facilities, reducing its workforce and freezing benefits under both its defined benefit pension plan and its executive supplemental retirement plan.

The Company recognized a total of $3.0 million in restructuring costs related to these initiatives, including severance and separation costs of $2.4 million and lease termination costs of $0.6 million.  The Plan was substantially completed as of December 31, 2012.  Accordingly, the Company does not expect to incur additional costs associated with the plan in future periods.  The following table provides a break-down of these costs by business segment for the year ended December 31, 2012:

	2012
(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
Employee severance and termination benefits	$	1,426	$	961	$	2,387
Lease termination costs		358		236		594
Total restructuring charges	$	1,784	$	1,197	$	2,981

A liability for restructuring charges in the amount of $2.7 million is included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2012, related to employee termination costs and lease termination costs accrued but not yet paid.  Below is a summary of the restructuring liability balance as of December 31, 2012:

(In thousands)	Employee Severance and Termination Benefits		Lease Termination Costs		Total
Beginning balance at December 31, 2011	$	-	$	-	$	-
Additions		2,387		594		2,981
Payments		-		(290)		(290)
Ending balance at December 31, 2012	$	2,387	$	304	$	2,691

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Restructuring Charges (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Restructuring Charges [Abstract]

Schedule Of Restructuring Costs By Business Segments

	2012
(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
Employee severance and termination benefits	$	1,426	$	961	$	2,387
Lease termination costs		358		236		594
Total restructuring charges	$	1,784	$	1,197	$	2,981

Summary Of Restructuring Liability Balance

(In thousands)	Employee Severance and Termination Benefits		Lease Termination Costs		Total
Beginning balance at December 31, 2011	$	-	$	-	$	-
Additions		2,387		594		2,981
Payments		-		(290)		(290)
Ending balance at December 31, 2012	$	2,387	$	304	$	2,691

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Related Party Transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

Note 14.  Related Party Transactions

Prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, NTELOS Inc. provided a variety of administrative services to Lumos Networks.  Costs of these services were allocated or charged to the Company based on either the actual costs incurred or NTELOS Inc.’s estimate of expenses relative to the services provided to other subsidiaries of NTELOS Inc.  The Company believes that these allocations were made on a reasonable basis, and that receiving these services from NTELOS Inc. created cost efficiencies.  Lumos Networks management believes that all historical costs of operations have been reflected in the consolidated statements of operations for each period presented, but these costs do not reflect the amount of actual costs the Company would have incurred had it been an independent, publicly traded company prior to October 31, 2011.  These services and transactions included the following:

· Cash management and other treasury services;

· Administrative services such as legal, regulatory, tax, employee benefit administration, internal audit, purchasing, accounting, information technology and human resources;

· Network monitoring;

· Executive oversight;

· Equity-based compensation plan administration; and

· Insurance coverage.

The amount of interest expense charged to the Company from NTELOS for borrowings accumulated through shared banking and treasury services for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 and for the year ended December 31, 2010 was $9.5 million and $4.9 million, which is included in interest expense on the consolidated statements of operations for those periods.

Total general and administrative expenses allocated to the Company were $7.3 million and $8.0 million included in its consolidated statements of operations for the period January 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 and for the year ended December 31, 2010, respectively, inclusive of certain corporate expenses which were not previously allocated to the segments (Note 2).Additionally, $2.8 million of acquisition related costs were allocated to the Company in 2010.

Total equity-based compensation expense related to all of the share-based awards granted to employees of Lumos Networks and allocated from NTELOS Inc. and NTELOS Inc.’s 401(k) matching contributions for employees of Lumos Networks totaled $2.4 million and $1.5 million for the years ended December 31,2011 and 2010, respectively.

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Schedule Of Assumptions Used) (Details)	2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012
Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Benefit obligation assumption, Discount rate	4.30%	3.85%
Benefit obligation assumption, Rate of compensation increase	3.00%	3.00%
Net periodic benefit cost assumption, Discount rate	4.60%	4.30%
Net periodic benefit cost assumption, Expected return on plan assets	7.75%	7.75%
Net periodic benefit cost assumption, Rate of compensation increase	3.00%	3.00%
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Benefit obligation assumption, Discount rate	4.30%	3.85%
Net periodic benefit cost assumption, Discount rate	4.60%	4.30%

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Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income (loss)	$ 16,448,000	$ (43,878,000)	$ 20,943,000
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation	27,750,000	27,703,000	22,738,000
Amortization	11,134,000	15,387,000	8,627,000
Accretion of asset retirement obligations	124,000	116,000	11,000
Asset impairment charge		86,295,000
Deferred income taxes	10,514,000	(8,110,000)	3,463,000
Loss on interest rate swap derivatives	1,898,000
Equity-based compensation expense	3,912,000	2,383,000	1,529,000
Amortization of loan origination costs	812,000	132,000
Gain on settlement	(3,035,000)
Retirement benefits, net of contributions and distributions	665,000	(4,059,000)	(2,156,000)
Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation	(428,000)
Changes in assets and liabilities from operations:
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable	218,000	(2,082,000)	1,175,000
(Increase) decrease in other current assets	(3,503,000)	297,000	(320,000)
Changes in income taxes	99,000	3,727,000	593,000
Increase in accounts payable	1,946,000	425,000	901,000
Increase in other current liabilities	3,661,000	4,572,000	1,473,000
Net cash provided by operating activities	72,215,000	82,908,000	58,977,000
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of property, plant and equipment	(59,881,000)	(61,536,000)	(40,254,000)
Broadband network expansion funded by stimulus grant	(1,351,000)	(2,248,000)	(692,000)
Proceeds from disposal of managed services business	750,000
Purchase of FiberNet, net of cash acquired of $221 and working capital and other adjustments of $6,440			(162,283,000)
Change in restricted cash	2,251,000	508,000	(8,062,000)
Cash reimbursement received from broadband stimulus grant	2,251,000	508,000
Purchase of tradename asset	(333,000)
Other	(26,000)
Net cash used in investing activities	(56,339,000)	(62,768,000)	(211,291,000)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt		310,000,000
Proceeds from issuance of revolving credit facility		30,000,000
Payment of debt issuance costs		(4,854,000)
Cash paid to NTELOS Inc. associated with the Business Separation		(315,000,000)
Payments on senior secured term loans	(2,000,000)	(500,000)
Payments on revolving credit facility	(11,478,000)	(15,000,000)
Cash dividends paid on common stock	(11,951,000)
(Payment to) borrowings from NTELOS Inc., net		(14,357,000)	153,106,000
Payments under capital lease obligations	(1,542,000)	(317,000)	(306,000)
Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan	122,000
Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation	428,000
Other		(54,000)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities	(26,421,000)	(10,082,000)	152,800,000
(Decrease) increase in cash	(10,545,000)	10,058,000	486,000
Cash:
Beginning of period	10,547,000	489,000	3,000
End of period	$ 2,000	$ 10,547,000	$ 489,000

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Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical) (USD $) In Thousands, except Share data, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Consolidated Balance Sheets [Abstract]
Accounts receivable, allowance	$ 1,822	$ 2,822
Other intangibles, accumulated amortization	$ 72,876	$ 61,742
Preferred stock, par value	$ 0.01	$ 0.01
Preferred stock, shares authorized	100,000	100,000
Preferred stock, shares issued	0	0
Common stock, par value	$ 0.01	$ 0.01
Common stock, shares authorized	55,000,000	55,000,000
Common stock, shares issued	21,610,000	21,235,000
Common stock, shares outstanding	21,498,000	21,170,000
Treasury stock, shares	112,000	65,000

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Financial Instruments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Financial Instruments [Abstract]

Financial Instruments

Note 7.  Financial Instruments

The Company is exposed to market risks with respect to certain of the financial instruments that it holds. Cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are reflected in the consolidated financial statements at cost which approximates fair value because of the short-term maturity of these instruments.  The fair value of the senior credit facility was estimated based on an analysis of the forward-looking interest rates as of December 31, 2012, compared to the forward looking interest rates at inception, assuming no change in the credit profile of the Company or market demand for similar instruments.  The Company’s valuation technique for this instrument is considered to be a level three fair value measurement within the fair value hierarchy described in FASB ASC 820.  The fair values of the derivative instruments (Note 5) were derived based on quoted trading prices obtained from the administrative agents as of December 31, 2012.  The Company’s valuation technique for these instruments is considered to be level two fair value measurements within the fair value hierarchy described in FASB ASC 820.  The fair values of other financial instruments,if applicable, are based on quoted market prices or discounted cash flows based on current market conditions.

The following table indicates the difference between face amount, carrying amount and fair value of the Company’s financial instruments at December 31, 2012 and 2011. 

(In thousands)	Face Amount			Carrying Amount		Fair Value
December 31, 2012
Financial assets:
Cash	$	2		$	2	$	2
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value		N/A			462		N/A
Financial liabilities:
Senior credit facility		311,022			311,022		320,739
Capital lease obligations		1,203			1,203		1,203
Derivatives related to debt:
Interest rate swap liability		153,750	*		1,871		1,871
December 31, 2011
Financial assets :
Cash	$	10,547		$	10,547	$	10,547
Long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value		N/A			128		N/A
Financial liabilities:
Senior credit facility		324,500			324,500		324,500
Capital lease obligations	$	2,076		$	2,076	$	2,076

*notional amount

Of the long-term investments for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value in the table above, $0.4million as of December 31, 2012 represents the Company’s investment in CoBank.  This investment is primarily related to patronage distributions of restricted equity and is a required investment related to the portion of the credit facility loan held by CoBank.  This investment is carried under the cost method.

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Document And Entity Information (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Mar. 01, 2013	Jun. 30, 2012
Document And Entity Information [Abstract]
Document Type	10-K
Amendment Flag	false
Document Period End Date	Dec. 31, 2012
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2012
Document Fiscal Period Focus	FY
Entity Registrant Name	Lumos Networks Corp.
Entity Central Index Key	0001520744
Trading Symbol	LMOS
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Entity Filer Category	Accelerated Filer
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		21,553,947
Entity Well-known Seasoned Issuer	No
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Voluntary Filers	No
Entity Public Float			$ 144,687,102

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Stockholders' Equity

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Stockholders' Equity [Abstract]

Stockholders' Equity

Note 8.  Stockholders’ Equity

On February 27, 2013, the Company’s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock in the amount of $0.14 per share, which is to be paid on April 11, 2013 to stockholders of record on March 13, 2013.

Prior to the Business Separation, the Company did not have any common stock outstanding.  As such, basic loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2011 is computed on a pro forma basis by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the two month post-Business Separation period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011, as if such shares had been outstanding for the entire year.  Diluted loss per share is calculated in a similar manner, but includes the dilutive effect of actual stock options and restricted shares outstanding as of December 31, 2011.  Since these securities are anti-dilutive, they are excluded from the calculation of loss per share at December 31, 2011. 

The computations of basic and diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2012 and the unaudited computation of pro forma basic and diluted loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2011 are as follows: 

(In thousands)	2012		Pro Forma 2011 (Unaudited)
Numerator:
Income (loss) applicable to common shares for earnings-per-share
computation	$	16,340	$	(43,930)
Denominator:
Total shares outstanding		21,498		21,170
Less:  unvested shares		(342)		(352)
Less:  effect of calculating weighted average shares		(198)		(3)
Denominator for basic earnings per common share - weighted
average shares outstanding		20,958		20,815
Plus:  weighted average unvested shares		434		-
Plus:  common stock equivalents of stock options outstanding		15		-
Denominator for diluted earnings per common share – weighted
average shares outstanding		21,407		20,815

For the year ended December 31, 2012, the denominator for diluted earnings per common share excludes 1,546,900 shares related to stock options which would be antidilutive for the period.  For the year ended December 31, 2011, the denominator for diluted loss per common share is equal to the denominator for basic loss per common share because the addition of unvested shares or other common stock equivalents would be anti-dilutive (416,417 at December 31, 2011).

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Consolidated Statements Of Operations (USD $) In Thousands, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Consolidated Statements Of Operations [Abstract]
Operating Revenues	$ 206,871		$ 207,414	$ 145,964
Operating Expenses
Cost of sales and services (exclusive of items shown separately below)	80,520		78,484	46,407
Customer operations	21,886		19,551	13,243
Corporate operations	23,615		16,251	13,809
Depreciation and amortization	38,884		43,090	31,365
Asset impairment charge			86,295
Accretion of asset retirement obligations	124		116	11
Restructuring charges	2,981	[1]
Gain on settlements, net	(2,335)	[2]
Total Operating Expenses, net	165,675		243,787	104,835
Operating Income (Loss)	41,196		(36,373)	41,129
Other Income (Expenses)
Interest expense	(11,921)		(11,993)	(5,752)
Loss on interest rate derivatives	(1,898)
Other income, net	81		105	43
Total Other Expenses, net	(13,738)		(11,888)	(5,709)
Income (Loss) Before Income Tax Expense	27,458		(48,261)	35,420
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)	11,010		(4,383)	14,477
Net Income (Loss)	16,448		(43,878)	20,943
Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests	(108)		(52)	(119)
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$ 16,340		$ (43,930)	$ 20,824
Basic and Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. Stockholders:
Earnings (loss) per share-basic	$ 0.78		$ (2.11)
Earnings (loss) per share-diluted	$ 0.76		$ (2.11)
Weighted average shares outstanding - basic	20,958		20,815
Weighted average shares outstanding - diluted	21,407		20,815
Cash Dividends Declared per Share - Common Stock	$ 0.56		$ 0.14

[1] In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans. Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

[2] The net pre-tax gain on settlements was recognized in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (Note 13).

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Relationship With NTELOS

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Relationship With NTELOS [Abstract]

Relationship With NTELOS

Note 2.  Relationship with NTELOS

In connection with the Business Separation, the Company entered into a series of agreements with NTELOS which are intended to govern the relationship between the Company and NTELOS going forward.  These agreements include commercial service agreements, a separation and distribution agreement, an employee matters agreement, a tax matters agreement, intellectual property agreements and a transition services agreement.  During the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, the net expense to the Company related to the transition services agreement was $1.5 million and $0.4 million, respectively.  See Note 14 regarding related party transactions with NTELOS.

Under the tax matters agreement entered into between NTELOS and the Company, the Company is generally required to indemnify NTELOS against any tax resulting from the Distribution to the extent that such tax resulted from any of the following events (among others): (1) an acquisition of all or a portion of our stock or assets, whether by merger or otherwise, (2) any negotiations, understandings, agreements or arrangements with respect to transactions or events that cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a 50% or greater interest in Lumos Networks, (3) certain other actions or failures to act by the Company, or (4) any breach by the Company of certain of its representations or undertakings.  The Company’s indemnification obligations to NTELOS and its subsidiaries, officers and directors are not limited by any maximum amount. 

Pursuant to the separation and distribution agreement and certain other agreements with NTELOS, NTELOS agreed to indemnify the Company from certain liabilities, and the Company agreed to indemnify NTELOS for certain liabilities.

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Organization

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Organization [Abstract]

Organization

Note 1.  Organization

Lumos Networks is a fiber-based network service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region witha network of long-haul fiber, metro Ethernet and Ethernet rings located primarily in Virginia and West Virginia, and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. We serve carrier, business and residential customers over our fiber network offering data, voice and IP services.  Our principal products and services include metro Ethernet, which provides Ethernet connectivity among multiple locations in the same city or region over our fiber optic network, high-capacity private line and wavelength services, which provide a means to efficiently utilize fiber in broadband applications and provide high-capacity bandwidth, IP services and business and residential telephone local and long-distance services. 

On October 14, 2011,  NTELOS Holdings Corp. (“NTELOS”) announced a distribution date of October 31, 2011 for the spin-off of all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Lumos Networks, which operated NTELOS’swireline operations (the “Business Separation”).  Prior to and in connection with the Business Separation, following the market close on October 31, 2011, NTELOS effectuated a 1-for-2 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of its shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value.  The spin-off of Lumos Networks was in the form of a tax-free stock distribution to NTELOS stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 24, 2011, the record date (the “Distribution”).   On October 31, 2011, NTELOS distributed one share of Lumos Networks common stock for every share of NTELOS’scommon stock outstanding, on a post-Reverse Stock Split basis.

On December 1, 2010, the Company acquired from One Communications Corp. (“OCC”) all of the membership interest of Mountaineer Telecommunication, LLC (hereinafter referred to as “FiberNet”) for net cash consideration at closing of $162.5 million.  FiberNet is a facility-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (“CLEC”) headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia.  FiberNet offers voice, data, and IP-based services in West Virginia and portions of Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky and had approximately 30,000 customer accounts as of the acquisition date and has an extensive fiber network.  The FiberNet network provides enhancements that add diversity and capacity to the Company’s combined network of approximately 5,800 route-miles and the increased density provides immediate access to more enterprise customers in new tier two and tier three markets.  NTELOS Inc. funded the acquisition through a combination of a $125 million incremental term loan under its existing senior secured credit facility and cash on hand.  The $162.5 million net cash outlay for this purchase transaction was funded by Lumos Networks through an increase to its intercompany obligation with NTELOS Inc., which obligation was settled on October 31, 2011 through the aforementioned $315 million cash payment to NTELOS.  Under the terms of the purchase agreement, $5.0 million of the purchase price was put in escrow.  All outstanding matter related to the acquisition have been settled between the parties and escrow funds released as of December 31, 2012.  The Company finalized its acquisition accounting related to the purchase of FiberNet and recorded necessary purchase accounting adjustments prior to December 1, 2011.

In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company sold the assets comprising the former managed services business of FiberNet to an unrelated third-party for a total purchase price of $1.0 million, $0.8 million of which was received in cash upon consummation of the sale and the remaining $0.2 million was placed in escrow in accordance with the terms of the agreement.

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Commitments And Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Commitments And Contingencies [Abstract]

Commitments And Contingencies

Note 13.  Commitments and Contingencies

Operating Leases

Rental expense for all operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $3.5 million, $3.8 million and $2.2 million, respectively.  The total amount committed under these lease agreements at December 31, 2012 is:  $1.0 million in 2013, $0.8 million in 2014, $0.7 million in 2015, $0.6 million in 2016, $0.6 million in 2017 and $1.7 million for the years thereafter.

Other Commitments and Contingencies

The Company periodically makes claims or receives disputes and is involved in legal actions related to billings to other carriers for access to the Company’s network.  The Company does not recognize revenue related to such matters until collection of the claims is reasonably assured.  In addition to this, the Company periodically disputes access charges that are assessed by other companies with which the Company interconnects and is involved in other disputes and legal and tax proceedings and filings arising from normal business activities. 

In September 2012, the Company settled an outstanding lawsuit related to access billings for a one-time payment of $3.0 million.  The Company also settled all of its outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition that closed in December 2010.  In connection with this, the Company recognized a $5.3 million pre-tax gain resulting from the transfer of a $3.0 million liability back to the seller and the seller agreeing to pay the Company $2.3 million.  These settlements, which total $2.3 million in the aggregate, are recorded as “gain on settlements, net” on the consolidated statements of operations.

In addition to the lawsuit related to the access billings discussed above, the Company settled other access dispute billings to another carrier for $5.6 million, of which $4.7 million was reserved in 2011.  The total impact from these settlements was a $1.5 million charge to revenue and a $1.0 million charge to operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2012.

In February 2013, the Company received notice of a dispute from a carrier regarding billings for access services.  Although the outcome of the dispute is difficult to determine at this early stage, the Company intends to vigorously contest and defend its position and believes that the possibility of an unfavorable outcome is remote.  As such, no amounts have been recorded in the consolidated financial statements related to this dispute.

In October 2012, the Company was named as the defendant in a patent infringement case alleging that the Company’s communications networks, systems and components infringe three patents held by GlobeTecTrust LLC, the plaintiff.  The amount of the claim has not been determined and the Company does not have sufficient information to assess the risk, if any, of an unfavorable outcome.

In addition to the matters described above, the Company is involved in routine litigation and disputes in the ordinary course of its business.  While the results of litigation and disputes are inherently unpredictable, management does not expect that the ultimate costs to resolve these matters will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows, and believes that adequate provision for any probable and estimable losses has been made in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

The Company has other purchase commitments relating to capital expenditures totaling $6.6 million as of December 31, 2012, which are expected to be satisfied during 2013.

In connection with the Business Separation, the Company entered into a series of agreements with NTELOS which are intended to govern the relationship between the Company and NTELOS going forward (Note 2), and within such agreements, the companies are required to indemnify each other regarding certain matters.

Specifically, under the tax matters agreement entered into between NTELOS and the Company,  the Companyis generally required to indemnify NTELOS against any tax resulting from the Distribution to the extent that such tax resulted from any of the following events (among others): (1) an acquisition of all or a portion of our stock or assets, whether by merger or otherwise, (2) any negotiations, understandings, agreements or arrangements with respect to transactions or events that cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more persons acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a 50% or greater interest in Lumos Networks, (3) certain other actions or failures to act by the Company, or (4) any breach by the Company of certain of its representations or undertakings.  The Company’s indemnification obligations to NTELOS and its subsidiaries, officers and directors are not limited by any maximum amount.

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Stock Plans

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Stock Plans [Abstract]

Stock Plans

Note 9.  Stock Plans

The Company has an Equity and Cash Incentive Plan administered by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s board of directors, which permits the grant of long-term incentives to employees and non-employee directors, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, incentive awards, other stock-based awards and dividend equivalents.  The maximum number of shares of common stock available for awards under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan is 4,000,000.  As of December 31, 2012, 1,475,441 securities remained available for issuance under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan.  Upon the exercise of stock options or upon the grant of restricted stock under the Equity and CashIncentive Plan, new common shares are issued.

The Company issued 863,004 stock options and 313,703 shares of restricted stock under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan during the year ended December 31, 2012.  The options issued under the Employee Equity and Cash Incentive Plan generally vest one-fourth annually beginning one year after the grant date for employees and generally cliff vest on the first anniversary of the grant date for non-employee directors.The restricted shares generally cliff vest on the third anniversary of the grant date for employees and generally cliff vest on the first anniversary of the grant date for non-employee directors.  Dividend rights applicable to restricted stock are equivalent to the Company’s common stock.

Stock options must be granted under the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan at not less than 100% of fair value on the date of grant and have a maximum life of ten years from the date of grant.  Options and other awards under the Equity and CashIncentive Plan may be exercised in compliance with such requirements as determined by a committee of the board of directors.  All options outstanding were issued at a strike price equal to or greater than the fair value on the date of grant. 

The fair value of each optionaward is estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and the assumptions noted in the table below.The risk-free rate is based on the zero-coupon U.S. Treasury rate in effect at the time of grant, with a term equal to the expected life of the options.  The Company uses peer group and other publicly available market data to estimate volatility assumptions as the Company was not publicly traded until November 2011 and does not have an adequate trading history to estimate its actual volatility.  The expected option life represents the period of time that the options granted are expected to be outstanding. The expected dividend yield is estimated based on the Company’sexpected dividend yields at the date of the grant.

The weighted-average grant date fair value per share of stock options granted during the year ended December 31, 2012 was $2.34.  The weighted-average grant date fair value per share of stock options granted subsequent to the Business Separation through December 31, 2011 was $3.95.  The following weighted-average assumptions were used in estimating the grant date fair value of these awards:

	Year Ended December 31, 2012	November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011
Risk-free interest rate	1.40%	1.55%
Expected volatility	43.42%	34.70%
Expected dividend yield	5.77%	3.10%
Expected term	7 years	7 years

The summary of the activity and status of the Company’s stock options for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, is as follows:

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Shares	Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share		Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term	Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Stock options outstanding at January 1, 2011	-	$	-
Converted options issued by the Company on the
October 31, 2011 Business Separation date (1)	1,464		14.58
Granted subsequent to the Business Separation	21		15.48
Forfeited subsequent to the Business Separation	(137)		14.67
Outstanding at December 31, 2011	1,348	$	14.58	7.8 years	$	1,022
Granted during the period	863		9.79
Exercised during the period	-		-
Forfeited during the period	(287)		13.95
Expired during the period	(210)		14.78
Outstanding at December 31, 2012	1,714	$	12.29	7.6 years	$	1,002
Exercisable at December 31, 2012	725	$	13.97	5.8 years	$	230
Total outstanding, vested and expected to vest
at December 31, 2012	1,576	$	12.53		$	849

(1) Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS stock options for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 1,463,819 Company stock options based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation.  The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation.  These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

No options were exercised during the year ended December 31, 2012 or during the period subsequent to the Business Separation through December 31, 2011.  The total fair value of options that vested during the year ended December 31, 2012 was $1.1 million. The total fair value of options that vested subsequent to the Business Separation through December 31, 2011 was $0.1 million.  As of December 31, 2012, there was $1.6 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.6 years.

The summary of the activity and status of the Company’s restricted stock for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, is as follows:

(In thousands, except per share amounts)	Shares		Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share
Restricted stock outstanding at January 1, 2011	-	$	-
Converted restricted stock issued by the Company on the
October 31, 2011 Business Separation date (1)	410		14.46
Granted subsequent to the Business Separation	7		15.20
Forfeited subsequent to the Business Separation	(65)		14.54
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2011	352	$	14.46
Granted during the period	313		10.16
Vested during the period	(215)		12.91
Forfeited during the period	(108)		13.92
Restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2012	342	$	11.67

⁽¹⁾ Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS restricted stock awards for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 409,690 Company restricted stock awards based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation.  The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation.  These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced.

As of December 31, 2012, there was $2.3 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested restricted stock awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.3 years.  The fair value of the restricted stock is equal to the market value of common stock on the date of grant.

In addition to the Equity and Cash Incentive Plan discussed above, the Company has an employee stock purchase plan which commenced in November 2011 with 100,000 shares available.  New common shares will be issued for purchases under this plan.  Shares are priced at 85% of the closing price on the last trading day of the month and settle on the second business day of the following month.  During the year ended December 31, 2012, 12,957 shares were issued under the employee stock purchase plan.  During the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011,  719 shares were issued under the employee stock purchase plan.  Compensation expense associated with the employee stock purchase plan was less than $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2012.  Compensation expense associated with the employee stock purchase plan was not material in the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.

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Long-Term Debt

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Long-Term Debt [Abstract]

Long-Term Debt

Note 5.  Long-Term Debt

As of December 31, 2012and 2011, the Company’s outstanding long-term debt consisted of the following: 

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Credit facility	$	311,022	$	324,500
Capital lease obligations		1,203		2,076
		312,225		326,576
Less: current portion of long-term debt		7,900		2,679
	$	304,325	$	323,897

Credit Facility

On September 8, 2011, Lumos Networks Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lumos Networks,entered into a $370 million post-Business Separation credit facility (the “Credit Facility”).  Funding under the Credit Facility occurred uponthe effective date of the Business Separation, which was October 31, 2011.The Credit Facility consists of a $60 million senior secured five year revolving credit facility (the “Revolver”), $3.5 million of which wasoutstanding as of December 31, 2012; a $110 million senior secured five year amortizing term loan (the “Term Loan A”); and a $200 million senior secured sixyear amortizing term loan (the “Term Loan B”). The proceeds of the Credit Facility were made available to Lumos Networks OperatingCompany on the effective date of the Business Separationand were used to fund a working capital cash reserve at Lumos Networks and to pay $315million to NTELOS Inc.(i) to settle with cash the intercompany debt owed to NTELOS as of the Business Separation date($177.1 million) and, with the balance, (ii) to fund a mandatory repayment on NTELOS’s credit facility resulting from the Business Separation.Pricing of the Lumos Networks Operating Company credit facility is LIBOR plus 3.25% forthe Revolver and the Term Loan A and LIBOR plus 3.50% for the Term Loan B. The Credit Facility does not require a minimum LIBOR rate.The Credit Facility is secured by a first priority pledge of substantially all property and assets of Lumos NetworksOperating Company and all material subsidiaries, as guarantors, excluding the RLECs.

The Credit Facility includes various restrictions and conditions, including covenants relating to leverage and interest coverage ratio requirements.  At December 31, 2012, Lumos Networks’ leverage ratio (as defined under the credit agreement) was 3.50:1.00 and its interest coverage ratio was 8.00:1.00.  The Credit Facility requires that the leverage ratio not exceed 4.00:1.00 through September 30, 2014 (and 3.75:1.00 thereafter) and the interest coverage ratio not be less than 3.25:1:00.  The Credit Facility also sets a maximum distributable amount that limits restricted payments, including the payment of dividends.  The initial distributable amount was set at $5 million at the date of funding and, on January 1, 2012, the distributable amount was increased by $12 million.  For each year thereafter the amount will be increased by the greater of $12 million or 75% of free cash flow (as defined under the credit agreement).  Based on the excess cash flow calculation for the year ended December 31, 2012, the distributable amount was increased by $12 million on January 1, 2013.  The distributable amount is reduced by any restricted payments including dividend payments.  The distributable amount as of December 31, 2012 was $5.1 million. 

Under the terms of the Credit Facility, the Company was required to enter into an interest rate hedge for three years on 50% of the term loans outstanding early in the first quarter of 2012.  In February 2012, the Company entered into a 3% interest rate cap through December 31, 2012 and a delayed interest rate swap agreement from December 31, 2012 through December 31, 2015 whereby the Company swaps three-month LIBOR with a fixed rate of approximately 0.8%.  The Company recognized a $1.9 million loss on derivative instruments as a result of changes in the fair value of the interest rate swap during the year ended December 31, 2012.

In connection with entering into the Credit Facility, the Company has deferred $4.9 million in debt issuance costs which are being amortized to interest expense over the life of the debt using the effective interest method.  Amortization of these costs for the year ended December 31, 2012 was $0.8 million.

The Company receives patronage credits from CoBank and certain other of the Farm Credit System lending institutions (collectively referred to as “patronage banks”) which are not reflected in the interest rates above.  The patronage banks hold a portion of the credit facility and are cooperative banks that are required to distribute their profits to their members.  Patronage credits are calculated based on the patronage banks’ ownership percentage of the credit facility and are received by the Company as either a cash distribution or as equity in the patronage banks.  The current patronage credit percentages are 65% in cash and 35% in equity.  These credits are recorded in the consolidated statement of operations as an offset to interest expense.  The Patronage credits for the year ended December 31, 2012 were $1.0 million.

The aggregate maturities of the Term Loan A and Term Loan B are $7.5 million per year in 2013 and 2014, $13.0 million in 2015, $90.0 million in 2016, $189.5 million in 2017.  The revolver is payable in full in 2016.

The Company’s blended average interest rate on its long-term debt for the year ended December 31, 2012 was 3.79%.

Capital lease obligations

In addition to the long-term debt discussed above, the Company has entered into capital leases on vehicles with original lease terms of four to five years.  In addition, the Company had $0.6 million of capital leases on telephony equipment assumed in a prior acquisition, which were paid in full in the fourth quarter of 2012 in connection with a sale of the related assets.At December 31, 2012, the carrying value and accumulated depreciation of these assets was $2.5 million and $1.4 million, respectively.   As of December 31, 2012, the total net present value of the Company’s future minimum lease payments was $1.2million.  As of December 31, 2012, the principal portion of these capital lease obligations was due as follows:  $0.4 million in 2013, $0.3 million in 2014, $0.3 million in 2015, $0.2 million in 2016 and less than $0.1 million thereafter.

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Income Taxes (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)	2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012
Income Taxes [Abstract]
Adjustments to excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation		$ 428,000
Tax benefit recorded in AOCI	1,800,000	2,700,000
Unused net operating losses		10,900,000
Net operating losses carryforwards from business separation		3,900,000
NOL expiration range		2023 through 2031
Deferred tax asset from actuarial losses	$ 9,000,000

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Significant Accounting Policies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Significant Accounting Policies[Abstract]

Significant Accounting Policies

Note 3.  Significant Accounting Policies

Accounting Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods.  Actual results could differ from those estimates.  Additionally, the financial information for 2011 and 2010 included herein may not necessarily reflect the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows in the future or what the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows would have been had Lumos Networks been an independent, publicly traded company prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, Lumos Networks Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and all of Lumos Networks Operating Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries and those limited liability corporations where Lumos Networks Operating Company or certain of its subsidiaries, as managing member, exercised control.  All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

For all periods prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, the consolidated financial statements principally represent the financial results reflected by NTELOS constituting the companies comprising the Competitive and RLEC wireline segments.  These financial results as of and for the periods prior to the date of the Business Separation have been adjusted to reflect certain corporate expenses which were not previously allocated to the segments.  These allocations primarily represent corporate support functions, including but not limited to accounting, human resources, information technology and executive management, as well as corporate legal and professional fees, including audit fees, and equity-based compensation expense related to equity-based awards granted to employees in corporate support functions and executive management.  These additional expenses for the ten months ended October 31, 2011 were $2.6 million and for the year ended December 31, 2010 were $5.1 million (inclusive of $2.8 million of acquisition-related costs).  The Company believes that these costs would not have been materially different had they been calculated on a standalone basis.  However, such costs are not indicative of the actual level of expense and exclude certain expenses that would have been incurred by the Company if it had operated as an independent, publicly traded company nor are they comparable to the expenses incurred in 2012.

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenue when services are rendered or when products are delivered, installed and functional, as applicable.  Certain services of the Company require payment in advance of service performance.  In such cases, the Company records a service liability at the time of billing and subsequently recognizes revenue ratably over the service period. The Company bills customers certain transactional taxes on service revenues.  These transactional taxes are not included in reported revenues as they are recognized as liabilities at the time customers are billed.

The Company earns revenue by providing services through access to and usage of its networks.  Local service revenues are recognized as services are provided.  Carrier data revenues are earned by providing switched access and other switched and dedicated services, including wireless roamer management, to other carriers.  Revenues for equipment sales are recognized at the point of sale. 

The Company periodically makes claims for recovery of access charges on certain minutes of use terminated by the Company on behalf of other carriers. The Company recognizes revenue in the period when it is determined that the amounts can be estimated and collection is reasonably assured.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers its investment in all highly liquid debt instruments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.  The Company places its temporary cash investments with high credit quality financial institutions with a maturity date of not greater than 90 days from acquisition and all are investments held by commercial banks.  At times, such investments may be in excess of the FDIC insurance limit. At December 31, 2012 and 2011,  the Company did not have any cash equivalents. 

As of December 31, 2012, all of the Company’s cash was held in non-interest bearing deposit accounts.  Total interest income related to cash was negligible for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010.

The Company utilizes a zero balance arrangement for its master cash account against a swingline facility that the Company has with its primary commercial bank.  As of December 31, 2012, the Company reclassified its book overdraft related to this master cash account of $1.8 million to Accounts Payable on the consolidated balance sheet.  The Company has classified this overdraft in cash flows from operating activities on the consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2012.

Restricted Cash

During 2010, the Company received a federal broadband stimulus award to bring broadband services and infrastructure to Alleghany County, Virginia.  The total project is $16.1 million, of which 50% (approximately $8 million) is being funded by a grant from the federal government.  The project is expected to be completed before September 30, 2015.  The Company was required to deposit 100% of its portion for the grant (approximately $8 million) into a pledged account in advance of any reimbursements, which can be drawn down ratably following the grant reimbursement approvals which are contingent on adherence to the program requirements.  The Company received $2.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2012 and $0.5 million in 2011 for the reimbursable portion of the qualified recoverable expenditures to date.  The Company hasa  $1.5 million receivable for the reimbursable portion of the qualified recoverable expenditures through December 31, 2012.  At  December 31, 2012, the Company’spledged account balance was  $5.3 million.  This escrow account is a non-interest bearing account with the Company’sprimary commercial bank. 

Trade Accounts Receivable

The Company sells its services to commercial and residential end-users and to other communication carriers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia and portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.  The Company has credit and collection policies to maximize collection of trade receivables and requires deposits on certain sales.  The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts based on historical results, current and expected trends and changes in credit policies.  Management believes the allowance adequately covers all anticipated losses with respect to trade receivables.  Actual credit losses could differ from such estimates. The Company includes bad debt expense in customer operations expense in the consolidated statements of operations.  Bad debt expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $0.6 million, $1.0 million and $0.3 million, respectively.  The Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts was $1.8 million and $2.8 million as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Property, Plant and Equipment and Other Long-Lived Assets (Excluding Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets)

Property, plant and equipment, finite-lived intangible assets and long-term deferred charges are recorded at cost and are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount should be evaluated pursuant to the subsequent measurement guidance described in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 360-10-35.  Impairment is determined by comparing the carrying value of these long-lived assets to management’s best estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the assets.  If the carrying value exceeds the estimated undiscounted cash flows, the excess of the asset’s carrying value over the estimated fair value is recorded as an impairment charge.

In 2011, the Company determined that the fair value of the RLEC segment assets, including property, plant and equipment and finite-lived intangible assets, was lower than the carrying value as a result of the revaluation of assets performed in connection with the Business Separation as of October 31, 2011.  An impairment charge was recorded for $20.9 million ($12.7 million net of tax), which is included in the line item “asset impairment charges” on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011.  The allocation of the impairment charge was as follows:

(In thousands)	2011
Property, plant and equipment	$	16,032
Customer intangible		4,661
Trademark		164
Total impairment	$	20,857

The Company believes that no impairment indicators exist as of December 31, 2012 that would require it to perform impairment testing for long-lived assets, including property, plant and equipment, long-term deferred charges and finite-lived intangible assets to be held and used.

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment is calculated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which the Company reviews and updates based on historical experiences and future expectations.  At December 31, 2012, the Company revised the useful lives of certain leasehold improvements as a result of the termination of a building lease.  The Company recognized accelerated depreciation costs of $1.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 as a result of this change in estimate.

Intangibles with a finite life are classified as other intangibles on the consolidated balance sheets.  At December 31, 2012and 2011, other intangibles were comprised of the following: 

		2012				2011
(Dollars in thousands)	Estimated Life	Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization		Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization
Customer relationships	3 to 15 yrs	$	103,153	$	(69,734)	$	103,153	$	(59,286)
Trademarks	0.5 to 15 yrs		3,518		(2,042)		3,186		(1,884)
Non-compete agreement	2 yrs		1,100		(1,100)		1,100		(572)
Total		$	107,771	$	(72,876)	$	107,439	$	(61,742)

The Company amortizes its finite-lived intangible assets using the straight-line method unless it determines that another systematic method is more appropriate.  The amortization for certain customer relationship intangibles is being recognized using an accelerated amortization method based on the pattern of estimated earnings from these assets.

The estimated life of amortizable intangible assets is determined from the unique factors specific to each asset and the Company reviews and updates estimated lives based on current events and future expectations. The Company capitalizes costs incurred to renew or extend the term of a recognized intangible asset and amortizes such costs over the remaining life of the asset. No such costs were incurred during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 or 2010.  Amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $11.1 million, $15.4 million and $8.6 million, respectively.

Amortization expense for the next five years is expected to be as follows:

(In thousands)	Customer Relationships		Trademarks		Total
2013	$	9,665	$	159	$	9,824
2014		9,028		159		9,187
2015		4,648		159		4,807
2016		2,416		159		2,575
2017		2,097		159		2,256

Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets

Goodwill and franchise rights are considered to be indefinite-lived intangible assets.  Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not subject to amortization but are instead tested for impairment annually or more frequently if an event indicates that the asset might be impaired.  The Company policy is to assess the recoverability of indefinite-lived assets annually on October 1 and whenever adverse events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may have occurred.

The Company uses a two-step process to test for goodwill impairment.  Step one requires a determination of the fair value of each of the reporting units and, to the extent that the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value (including goodwill), the step two calculation of implied fair value of goodwill is not required and no impairment loss is recognized.In testing for goodwill impairment, the Company utilizes a combination of a discounted cash flow model and an analysis which allocates enterprise value to the reporting units. 

In 2011, based on its ASC 360-10-35 testing, the Company determined that both the goodwill and the franchise rights for the RLEC segment were fully impaired.  As a result, the Company recorded a $65.4 million asset impairment charge ($53.0 million after tax), which is included in the line item “asset impairment charges” on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012.  The Company determined that there was no impairment of the Competitive segment goodwill in 2011 as the fair value of the reporting unit substantially exceeded its carrying value.

In 2012, the Company adopted FASB Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350):  Testing Goodwill for Impairment, which permits an entity to take a qualitative approach to determining whether it is more likely than not that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount before applying the two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test promulgated by FASB ASC Topic 350.  After a preliminary assessment of quantitative factors the Company elected not to use this option for our 2012 testing and applied the two-step quantitative process as described above.  Based on the results of this annual impairment testing performed as of October 1, 2012, the Company determined that the fair value of the Competitive segment reporting unit substantially exceeds its carrying amount and that no impairment exists.

The following table presents the activity in goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. 

	2012						2011
(In thousands)	Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss		Net Goodwill		Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss		Net Goodwill
Beginning balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	-	$	133,735
Impairment of goodwill in the RLEC segment		-		-		-		-		(33,438)		(33,438)
Ending balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297

Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations

An asset retirement obligation is evaluated and recorded as appropriate on assets for which the Company has a legal obligation to retire.  The Company records a liability for an asset retirement obligation and the associated asset retirement cost at the time the underlying asset is acquired.  Subsequent to the initial measurement of the asset retirement obligation, the obligation is adjusted at the end of each period to reflect the passage of time and changes in the estimated future cash flows underlying the obligation. 

The Company enters into various facility co-location agreements and is subject to locality franchise ordinances.  The Company constructs assets at these locations and, in accordance with the terms of many of these agreements, the Company is obligated to restore the premises to their original condition at the conclusion of the agreements, generally at the demand of the other party to these agreements.  The Company recognizes the fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation and capitalizes that cost as part of the cost basis of the related asset, depreciating it over the useful life of the related asset.

Included in certain of the franchise ordinances under which the RLECs and CLECs operate are clauses that require the removal of the RLEC’s and CLEC’s equipment at the termination of the franchise agreement.  The Company has not recognized an asset retirement obligation for these liabilitiesas the removal of the equipment is not estimable due to an indeterminable end dateand the fact that the equipment is part of the public switched telephone network and it is not reasonable to assume the jurisdictions would require its removal.

The following table indicates the changes to the Company’s asset retirement obligation liability, which is included in other long-term liabilities, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Asset retirement obligations, beginning	$	1,114	$	1,070
Additional asset retirement obligations recorded, net of
adjustments in estimates		(2)		(72)
Accretion of asset retirement obligations		124		116
Asset retirement obligations, ending	$	1,236	$	1,114

Deferred Financing Costs

The Company incurred and paid $4.9 million of issuance costs related to the $370 million post-Business Separation credit facility, which was funded in 2011.  These costs were deferred and are being amortized over the life of the related debt instrument using the effective interest method (Note 5).  No such costs were incurred in 2012.

Advertising Costs

The Company expenses advertising costs and marketing production costs as incurred (included within customer operations expenses in the consolidated statements of operations).  Advertising expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $1.1 million, $0.9 million and $0.5 million, respectively. 

Pension Benefits and Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

The Company sponsors a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan (“Pension Plan”) that was established on the date of the Business Separation from NTELOS when the Company assumed its portion of the assets and liabilities for the pension benefits of its employees.  The Pension Plan covers all employees who meet eligibility requirements and were employed by NTELOS prior to October 1, 2003.  The Pension Plan was closed to employees hiredby NTELOS on or after October 1, 2003.  Pension benefits vest after five years of plan service and are based on years of service and an average of the five highest consecutive years of compensation subject to certain reductions if the employee retires before reaching age 65 and elects to receive the benefit prior to age 65.  Effective December 31, 2012, the Company made the decision to freeze the Pension Plan.  As such, no further benefits will be accrued by participants for services rendered beyond this date.

Sections 412 and 430 of the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA Sections 302 and303 establish minimum funding requirements for defined benefit pensionplans.  The minimum required contribution is generally equal to the target normal cost plus the shortfall amortization installments for the current plan year and each of the six preceding plan years less any calculated credit balance.  If plan assets (less calculated credits) are equal to or exceed the funding target, the minimum required contribution is the target normal cost reduced by the excess funding, but not below zero.  The Company’s policy is to make contributions to stay at or above the threshold required in order to prevent benefit restrictions and related additional notice requirements and is intended to provide for benefits to be paid in the future.  Also, Lumos Networks has nonqualified pension plans that are accounted for similar to its Pension Plan.

The Company also provides certain health care and life benefits for retired employees that meet eligibility requirements.  The Company has two qualified nonpension postretirement benefit plans.  The health care plan is contributory, with participants’ contributions adjusted annually.  The life insurance plan is also contributory.  These obligations, along with all of the pension plans and other post retirement benefit plans, are assumed by the Company.  In connection with the Business Separation, NTELOS transferred the portion of the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation.  Eligibility for the life insurance plan is restricted to active pension participants age 50-64 as of January 5, 1994.  Neither plan is eligible to employees hired after April 1993.  The accounting for the plans anticipates that the Company will maintain a consistent level of cost sharing for the benefits with the retirees.  The Company’s share of the projected costs of benefits that will be paid after retirement is generally being accrued by charges to expense over the eligible employees’ service periods to the dates they are fully eligible for benefits. 

The Company sponsors a contributory defined contribution plan under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) for substantially all employees.  In connection with the Business Separation, NTELOS transferred to the Company’s 401(k) plan an amount equal to the account balances of the Company’s employees and former employees in NTELOS’s 401(k) plan.  Each of the Company’s participating employees was credited for all service accrued with NTELOS prior to such transfer for all purposes under the Company’s 401(k) plan.  The Company’s policy is to match 100% of each participant’s annual contributions for contributions up to 1% of each participant’s annual compensation and 50% of each participant’s annual contributions up to an additional 5% of each participant’s annual compensation.  Company contributions vest after two years of service.

Operating Leases

The Company has operating leases for administrative office space and equipment, certain of which have renewal options.  These leases, with few exceptions, provide for automatic renewal options and escalations that are either fixed or based on the consumer price index.  Any rent abatements, along with rent escalations, are included in the computation of rent expense calculated on a straight-line basis over the lease term.  The Company’s minimum lease term for most leases includes the initial non-cancelable term and at least one renewal period to the extent that the exercise of the related renewal option or options is reasonably assured.  A renewal option or options is determined to be reasonably assured if failure to renew the leases imposes an in-substance economic penalty on the Company.  Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the assets’ useful life or the lease term, including renewal option periods that are reasonably assured.

Income Taxes

Deferred income taxes are provided on an asset and liability method whereby deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences.  Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases.  Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.The Company accrues interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and income tax expense, respectively.  Prior to the Business Separation, the Company’s income taxes were included in the NTELOS consolidated federal income tax return and certain unitary or consolidated state income tax returns of NTELOS Holdings Corp.  However, the Company’s income taxes were calculated and provided for on an “as if separate” tax return basis. 

Equity-based Compensation

The Company accounts for share-based employee compensation plans under FASB ASC 718, Stock Compensation.  Equity-based compensation expense from share-based equity awards is recorded with an offsetting increase to additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheet.  For equity awards with only service conditions, the Company recognizes compensation cost on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.

Equity awards prior to the Business Separation were granted in NTELOS stock instruments and the related expense was allocated to the Company.  Unvested NTELOS stock instruments were converted to commensurate Lumos Networks stock instruments in connection with and at the time of the Business Separation.  The fair value of the common stock options granted during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010was estimated at the respective measurement date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with assumptions related to risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, dividend yield and expected terms.

Total equity-based compensation expense related to all of the share-based awards (Note 9) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and the Company’s 401(k) matching contributions was allocated as follows:

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cost of sales and services	$	645	$	314	$	230
Customer operations		712		419		297
Corporate operations		2,555		1,650		1,002
Equity-based compensation expense	$	3,912	$	2,383	$	1,529

Future charges for equity-based compensation related to instruments outstanding at December 31, 2012 for the years 2013 through 2017 are estimated to be $2.1 million, $2.1 million, $1.2 million, $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

Pro Forma Earnings (Loss) per Share (Unaudited)

The Company computes earnings (loss) per share based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock and dilutive potential common shares equivalents outstanding.  Prior to November 1, 2011, the Company did not have any common stock outstanding and therefore, pro forma earnings (loss) per share for 2011 is calculated based on the two month period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011 and is not applicable for 2010.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220):  Presentation of Comprehensive Income.  This ASU increases the prominence of other comprehensive income in financial statements.  Under this ASU, an entity has the option to present the components of net income and comprehensive income in either one or two consecutive financial statements.  The ASU eliminates the option in U.S. GAAP to present other comprehensive income in the statement of changes in equity.  An entity should apply this ASU retrospectively.  This ASU was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2012.  We have complied with the requirements of this pronouncement by providing a consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss), which follows the consolidated statement of operations in this annual report on Form 10-K.

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Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information [Abstract]

Disclosures About Segments Of An Enterprise And Related Information

Note 4.  Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information

The Company manages its business with separate products and servicesin two segments as described below. 

Competitive:  The Company directly or indirectly owns approximately 5,800 long-haul miles of fiber optic network which it utilizes to providebroadband services to enterprise, carrier and residential customers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia and portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Kentucky. The Competitive segment derives revenue from three major product families:  strategic data, legacy voice and access.  Strategic data products include enterprise data (dedicated internet, metro Ethernet, and private line), carrier data (transport and fiber to the cell site) and IP services (integrated access, DSL, broadband XL, and IP-based video).Legacy voice includes local lines, PRI, long distance and legacy dial-up Internet services products.  Access primarily includes switched access and reciprocal compensation. As noted in the RLEC section below, revenue and operating expenses from services sold in the RLEC service areas that relate to unregulated services are reported in the Competitive segment.  The Competitive segment pays the RLEC tariff and prevailing market rates for these services, the revenue and expense of which are eliminated in consolidation.

RLEC:  The Company has two RLEC businesses subject to the regulations of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia.  These businesses serve several areas in western Virginia, are fully integrated and are managed as one consolidated operation.  The RLEC segment derives revenue from two key product families:  legacy voice (primarily local service and features, toll and directory advertising) and access.  The RLEC also provides IP-based video services and high speed broadband Internet to customers in areas where it has deployed fiber to the home.  Revenues and operating expenses related to video and Internet services are reported in the Competitive segment.

Revenues from Verizon accounted for approximately 10% of the Company’s total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2012 and 9% and 12% of the Company’s total revenue forthe years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively.  Revenue from Verizon was derived from RLEC and Competitive segments’ access products.  

Summarized financial information concerning the Company’s reportable segments is shown in the following table. 

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations		Total
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2012
Operating revenues	$	157,720	$	49,151	$	-	$	206,871
Intersegment revenues (1)		967		4,862		(5,829)		-
Depreciation and amortization		26,341		12,543		-		38,884
Operating income		25,257		15,939		-		41,196
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		57,718		31,171		-		88,889
Capital expenditures		52,582		7,299		-		59,881
Goodwill		100,297		-		-		100,297
Total assets	$	402,249	$	110,913	$	-	$	513,162

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations		Total
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2011
Operating revenues	$	154,397	$	53,017	$	-	$	207,414
Intersegment revenues (1)		644		4,632		(5,276)		-
Depreciation and amortization		29,487		13,603		-		43,090
Operating income (loss)		29,955		(66,328)		-		(36,373)
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		62,098		34,842		-		96,940
Capital expenditures		45,720		15,816		-		61,536
Goodwill		100,297		-		-		100,297
Total assets	$	355,979	$	142,621	$	-	$	498,600

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(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Eliminations		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2010
Operating revenues	$	88,471	$	57,493	$	-	$	145,964
Intersegment revenues (1)		1,036		4,254		(5,290)		-
Depreciation and amortization		17,263		14,102		-		31,365
Operating income		16,208		24,921		-		41,129
Adjusted EBITDA (2)		37,316		39,738		-		77,054
Capital expenditures	$	27,950	$	12,304	$	-	$	40,254

⁽¹⁾ Intersegment revenues consist primarily of telecommunications services such as local exchange services, inter-city and local transport voice and data services, and leasing of various network elements.  Intersegment revenues are primarily recorded at tariff and prevailing market rates.

⁽²⁾ The Company evaluates performance based upon Adjusted EBITDA, defined by the Company as net income (loss) attributable to Lumos Networks Corp. before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, accretion of asset retirement obligations, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, other income or expenses, equity based compensation charges, acquisition related charges, amortization of actuarial losses on retirement plans, employee separation charges, restructuring related charges, gain or loss on settlements and gain or loss on interest rate derivatives.

The following table provides a reconciliation of operating income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA by reportable segment, as defined by the Company, for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2012
Operating income	$	25,257	$	15,939	$	41,196
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset
retirement obligations		26,439		12,569		39,008
Sub-total:		51,696		28,508		80,204
Amortization of actuarial losses		1,336		445		1,781
Equity based compensation		2,895		1,017		3,912
Employee separation charges (1)		1,759		587		2,346
Restructuring charges (2)		1,784		1,197		2,981
Gain on settlements, net (3)		(1,752)		(583)		(2,335)
Adjusted EBITDA	$	57,718	$	31,171	$	88,889

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2011
Operating income (loss)	$	29,955	$	(66,328)	$	(36,373)
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset
retirement obligations		29,579		13,627		43,206
Sub-total:		59,534		(52,701)		6,833
Asset impairment charges		-		86,295		86,295
Equity based compensation		1,474		909		2,383
Business separation charges (4)		1,019		339		1,358
Acquisition related charges (5)		71		-		71
Adjusted EBITDA	$	62,098	$	34,842	$	96,940

(In thousands)	Competitive		RLEC		Total
For the year ended December 31, 2010
Operating Income	$	16,208	$	24,921	$	41,129
Depreciation and amortization and accretion of asset
retirement obligations		17,272		14,104		31,376
Sub-total:		33,480		39,025		72,505
Equity based compensation		816		713		1,529
Acquisition related charges (5)		3,020		-		3,020
Adjusted EBITDA	$	37,316	$	39,738	$	77,054

⁽¹⁾ Employee separation charges include employee separation benefits which were provided for in the separation agreements of two executive officers who left the Company in April and December 2012.  These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

⁽²⁾ In the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company announced a cost reduction plan involving an employee reduction-in-force, consolidation of certain facilities and freezing benefits under certain postretirement plans.  Restructuring charges of $3.0 million were recognized in 2012 in connection with this plan (Note 12).

⁽³⁾ The net pre-tax gain on settlements was recognized in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (Note 13).

⁽⁴⁾ Business Separation charges include audit, legal and other professional fees incurred during the period related to the Company’s separation from NTELOS Holdings Corp. into a separate publicly traded company (Note 1).  These charges are included in corporate operations expense on the statement of operations.

Acquisition related charges include legal and other professional fees incurred during 2010 and 2011 related to the Company’s acquisition of the FiberNet business from One Communications Corp., which closed on December 1, 2010.

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Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information [Abstract]

Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information

Note 6.  Supplementary Disclosures of Cash Flow Information

The following information is presented as supplementary disclosures for the consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cash payments for:
Interest (net of amounts capitalized)	$	11,972	$	2,261	$	29
Income taxes		1,892		87		263
Supplemental investing and financing
activities:
Additions to property and equipment
included in accounts payable and
other accrued liabilities		6,621		2,900		2,492
Borrowings under capital leases		380		990		498
Dividends paid through increase in
borrowings from NTELOS Inc.		-		14,145		29,240
Dividend declared not paid	$	3,013	$	2,980	$	-

The amount of interest capitalized was $0.1 million, less than $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

The net assets acquired by Lumos Networks in the Business Separation were effectively settled with the $315 million cash payment from Lumos Networks to NTELOS on October 31, 2011 (Note 2).  Of this payment, $177.1 million represented the payoff of intercompany debt owed to NTELOS and the transfer of assets and liabilities between NTELOS and the subsidiaries of NTELOS that now comprise Lumos Networks.

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Income Taxes (Reconciliation Of Change In Unrecognized Income Tax Benefits) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Income Taxes [Abstract]
Balance at beginning of year	$ 484	$ 500
Additions for tax positions related to the current year	82
Increases (reductions) for tax positions related to prior years	43	(16)
Balance at end of year	$ 609	$ 484

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Schedule Of Defined Benefit Plan Disclosures) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2012
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets, end of period	$ 45,109	$ 51,675
Defined Benefit Pension Plan [Member]
Change in benefit obligations:
Benefit obligations, beginning of period	60,181	64,061
Service cost	312	2,043
Interest cost	451	2,698
Actuarial loss	3,528	5,942
Benefits paid, net	(411)	(2,475)
Curtailment gain		(8,519)
Transfer		761
Benefit obligations, end of period	64,061	64,511
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of period	45,531	45,109
Actual return on plan assets	(11)	6,610
Employer contributions		2,000
Benefits paid	(411)	(2,492)
Transfer		448
Fair value of plan assets, end of period	45,109	51,675
Funded status:
Total liability, end of period	18,952	12,836
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Member]
Change in benefit obligations:
Benefit obligations, beginning of period	12,157	12,511
Service cost	12	78
Interest cost	91	525
Actuarial loss	318	201
Benefits paid, net	(67)	(441)
Benefit obligations, end of period	12,511	12,874
Change in plan assets:
Employer contributions	67	441
Benefits paid	(67)	(441)
Funded status:
Total liability, end of period	$ 12,511	$ 12,874

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Income Taxes (Schedule Of Net Deferred Tax Assets And Liabilities) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Income Taxes [Abstract]
Retirement benefits other than pension	$ 5,053	$ 5,349
Pension and related plans	6,228	9,022
Net operating loss	4,346	5,020
Accrued expenses	4,146	2,623
Other	1,379	2,523
Deferred income tax assets	21,152	24,537
Property and equipment	67,493	57,098
Intangibles	9,615	8,643
Deferred income tax liabilities	77,108	65,741
Net deferred income tax liability	$ 55,956	$ 41,204

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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Income Taxes [Abstract]

Schedule Of Components Of Income Tax Expense (Benefit)

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Current tax expense:
Federal	$	-	$	-	$	8,515
State		496		3,727		2,499
Total current tax expense		496		3,727		11,014
Deferred tax expense (benefit):
Federal		8,982		(3,657)		3,275
State		1,532		(4,453)		188
Total deferred tax expense (benefit)		10,514		(8,110)		3,463
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,010	$	(4,383)	$	14,477

Schedule Of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Computed tax expense (benefit) at statutory federal
rate of 35%	$	9,610	$	(16,891)	$	12,397
Nondeductible goodwill impairment charge		-		11,703		-
Nondeductible compensation		91		637		378
Noncontrolling interests		(37)		18		(42)
State income taxes (benefits), net of federal income
tax benefit (expense)		1,318		(472)		1,746
Other		28		622		(2)
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,010	$	(4,383)	$	14,477

Schedule Of Net Deferred Tax Assets And Liabilities

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Deferred income tax assets:
Retirement benefits other than pension	$	5,053	$	5,349
Pension and related plans		6,228		9,022
Net operating loss		4,346		5,020
Debt issuance and discount		-		-
Accrued expenses		4,146		2,623
Other		1,379		2,523
		21,152		24,537
Deferred income tax liabilities:
Property and equipment		67,493		57,098
Intangibles		9,615		8,643
		77,108		65,741
Net deferred income tax liability	$	55,956	$	41,204

Reconciliation Of Change In Unrecognized Income Tax Benefits

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Balance at beginning of year	$	484	$	500
Additions for tax positions related to the current year		82		-
Increases (reductions) for tax positions related to prior years		43		(16)
	$	609	$	484

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Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information (Narrative) (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Supplementary Disclosures Of Cash Flow Information [Abstract]
Interest capitalized	$ 0.1	$ 0.1	$ 0.1
Cash paid to NTELOS Inc. associated with the Business Separation		315
Cash paid to settle intercompany debt obligation		$ 177.1

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits [Abstract]

Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits

Note 11.  Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Benefits

The Company sponsors a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan (“Pension Plan”), as well as non-qualified pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans (“OPEBs”) for its eligible employees.  The Company’s total periodic benefit cost recognized for all qualified and nonqualified pension and OPEBs plans was $2.2 million, $2.8 million and $2.4 million in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.  A portion of the costs for 2011 and 2010 were allocated to the Company by NTELOS, when its employees were participating in similar plans sponsored by NTELOS.  Concurrent with the Business Separation, the Company established its own qualified and nonqualified pension plans and OPEBs for its employees.  The Company initially measured the plansas ofOctober 31, 2011 based on actual plan assets transferred to the Company effective upon the Business Separation and the actual plan participants and their respective accrued benefits.  In addition to the transfer of the assets and obligations from these plans, the related unrealized actuarial losses from these plans as determined on the October 31, 2011 measurement date was transferred from NTELOS.

Effective December 31, 2012, the Company froze the accumulation of benefits under the Pension Plan and the supplemental executive retirement plan in conjunction with a cost reduction plan that was announced in mid-December 2012.  As such, no further benefits will be accrued by plan participants for services rendered after this date under either of these plans.

The following tables provide a reconciliation of the changes in the qualified plans’ benefit obligations and fair value of assets and a statement of the funded status as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the classification of amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
(In thousands)	Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011		Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Change in benefit obligations:
Benefit obligations, beginning of period	$	64,061	$	60,181	$	12,511	$	12,157
Service cost		2,043		312		78		12
Interest cost		2,698		451		525		91
Actuarial loss		5,942		3,528		201		318
Benefits paid, net		(2,475)		(411)		(441)		(67)
Curtailment gain		(8,519)		-		-		-
Transfer		761		-		-		-
Benefit obligations, end of period		64,511		64,061		12,874		12,511
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of period		45,109		45,531		-		-
Actual return on plan assets		6,610		(11)		-		-
Employer contributions		2,000		-		441		67
Benefits paid		(2,492)		(411)		(441)		(67)
Transfer		448		-		-		-
Fair value of plan assets, end of period		51,675		45,109		-		-
Funded status:
Total liability, end of period	$	12,836	$	18,952	$	12,874	$	12,511

The accumulated benefit obligation for the defined benefit pension plan at December 31, 2012 and 2011 was $64.5 million and $56.5 million, respectively.  The accumulated benefit obligation represents the present value of pension benefits based on service and salary earned to date.  The benefit obligation indicated in the table above is the projected benefit obligation which represents the present value of pension benefits taking into account projected future service and salary increases.  The projected benefit obligation is equal to the accumulated benefit obligation as of December 31, 2012 due to the Company’s freezing of benefits under the Plan effective as of this same date.

The Company has classified the projected amount to be paid in 2013 of $0.9 million related to the other postretirement benefit plans and the nonqualified pension plans (discussed below) in current liabilities under the caption “other accrued liabilities” on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2012.

The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for the plans for the year ended December 31, 2012 and the period November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011:  

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
(In thousands)	Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011		Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Components of net periodic benefit cost:
Service cost	$	2,043	$	312	$	78	$	12
Interest cost		2,698		451		525		91
Expected return on plan assets		(3,517)		(571)		-		-
Amortization of loss		1,481		197		-		-
Net periodic benefit cost	$	2,705	$	389	$	603	$	103

Prior service costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the average remaining service period of active participants.  Gains and losses in excess of 10% of the greater of the benefit obligation and the market-related value of assets are amortized over the average remaining service period of active participants.

Unrecognized actuarial losses for the year ended December 31, 2012 were $2.9 million and $0.2 million for the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans, respectively.  A curtailment gain of $8.5 million was recognized as of December 31, 2012 in connection with the Company’s freezing of the defined benefit pension plan.  The curtailment gain was recorded as an offset to unrecognized actuarial losses in accumulated other comprehensive income.  The total amount of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss at December 31, 2012 related to the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans, respectively, was $10.3 million, net of a $6.5 million deferred tax asset, and $0.9 million, net of a $0.6 million deferred tax asset.

Unrecognized actuarial losses for the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 were $4.1 million and $0.3 million for the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans, respectively.  The total amount of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss at December 31, 2011 related to these respective plans was $14.4 million, net of a $9.2 million deferred tax asset, and $0.8 million, net of a $0.5 million deferred tax asset.

The assumptions used in the measurements of the Company’s benefit obligations at December 31, 2012and 2011 are shown in the following table:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
	December 31, 2012		December 31, 2011		December 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Discount rate	3.85	%	4.30	%	3.85	%	4.30	%
Rate of compensation increase	3.00	%	3.00	%	N/A		N/A

The assumptions used in the measurements of the Company’s net cost for the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 and for the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 are:

	Defined Benefit Pension Plan				Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
	Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011		Year Ended December 31, 2012		November 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Discount rate	4.30	%	4.60	%	4.30	%	4.60	%
Expected return on plan assets	7.75	%	7.75	%	N/A		N/A
Rate of compensation increase	3.00	%	3.00	%	N/A		N/A

The Company reviews the assumptions noted in the above table annually or more frequently to reflect anticipated future changes in the underlying economic factors used to determine these assumptions.  The discount rates assumed reflect the rate at which the Company could invest in high quality corporate bonds in order to settle future obligations.  In doing so, the Company utilizes a Citigroup Pension Discount Curve applied against the Company’s estimated defined benefit payments to derive a blended rate.  The Citigroup Pension Discount Curve is derived from over 350 Aa corporate bonds.  The Company also compares this to a Moody’s ten year Aa bond index for reasonableness. 

For measurement purposes, a 7.0% annual rate of increase in the per capita cost of covered health care benefits was assumed for 2013 for the obligation as of December 31, 2012.  The rate was assumed to decrease one-half percent per year to a rate of 5.0% for 2017 and remain at that level thereafter.

Assumed health care cost trend rates have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the health care plans.  The effect of a 1% change on the medical trend rate per future year, while holding all other assumptions constant,to the service and interest cost components of net periodic postretirement health care benefit costsand accumulated postretirement benefit obligation would be a  $0.1million increase and a $1.9 million increase, respectively, for a 1% increase in medical trend rate and a  $0.1 million decrease and a $1.6 million decrease, respectively, for a 1% decrease in medical trend rate.  

In developing the expected long-term rate of return assumption for the assets of the Defined Benefit Pension Plan, the Company evaluated input from its third party pension plan asset managers, including their review of asset class return expectations and long-term inflation assumptions.  The Company also considered the related historical ten-year average asset return at December 31, 2012 as well as considering input from the Company’s third party pension plan asset managers. 

The weighted average actual asset allocations by asset category and the fair value by asset category as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 were as follows:

(Dollars in thousands)	December 31, 2012				December 31, 2011
Asset Category	Actual Allocation		Fair Value		Actual Allocation		Fair Value
Large Cap Value	32	%	$	16,395	34	%	$	15,088
Large Cap Blend	16	%		8,169	17	%		7,536
Mid Cap Blend	6	%		3,149	6	%		2,846
Small Cap Blend	4	%		2,134	4	%		1,896
Foreign Stock - Large Cap	7	%		3,696	7	%		3,040
Bond	32	%		16,405	29	%		13,281
Cash and cash equivalents	3	%		1,727	3	%		1,422
Total	100	%	$	51,675	100	%	$	45,109

The actual and target allocation for plan assets is broadly defined and measured as follows:

	December 31, 2012				December 31, 2011
Asset Category	Actual Allocation		Target Allocation		Actual Allocation
Equity securities	65	%	65	%	67	%
Bond securities and cash equivalents	35	%	35	%	33	%
Total	100	%	100	%	100	%

It is the Company’s policy to invest pension plan assets in a diversified portfolio consisting of an array of asset classes.  The investment risk of the assets is limited by appropriate diversification both within and between asset classes.  The assets are primarily invested in investment funds that invest in a broad mix of publicly traded equities,  bonds and cash equivalents (and fair value is based on quoted market prices (“level 1” input)).  The allocation between equity and bonds is reset quarterly to the target allocations.  Updates to the allocation are considered in the normal course and changes may be made when appropriate.  The bond holdings consist of three bond funds split relatively evenly between these funds at December 31, 2012.  At December 31, 2012, the Company believes that there are no material concentrations of risk within the portfolio of plan assets.

The assumed long term return noted above is the target long term return.  Overall return, risk adjusted return, and management fees are assessed against a peer group and benchmark indices.  Reporting on asset performance is provided quarterly and review meetings are held semi-annually.  In addition to normal rebalancing to maintain an adequate cash reserve, projected cash flow needs of the plan are reviewed at least annually to ensure liquidity is properly managed. 

The Company contributed $2.0 million to the pension plan in 2012.  The Company does not expect to contribute to the pension plan in 2013.  The Company expects the net periodic benefit cost for the defined benefit pension plan and the other postretirement benefit plans in 2013 to be income of $0.6 million (which includes $0.9 million of loss in other comprehensive income expected to be recognized as a component of net periodic benefit cost) and $0.6 million, respectively. 

The following estimated future pension benefit payments and other postretirement benefit plan payments which reflect expected future service, as appropriate, are expected to be paid in the years indicated:

(In thousands) Year	Defined Benefit Pension Plan		Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
2013	$	2,665	$	553
2014		2,696		544
2015		2,785		533
2016		2,937		555
2017		3,009		583
2018-2022	$	15,855	$	3,159

Other Benefit Plans

The Company has a supplemental executive retirement plan that was formed through transfer of benefit obligations of $2.5 million related to the Company’s employees or former employees from NTELOS in connection with the Business Separation.  In addition, the transfer of the benefit obligation triggered the transfer of a gross unrealized loss of $1.0 million.  Both the projected benefit obligation and the accumulated benefit obligation associated with this plan at December 31, 2012 were $4.8 million.  Effective December 31, 2012, the Company decided to freeze the supplemental executive retirement plan.  As such, no further benefits will be accrued by plan participants for services rendered after this date. In connection with this, a curtailment gain of $0.2 million was recorded at December 31, 2012 as an offset to unrecognized actuarial losses in accumulated other comprehensive income. 

The projected benefit obligation and the accumulated benefit obligation associated with this plan at December 31, 2011 were $4.3 million and $2.5 million, respectively.  The Company recognized $0.3 million and $0.2 million of expense from previously unrecognized loss related to the supplemental executive retirement plan during the year ended December 31, 2012 and the period November 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, respectively.  The total balance of unrecognized actuarial losses recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income at December 31, 2012 and 2011 related to this plan was $1.5 million, net of a $1.0 million deferred tax asset, and $1.6 million, net of a $1.0 million deferred tax asset, respectively. 

The estimated future benefit payments are expected to be $0.3 million annually for each of the years 2013 through 2017 and $1.3 million in aggregate for the years 2018 through 2022.

The Company also has certain other nonqualified defined benefit pension plans assumed from a prior merger.  The projected benefit obligation related to these plans at December 31, 2012 and 2011 was $0.5 million and $0.9 million, respectively, with expected future payments of $0.2 million in 2013 and $0.1 million or less thereafter.  Thesenonqualified plans have no plan assets and are also closed to new participants. 

The Company also sponsors a defined contribution 401(k) plan.  The Company’s matching contributions to this plan were  $0.8 million, $0.7 million and $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and2010, respectively.  The Company funds its 401(k) matching contributions in shares of the Company’s common stock.

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Significant Accounting Policies (Policy)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Significant Accounting Policies[Abstract]

Accounting Estimates

Accounting Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods.  Actual results could differ from those estimates.  Additionally, the financial information for 2011 and 2010 included herein may not necessarily reflect the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows in the future or what the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows would have been had Lumos Networks been an independent, publicly traded company prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011.

Principles Of Consolidation

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, Lumos Networks Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and all of Lumos Networks Operating Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries and those limited liability corporations where Lumos Networks Operating Company or certain of its subsidiaries, as managing member, exercised control.  All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

For all periods prior to the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, the consolidated financial statements principally represent the financial results reflected by NTELOS constituting the companies comprising the Competitive and RLEC wireline segments.  These financial results as of and for the periods prior to the date of the Business Separation have been adjusted to reflect certain corporate expenses which were not previously allocated to the segments.  These allocations primarily represent corporate support functions, including but not limited to accounting, human resources, information technology and executive management, as well as corporate legal and professional fees, including audit fees, and equity-based compensation expense related to equity-based awards granted to employees in corporate support functions and executive management.  These additional expenses for the ten months ended October 31, 2011 were $2.6 million and for the year ended December 31, 2010 were $5.1 million (inclusive of $2.8 million of acquisition-related costs).  The Company believes that these costs would not have been materially different had they been calculated on a standalone basis.  However, such costs are not indicative of the actual level of expense and exclude certain expenses that would have been incurred by the Company if it had operated as an independent, publicly traded company nor are they comparable to the expenses incurred in 2012.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenue when services are rendered or when products are delivered, installed and functional, as applicable.  Certain services of the Company require payment in advance of service performance.  In such cases, the Company records a service liability at the time of billing and subsequently recognizes revenue ratably over the service period. The Company bills customers certain transactional taxes on service revenues.  These transactional taxes are not included in reported revenues as they are recognized as liabilities at the time customers are billed.

The Company earns revenue by providing services through access to and usage of its networks.  Local service revenues are recognized as services are provided.  Carrier data revenues are earned by providing switched access and other switched and dedicated services, including wireless roamer management, to other carriers.  Revenues for equipment sales are recognized at the point of sale. 

The Company periodically makes claims for recovery of access charges on certain minutes of use terminated by the Company on behalf of other carriers. The Company recognizes revenue in the period when it is determined that the amounts can be estimated and collection is reasonably assured.

Cash And Cash Equivalents

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers its investment in all highly liquid debt instruments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.  The Company places its temporary cash investments with high credit quality financial institutions with a maturity date of not greater than 90 days from acquisition and all are investments held by commercial banks.  At times, such investments may be in excess of the FDIC insurance limit. At December 31, 2012 and 2011,  the Company did not have any cash equivalents. 

As of December 31, 2012, all of the Company’s cash was held in non-interest bearing deposit accounts.  Total interest income related to cash was negligible for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010.

The Company utilizes a zero balance arrangement for its master cash account against a swingline facility that the Company has with its primary commercial bank.  As of December 31, 2012, the Company reclassified its book overdraft related to this master cash account of $1.8 million to Accounts Payable on the consolidated balance sheet.  The Company has classified this overdraft in cash flows from operating activities on the consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2012.

Restricted Cash

Restricted Cash

During 2010, the Company received a federal broadband stimulus award to bring broadband services and infrastructure to Alleghany County, Virginia.  The total project is $16.1 million, of which 50% (approximately $8 million) is being funded by a grant from the federal government.  The project is expected to be completed before September 30, 2015.  The Company was required to deposit 100% of its portion for the grant (approximately $8 million) into a pledged account in advance of any reimbursements, which can be drawn down ratably following the grant reimbursement approvals which are contingent on adherence to the program requirements.  The Company received $2.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2012 and $0.5 million in 2011 for the reimbursable portion of the qualified recoverable expenditures to date.  The Company hasa  $1.5 million receivable for the reimbursable portion of the qualified recoverable expenditures through December 31, 2012.  At  December 31, 2012, the Company’spledged account balance was  $5.3 million.  This escrow account is a non-interest bearing account with the Company’sprimary commercial bank. 

Trade Accounts Receivable

Trade Accounts Receivable

The Company sells its services to commercial and residential end-users and to other communication carriers primarily in Virginia and West Virginia and portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.  The Company has credit and collection policies to maximize collection of trade receivables and requires deposits on certain sales.  The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts based on historical results, current and expected trends and changes in credit policies.  Management believes the allowance adequately covers all anticipated losses with respect to trade receivables.  Actual credit losses could differ from such estimates. The Company includes bad debt expense in customer operations expense in the consolidated statements of operations.  Bad debt expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $0.6 million, $1.0 million and $0.3 million, respectively.  The Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts was $1.8 million and $2.8 million as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Property, Plant And Equipment And Other Long-Lived Assets

Property, Plant and Equipment and Other Long-Lived Assets (Excluding Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets)

Property, plant and equipment, finite-lived intangible assets and long-term deferred charges are recorded at cost and are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount should be evaluated pursuant to the subsequent measurement guidance described in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 360-10-35.  Impairment is determined by comparing the carrying value of these long-lived assets to management’s best estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the assets.  If the carrying value exceeds the estimated undiscounted cash flows, the excess of the asset’s carrying value over the estimated fair value is recorded as an impairment charge.

In 2011, the Company determined that the fair value of the RLEC segment assets, including property, plant and equipment and finite-lived intangible assets, was lower than the carrying value as a result of the revaluation of assets performed in connection with the Business Separation as of October 31, 2011.  An impairment charge was recorded for $20.9 million ($12.7 million net of tax), which is included in the line item “asset impairment charges” on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011.  The allocation of the impairment charge was as follows:

(In thousands)	2011
Property, plant and equipment	$	16,032
Customer intangible		4,661
Trademark		164
Total impairment	$	20,857

The Company believes that no impairment indicators exist as of December 31, 2012 that would require it to perform impairment testing for long-lived assets, including property, plant and equipment, long-term deferred charges and finite-lived intangible assets to be held and used.

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment is calculated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which the Company reviews and updates based on historical experiences and future expectations.  At December 31, 2012, the Company revised the useful lives of certain leasehold improvements as a result of the termination of a building lease.  The Company recognized accelerated depreciation costs of $1.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 as a result of this change in estimate.

Intangibles with a finite life are classified as other intangibles on the consolidated balance sheets.  At December 31, 2012and 2011, other intangibles were comprised of the following: 

		2012				2011
(Dollars in thousands)	Estimated Life	Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization		Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization
Customer relationships	3 to 15 yrs	$	103,153	$	(69,734)	$	103,153	$	(59,286)
Trademarks	0.5 to 15 yrs		3,518		(2,042)		3,186		(1,884)
Non-compete agreement	2 yrs		1,100		(1,100)		1,100		(572)
Total		$	107,771	$	(72,876)	$	107,439	$	(61,742)

The Company amortizes its finite-lived intangible assets using the straight-line method unless it determines that another systematic method is more appropriate.  The amortization for certain customer relationship intangibles is being recognized using an accelerated amortization method based on the pattern of estimated earnings from these assets.

The estimated life of amortizable intangible assets is determined from the unique factors specific to each asset and the Company reviews and updates estimated lives based on current events and future expectations. The Company capitalizes costs incurred to renew or extend the term of a recognized intangible asset and amortizes such costs over the remaining life of the asset. No such costs were incurred during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 or 2010.  Amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $11.1 million, $15.4 million and $8.6 million, respectively.

Amortization expense for the next five years is expected to be as follows:

(In thousands)	Customer Relationships		Trademarks		Total
2013	$	9,665	$	159	$	9,824
2014		9,028		159		9,187
2015		4,648		159		4,807
2016		2,416		159		2,575
2017		2,097		159		2,256

Goodwill And Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets

Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets

Goodwill and franchise rights are considered to be indefinite-lived intangible assets.  Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not subject to amortization but are instead tested for impairment annually or more frequently if an event indicates that the asset might be impaired.  The Company policy is to assess the recoverability of indefinite-lived assets annually on October 1 and whenever adverse events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may have occurred.

The Company uses a two-step process to test for goodwill impairment.  Step one requires a determination of the fair value of each of the reporting units and, to the extent that the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value (including goodwill), the step two calculation of implied fair value of goodwill is not required and no impairment loss is recognized.In testing for goodwill impairment, the Company utilizes a combination of a discounted cash flow model and an analysis which allocates enterprise value to the reporting units. 

In 2011, based on its ASC 360-10-35 testing, the Company determined that both the goodwill and the franchise rights for the RLEC segment were fully impaired.  As a result, the Company recorded a $65.4 million asset impairment charge ($53.0 million after tax), which is included in the line item “asset impairment charges” on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012.  The Company determined that there was no impairment of the Competitive segment goodwill in 2011 as the fair value of the reporting unit substantially exceeded its carrying value.

In 2012, the Company adopted FASB Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2011-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350):  Testing Goodwill for Impairment, which permits an entity to take a qualitative approach to determining whether it is more likely than not that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount before applying the two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test promulgated by FASB ASC Topic 350.  After a preliminary assessment of quantitative factors the Company elected not to use this option for our 2012 testing and applied the two-step quantitative process as described above.  Based on the results of this annual impairment testing performed as of October 1, 2012, the Company determined that the fair value of the Competitive segment reporting unit substantially exceeds its carrying amount and that no impairment exists.

The following table presents the activity in goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. 

	2012						2011
(In thousands)	Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss		Net Goodwill		Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss		Net Goodwill
Beginning balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	-	$	133,735
Impairment of goodwill in the RLEC segment		-		-		-		-		(33,438)		(33,438)
Ending balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297

Accounting For Asset Retirement Obligations

Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations

An asset retirement obligation is evaluated and recorded as appropriate on assets for which the Company has a legal obligation to retire.  The Company records a liability for an asset retirement obligation and the associated asset retirement cost at the time the underlying asset is acquired.  Subsequent to the initial measurement of the asset retirement obligation, the obligation is adjusted at the end of each period to reflect the passage of time and changes in the estimated future cash flows underlying the obligation. 

The Company enters into various facility co-location agreements and is subject to locality franchise ordinances.  The Company constructs assets at these locations and, in accordance with the terms of many of these agreements, the Company is obligated to restore the premises to their original condition at the conclusion of the agreements, generally at the demand of the other party to these agreements.  The Company recognizes the fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation and capitalizes that cost as part of the cost basis of the related asset, depreciating it over the useful life of the related asset.

Included in certain of the franchise ordinances under which the RLECs and CLECs operate are clauses that require the removal of the RLEC’s and CLEC’s equipment at the termination of the franchise agreement.  The Company has not recognized an asset retirement obligation for these liabilitiesas the removal of the equipment is not estimable due to an indeterminable end dateand the fact that the equipment is part of the public switched telephone network and it is not reasonable to assume the jurisdictions would require its removal.

The following table indicates the changes to the Company’s asset retirement obligation liability, which is included in other long-term liabilities, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Asset retirement obligations, beginning	$	1,114	$	1,070
Additional asset retirement obligations recorded, net of
adjustments in estimates		(2)		(72)
Accretion of asset retirement obligations		124		116
Asset retirement obligations, ending	$	1,236	$	1,114

Deferred Financing Costs

Deferred Financing Costs

The Company incurred and paid $4.9 million of issuance costs related to the $370 million post-Business Separation credit facility, which was funded in 2011.  These costs were deferred and are being amortized over the life of the related debt instrument using the effective interest method (Note 5).  No such costs were incurred in 2012.

Advertising Costs

Advertising Costs

The Company expenses advertising costs and marketing production costs as incurred (included within customer operations expenses in the consolidated statements of operations).  Advertising expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $1.1 million, $0.9 million and $0.5 million, respectively. 

Pension Benefits And Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

Pension Benefits and Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

The Company sponsors a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan (“Pension Plan”) that was established on the date of the Business Separation from NTELOS when the Company assumed its portion of the assets and liabilities for the pension benefits of its employees.  The Pension Plan covers all employees who meet eligibility requirements and were employed by NTELOS prior to October 1, 2003.  The Pension Plan was closed to employees hiredby NTELOS on or after October 1, 2003.  Pension benefits vest after five years of plan service and are based on years of service and an average of the five highest consecutive years of compensation subject to certain reductions if the employee retires before reaching age 65 and elects to receive the benefit prior to age 65.  Effective December 31, 2012, the Company made the decision to freeze the Pension Plan.  As such, no further benefits will be accrued by participants for services rendered beyond this date.

Sections 412 and 430 of the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA Sections 302 and303 establish minimum funding requirements for defined benefit pensionplans.  The minimum required contribution is generally equal to the target normal cost plus the shortfall amortization installments for the current plan year and each of the six preceding plan years less any calculated credit balance.  If plan assets (less calculated credits) are equal to or exceed the funding target, the minimum required contribution is the target normal cost reduced by the excess funding, but not below zero.  The Company’s policy is to make contributions to stay at or above the threshold required in order to prevent benefit restrictions and related additional notice requirements and is intended to provide for benefits to be paid in the future.  Also, Lumos Networks has nonqualified pension plans that are accounted for similar to its Pension Plan.

The Company also provides certain health care and life benefits for retired employees that meet eligibility requirements.  The Company has two qualified nonpension postretirement benefit plans.  The health care plan is contributory, with participants’ contributions adjusted annually.  The life insurance plan is also contributory.  These obligations, along with all of the pension plans and other post retirement benefit plans, are assumed by the Company.  In connection with the Business Separation, NTELOS transferred the portion of the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation.  Eligibility for the life insurance plan is restricted to active pension participants age 50-64 as of January 5, 1994.  Neither plan is eligible to employees hired after April 1993.  The accounting for the plans anticipates that the Company will maintain a consistent level of cost sharing for the benefits with the retirees.  The Company’s share of the projected costs of benefits that will be paid after retirement is generally being accrued by charges to expense over the eligible employees’ service periods to the dates they are fully eligible for benefits. 

The Company sponsors a contributory defined contribution plan under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) for substantially all employees.  In connection with the Business Separation, NTELOS transferred to the Company’s 401(k) plan an amount equal to the account balances of the Company’s employees and former employees in NTELOS’s 401(k) plan.  Each of the Company’s participating employees was credited for all service accrued with NTELOS prior to such transfer for all purposes under the Company’s 401(k) plan.  The Company’s policy is to match 100% of each participant’s annual contributions for contributions up to 1% of each participant’s annual compensation and 50% of each participant’s annual contributions up to an additional 5% of each participant’s annual compensation.  Company contributions vest after two years of service.

Operating Leases

Operating Leases

The Company has operating leases for administrative office space and equipment, certain of which have renewal options.  These leases, with few exceptions, provide for automatic renewal options and escalations that are either fixed or based on the consumer price index.  Any rent abatements, along with rent escalations, are included in the computation of rent expense calculated on a straight-line basis over the lease term.  The Company’s minimum lease term for most leases includes the initial non-cancelable term and at least one renewal period to the extent that the exercise of the related renewal option or options is reasonably assured.  A renewal option or options is determined to be reasonably assured if failure to renew the leases imposes an in-substance economic penalty on the Company.  Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the assets’ useful life or the lease term, including renewal option periods that are reasonably assured.

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

Deferred income taxes are provided on an asset and liability method whereby deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences.  Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases.  Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.The Company accrues interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and income tax expense, respectively.  Prior to the Business Separation, the Company’s income taxes were included in the NTELOS consolidated federal income tax return and certain unitary or consolidated state income tax returns of NTELOS Holdings Corp.  However, the Company’s income taxes were calculated and provided for on an “as if separate” tax return basis. 

Equity-Based Compensation

Equity-based Compensation

The Company accounts for share-based employee compensation plans under FASB ASC 718, Stock Compensation.  Equity-based compensation expense from share-based equity awards is recorded with an offsetting increase to additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheet.  For equity awards with only service conditions, the Company recognizes compensation cost on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.

Equity awards prior to the Business Separation were granted in NTELOS stock instruments and the related expense was allocated to the Company.  Unvested NTELOS stock instruments were converted to commensurate Lumos Networks stock instruments in connection with and at the time of the Business Separation.  The fair value of the common stock options granted during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010was estimated at the respective measurement date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with assumptions related to risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, dividend yield and expected terms.

Total equity-based compensation expense related to all of the share-based awards (Note 9) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and the Company’s 401(k) matching contributions was allocated as follows:

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cost of sales and services	$	645	$	314	$	230
Customer operations		712		419		297
Corporate operations		2,555		1,650		1,002
Equity-based compensation expense	$	3,912	$	2,383	$	1,529

Future charges for equity-based compensation related to instruments outstanding at December 31, 2012 for the years 2013 through 2017 are estimated to be $2.1 million, $2.1 million, $1.2 million, $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

Pro Forma Earnings (Loss) Per Share

Pro Forma Earnings (Loss) per Share (Unaudited)

The Company computes earnings (loss) per share based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock and dilutive potential common shares equivalents outstanding.  Prior to November 1, 2011, the Company did not have any common stock outstanding and therefore, pro forma earnings (loss) per share for 2011 is calculated based on the two month period beginning November 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011 and is not applicable for 2010.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220):  Presentation of Comprehensive Income.  This ASU increases the prominence of other comprehensive income in financial statements.  Under this ASU, an entity has the option to present the components of net income and comprehensive income in either one or two consecutive financial statements.  The ASU eliminates the option in U.S. GAAP to present other comprehensive income in the statement of changes in equity.  An entity should apply this ASU retrospectively.  This ASU was effective for the Company as of January 1, 2012.  We have complied with the requirements of this pronouncement by providing a consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss), which follows the consolidated statement of operations in this annual report on Form 10-K.

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Long-Term Debt (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Sep. 08, 2011
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Post-Business Separation credit facility, maximum			$ 370,000,000
Cash paid to NTELOS Inc. associated with the Business Separation		315,000,000
Cash paid to settle intercompany debt obligation		177,100,000
Line of credit, leverage ratio	3.50
Line of credit, interest coverage ratio	8.00
Line of credit, interest coverage ratio, maximum	3.25
Leverage and interest coverage ratio	leverage ratio (as defined under the credit agreement) was 3.50:1.00 and its interest coverage ratio was 8.00:1.00
Leverage and interest coverage ratio requirements	leverage ratio not exceed 4.00:1.00 through September 30, 2014 (and 3.75:1.00 thereafter) and the interest coverage ratio not be less than 3.25:1:00
Line of credit, initial distributable amount	5,000,000
Line of credit, increase in distributable amount	12,000,000	12,000,000
Line of credit, distributable amount, increase each year	12,000,000
Line of credit, distributable amount, increase each year, free cash flow	75.00%
Line of credit, distributable amount	5,100,000
Line of credit, percentage of interest rate hedge requirement for the first three years	50.00%
Interest rate cap rate	3.00%
Fixed interest rate	0.80%
Loss on interest rate swap	1,900,000
Debt issuance costs		4,854,000
Amortized debt issuance costs	800,000
Patronage refunds percentage, cash	65.00%
Patronage refunds percentage, equity	35.00%
Patronage credits	1,000,000
Blended average interest rate	3.79%
Capital leases	2,500,000
Accumulated depreciation	1,400,000
Future minimum lease payments	1,200,000
Future minimum lease payments, 2013	400,000
Future minimum lease payments, 2014	300,000
Future minimum lease payments, 2015	300,000
Future minimum lease payments, 2016	200,000
Future minimum lease payments, thereafter	100,000
Through September 30, 2014 [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Line of credit, leverage ratio, maximum	4.00
After September 30, 2014 [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Line of credit, leverage ratio, maximum	3.75
Telephony Equipment [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Capital leases	600,000
Revolver [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Post-Business Separation credit facility, current			60,000,000
Amount outstanding, credit facility	3,500,000
Term Loan A [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Post-Business Separation credit facility, current			110,000,000
Basis spread on variable rate	3.25%
Term Loan B [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Post-Business Separation credit facility, current			200,000,000
Basis spread on variable rate	3.50%
Term Loan A And B [Member]
Schedule of Long Term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Line Items]
Maturities of long-term debt, 2013	7,500,000
Maturities of long-term debt, 2014	7,500,000
Maturities of long-term debt, 2015	13,000,000
Maturities of long-term debt, 2016	90,000,000
Maturities of long-term debt, 2017	$ 189,500,000

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Significant Accounting Policies (Finite-Lived Intangibles Assets) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross amount	$ 107,771	$ 107,439
Accumulated amortization	(72,876)	(61,742)
Customer Intangible [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross amount	103,153	103,153
Accumulated amortization	(69,734)	(59,286)
Trademarks [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross amount	3,518	3,186
Accumulated amortization	(2,042)	(1,884)
Non-Compete Agreement [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated life	2 years
Gross amount	1,100	1,100
Accumulated amortization	$ (1,100)	$ (572)
Maximum [Member] | Customer Intangible [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated life	15 years
Maximum [Member] | Trademarks [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated life	15 years
Minimum [Member] | Customer Intangible [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated life	3 years
Minimum [Member] | Trademarks [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Estimated life	6 months

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Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Income (Loss) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Consolidated Statements Of Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract]
Net Income (Loss)	$ 16,448	$ (43,878)	$ 20,943
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax:
Net unrecognized gain (loss) from defined benefit plans, net of $1,958, $(1,813) and $0 of deferred income tax liability (asset) for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively	3,076	(2,847)
Reclassification adjustment for amortization of unrealized loss from defined benefit plans included in net income, net of $693, $77 and $0 of deferred tax asset for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively	1,088	120
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax	4,164	(2,727)
Total Comprehensive Income (Loss)	20,612	(46,605)	20,943
Less: Comprehensive Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests	(108)	(52)	(119)
Comprehensive Income (Loss) Attributable to Lumos Networks Corp.	$ 20,504	$ (46,657)	$ 20,824

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Consolidated Statements Of Equity (Parenthetical) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Consolidated Statements Of Equity [Abstract]
Cash dividends declared, per share	$ 0.14	$ 0.56	$ 0.14

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Stock Plans (Summary Of Stock Options Activity) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, except Share data, unless otherwise specified	2 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011		Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Stock Plans [Abstract]
Stock options outstanding at January 1, 2011, Shares			1,348,000
Stock options outstanding at January 1, 2011, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share			$ 14.58
Converted options issued, Shares	1,463,819	[1]
Converted options issued, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share	$ 14.58	[1]
Granted during the period, Shares	21,000		863,004
Granted during the period, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share	$ 15.48		$ 9.79
Exercised during the period, Shares
Exercised during the period, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share
Forfeited during the period, Shares	(137,000)		(287,000)
Forfeited during the period, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share	$ 14.67		$ 13.95
Expired during the period, Shares			(210,000)
Expired during the period, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share			$ 14.78
Outstanding at December 31, Shares	1,348,000		1,714,000	1,348,000
Outstanding at December 31, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share	$ 14.58		$ 12.29	$ 14.58
Outstanding at December 31, 2012, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term, in years			7 years 7 months 6 days	7 years 9 months 18 days
Outstanding at December 31, 2012, Aggregate Intrinsic Value	$ 1,022		$ 1,002	$ 1,022
Exercisable at December 31, 2012, Shares			725,000
Exercisable at December 31, 2012, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share			$ 13.97
Exercisable at December 31, 2012, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term, in years			5 years 9 months 18 days
Exercisable at December 31, 2012, Aggregate Intrinsic Value			230
Total outstanding, vested and expected to vest at December 31, 2012, Shares			1,576,000
Total outstanding, vested and expected to vest at December 31, 2012, Weighted Average Exercise Price per Share			$ 12.53
Total outstanding, vested and expected to vest at December 31, 2012, Aggregate Intrinsic Value			$ 849

[1] Upon the Business Separation on October 31, 2011, all outstanding NTELOS stock options for the Company’s employees and non-employee directors were replaced with 1,463,819 Company stock options based on a formula designed to preserve the intrinsic value and fair value of the awards immediately prior to the Business Separation. The specific formula for the adjustment of the number of stock options and restricted stock and the strike price of the stock options was contained in the employee matters agreement that was executed on the date of separation. These awards had substantially the same terms and conditions as the NTELOS stock options and restricted stock awards that they replaced

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Pension Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits (Schedule Of Plan Asset Allocation) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	100.00%	100.00%
Fair Value	$ 51,675	$ 45,109
Target Allocation	100.00%
Large Cap Value [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	32.00%	34.00%
Fair Value	16,395	15,088
Large Cap Blend [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	16.00%	17.00%
Fair Value	8,169	7,536
Mid Cap Blend [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	6.00%	6.00%
Fair Value	3,149	2,846
Small Cap Blend [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	4.00%	4.00%
Fair Value	2,134	1,896
Foreign Stock - Large Cap [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	7.00%	7.00%
Fair Value	3,696	3,040
Bond [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	32.00%	29.00%
Fair Value	16,405	13,281
Cash and Cash Equivalents [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	3.00%	3.00%
Fair Value	$ 1,727	$ 1,422
Equity Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	65.00%	67.00%
Target Allocation	65.00%
Bond Securities And Cash Equivalents [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Actual Allocation	35.00%	33.00%
Target Allocation	35.00%

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Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Significant Accounting Policies[Abstract]

Schedule Of Asset Impairment Charges

(In thousands)	2011
Property, plant and equipment	$	16,032
Customer intangible		4,661
Trademark		164
Total impairment	$	20,857

Finite-Lived Intangibles Assets

		2012				2011
(Dollars in thousands)	Estimated Life	Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization		Gross Amount		Accumulated Amortization
Customer relationships	3 to 15 yrs	$	103,153	$	(69,734)	$	103,153	$	(59,286)
Trademarks	0.5 to 15 yrs		3,518		(2,042)		3,186		(1,884)
Non-compete agreement	2 yrs		1,100		(1,100)		1,100		(572)
Total		$	107,771	$	(72,876)	$	107,439	$	(61,742)

Schedule Of Future Amortization Expense

(In thousands)	Customer Relationships		Trademarks		Total
2013	$	9,665	$	159	$	9,824
2014		9,028		159		9,187
2015		4,648		159		4,807
2016		2,416		159		2,575
2017		2,097		159		2,256

Schedule Of Goodwill Activity

	2012						2011
(In thousands)	Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss		Net Goodwill		Gross Goodwill		Accumulated Impairment Loss		Net Goodwill
Beginning balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	-	$	133,735
Impairment of goodwill in the RLEC segment		-		-		-		-		(33,438)		(33,438)
Ending balance	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297	$	133,735	$	(33,438)	$	100,297

Scedule Of Changes In Asset Retirement Obligations

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Asset retirement obligations, beginning	$	1,114	$	1,070
Additional asset retirement obligations recorded, net of
adjustments in estimates		(2)		(72)
Accretion of asset retirement obligations		124		116
Asset retirement obligations, ending	$	1,236	$	1,114

Schedule Of Equity-Based Compensation Expense

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Cost of sales and services	$	645	$	314	$	230
Customer operations		712		419		297
Corporate operations		2,555		1,650		1,002
Equity-based compensation expense	$	3,912	$	2,383	$	1,529

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Commitments And Contingencies (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012		Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Sep. 30, 2012
Commitments And Contingencies [Abstract]
Rental expense for operating leases	$ 3,500,000		$ 3,800,000	$ 2,200,000
Amount committed under lease agreements, 2013	1,000,000
Amount committed under lease agreements, 2014	800,000
Amount committed under lease agreements, 2015	700,000
Amount committed under lease agreements, 2016	600,000
Amount committed under lease agreements, 2017	600,000
Amount committed under lease agreements, thereafter	1,700,000
Settlement consideration					3,000,000
Pre-tax gain associated with settlement of all outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition	5,300,000
Gain on settlement	3,035,000
Amount due from seller resulting from settlement of all outstanding matters, related to a prior acquisition	2,300,000
Amount received in legal settlement	(2,335,000)	[1]
Settlement of network access dispute	5,600,000
Network access disputes amount accrued in prior year	4,700,000
Revenue impact from settlement of network access disputes	1,500,000
Operating expense impact from settlement of network access disputes	1,000,000
Purchase commitments relating to capital expenditures	$ 6,600,000

[1] The net pre-tax gain on settlements was recognized in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the settlement of outstanding matters related to a prior acquisition and the settlement of an outstanding lawsuit (Note 13).

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Relationship With NTELOS (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011
Relationship With NTELOS [Abstract]
Transition services agreement, net expense	$ 1.5	$ 0.4

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Income Taxes

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Income Taxes [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Note 10.  Income Taxes

The components of income tax expense (benefit) are as follows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:  

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Current tax expense:
Federal	$	-	$	-	$	8,515
State		496		3,727		2,499
Total current tax expense		496		3,727		11,014
Deferred tax expense (benefit):
Federal		8,982		(3,657)		3,275
State		1,532		(4,453)		188
Total deferred tax expense (benefit)		10,514		(8,110)		3,463
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,010	$	(4,383)	$	14,477

Total income tax expense was different than an amount computed by applying the graduated statutory federal income tax rates to income before taxes. The reasons for the differences are as follows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:  

(In thousands)	2012		2011		2010
Computed tax expense (benefit) at statutory federal
rate of 35%	$	9,610	$	(16,891)	$	12,397
Nondeductible goodwill impairment charge		-		11,703		-
Nondeductible compensation		91		637		378
Noncontrolling interests		(37)		18		(42)
State income taxes (benefits), net of federal income
tax benefit (expense)		1,318		(472)		1,746
Other		28		622		(2)
Total income tax expense (benefit)	$	11,010	$	(4,383)	$	14,477

During 2012, the Company recognized a tax benefit of approximately $0.4 million in additional paid-in capital associated with the excess tax benefit realized by the Company related to stock compensation plans.  The Company recognized a tax benefit of $2.7 million in accumulated other comprehensive income associated with the adjustments to various employee benefit plan liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2012in accordance with FASB ASC 715.  The amount recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income was $1.8 million for the post Business Separation period in 2011. Additionally, on the date of the Business Separation, in connection with the transfer of these underlying employee benefit plans, $9.0 million of the related NTELOS deferred tax benefit associated with the unrealized actuarial losses from these plans was transferred to the Company. 

Net deferred income tax assets and liabilities consist of the following components as of December 31, 2012 and 2011:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Deferred income tax assets:
Retirement benefits other than pension	$	5,053	$	5,349
Pension and related plans		6,228		9,022
Net operating loss		4,346		5,020
Debt issuance and discount		-		-
Accrued expenses		4,146		2,623
Other		1,379		2,523
		21,152		24,537
Deferred income tax liabilities:
Property and equipment		67,493		57,098
Intangibles		9,615		8,643
		77,108		65,741
Net deferred income tax liability	$	55,956	$	41,204

The Company has prior year unused net operating losses (“NOLs”) totaling $10.9 million as of December 31, 2012.  The NOLs include $3.9 million that was assigned to the Company as a result of the Business Separation and are subject to an adjusted annual maximum limit due to the application of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code.  The Company’s NOLs, if not utilized to reduce taxable income in future periods, will expire in varying amounts from 2023 through 2031.  The Company believes that it is more likely than not that the results of future operations will generate sufficient taxable income to realize the deferred tax assets.

The Company recognizes interest related to unrecognized income tax benefits (“UTBs”) in interest expense and penalties on UTBs in income tax expense.  A reconciliation of the change in the UTB balance for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2010 is as follows:

(In thousands)	2012		2011
Balance at beginning of year	$	484	$	500
Additions for tax positions related to the current year		82		-
Increases (reductions) for tax positions related to prior years		43		(16)
	$	609	$	484

While the Company believes it has adequately provided for all tax positions, amounts asserted by taxing authorities could be greater than its accrued position.  Accordingly, additional provisions could be recorded in the future as revised estimates are made or the underlying matters are settled or otherwise resolved.  In general, the tax years that remain open and subject to federal and state audit examinations are 2009-2011 and 2008-2011, respectively.