Parties to the Transaction

Windstream is a publicly-traded Delaware corporation headquartered at 4001 Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, Arkansas. PAETEC is a publicly-traded Delaware corporation with principal offices located at One PAETEC Plaza,
600 Willowbrook Office Park, Fairport, New York.

Windstream is a diversified communications and entertainment company that has four subsidiaries that are authorized to provide telecommunications services in California. They are:

· Windstream Communications, Inc. (U-6985-C);

· Windstream Nuvox, Inc. U-7214-C);

· Windstream NTI, Inc. (U-5674-C); and

· WIN-Norlight (U-7079-C).

PAETEC is a communications company which delivers communications solutions, through its subsidiaries, primarily to business customers in 49 states and the District of Columbia. Its subsidiaries that are affected by this transaction are:

· PaeTec Communications, Inc. (U-6097-C);

· McLeodUSA Telecommunications Services, LLC
(U-5712-C);

· Talk America, Inc. (U-5535-C); and

· LDMI Telecommunications, Inc. (U-5837-C).

The Joint Applicants refer to these entities as the PAETEC Regulated Entities, and we will do so also for purposes of ease of reference and clarity.

Peach Merger Sub, Inc. is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Windstream created for purposes of the merger.