Long-Term Debt

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2025

Long-Term Debt [Abstract]

Long-Term Debt

(9) Long-Term Debt:

The activity in long-term debt is summarized as follows:

			For the six months ended ‎June 30, 2025
			Principal
	January 1,		Payments		New		June 30,
($ in millions)	2025		and Retirements		Borrowings		2025
Secured debt issued by Frontier	$	8,436	$	(3)	$	-	$	8,433
Secured debt issued by subsidiaries		2,383		-		330		2,713
Unsecured debt issued by subsidiaries		750		-		-		750
Principal outstanding	$	11,569	$	(3)	$	330	$	11,896
Less: Debt issuance costs		(89)						(96)
Less: Current portion		(10)						(10)
Less: Debt premium / (discount)		(44)						(38)
Plus: Unamortized fair value adjustments (1)		125						108
Total Long-term debt	$	11,551					$	11,860

⁽¹⁾Upon emergence, we adjusted the carrying value of our debt to fair value. The adjustment consisted of the elimination of the existing unamortized debt issuance costs and unamortized discounts and recording a balance of $236 million as a fair value adjustment. The fair value accounting adjustment is being amortized into interest expense using the effective interest method.

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Additional information regarding our senior unsecured debt, senior secured debt, and subsidiary debt at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 is as follows:

	June 30, 2025			December 31, 2024
	Principal		Interest	Principal		Interest
($ in millions)	Outstanding		Rate	Outstanding		Rate
Secured debt issued by Frontier
Term loan due 7/1/2031	$	1,020	6.792% (Variable)	$	1,023	8.763% (Variable)
First lien notes due 10/15/2027		1,150	5.875%		1,150	5.875%
First lien notes due 5/1/2028		1,550	5.000%		1,550	5.000%
First lien notes due 5/15/2030		1,200	8.750%		1,200	8.750%
First lien notes due 3/15/2031		750	8.625%		750	8.625%
Second lien notes due 5/1/2029		1,000	6.750%		1,000	6.750%
Second lien notes due 11/1/2029		750	5.875%		750	5.875%
Second lien notes due 1/15/2030		1,000	6.000%		1,000	6.000%
IDRB due 5/1/2030		13	6.200%		13	6.200%
Total secured debt issued by Frontier		8,433			8,436
Secured debt issued by subsidiaries
Debentures due 11/15/2031 (2)		47	8.500%		47	8.500%
Series 2023-1 revenue term notes Class A-2 due 7/20/2028		1,119	6.600%		1,119	6.600%
Series 2023-1 revenue term notes Class B due 7/20/2028		155	8.300%		155	8.300%
Series 2023-1 revenue term notes Class C due 7/20/2028		312	11.500%		312	11.500%
Series 2024-1 revenue term notes Class A-2 due 5/20/2031		530	6.190%		530	6.190%
Series 2024-1 revenue term notes Class B due 5/30/2031		73	7.020%		73	7.020%
Series 2024-1 revenue term notes Class C due 5/20/2031		147	11.160%		147	11.160%
DDTL Facility due 12/31/2029		330	6.069% (Variable)		-	-
Total secured debt issued by subsidiaries		2,713			2,383
Unsecured debt issued by subsidiaries
Debentures due 5/15/2027		200	6.750%		200	6.750%
Debentures due 2/1/2028		300	6.860%		300	6.860%
Debentures due 2/15/2028		200	6.730%		200	6.730%
Debentures due 10/15/2029		50	8.400%		50	8.400%
Total unsecured debt issued by subsidiaries		750			750
Principal outstanding	$	11,896	6.801% (1)	$	11,569	6.996% (1)

⁽¹⁾Interest rate represents a weighted average of the stated interest rates of multiple issuances. The anticipated repayment date of July 2028 is used for the Series 2023-1 Revenue Term Notes, classes A-2, B, and C when calculating the weighted average, and the anticipated repayment date of May 2031 is used for the Series 2024-1 Revenue Term Notes, classes A-2, B, and C when calculating the weighted average.

⁽²⁾ $47 million principal amount in remaining debt of our subsidiary Frontier Southwest Incorporated which was defeased in connection with the closing of the August 2023 securitization transaction.

Summaries of our various credit and debt agreements, including our credit agreements and the indentures for our senior secured first lien and senior secured second lien notes, and the indenture for the secured fiber network revenue term notes are contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K including agreements filed as exhibits thereto.

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Credit Facilities and Term Loans

Revolving Facility

Subject to customary exceptions and thresholds, the security package under the Revolving Facility includes pledges of the equity interests in certain of our subsidiaries, which is currently limited to certain specified pledged entities and substantially all personal property of Frontier Video, which same assets also secure our First Lien Notes. The Revolving Facility is guaranteed by the same subsidiaries that guarantee the First Lien Notes. After giving effect to approximately $167 million of letters of credit outstanding, we had $758 million of available borrowing capacity under the Revolving Facility as of June 30, 2025.

The Revolving Facility includes customary negative covenants for loan agreements of this type, including covenants limiting Frontier and our restricted subsidiaries’ (other than certain covenants therein which are limited to subsidiary guarantors) ability to, among other things, incur additional indebtedness, create liens on assets, make investments, loans or advances, engage in mergers, consolidations, sales of assets and acquisitions, pay dividends and distributions and make payments in respect of certain material payment subordinated indebtedness, in each case subject to customary exceptions for loan agreements of this type.

The Revolving Facility also includes certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants, and events of default, including, but not limited to, payment defaults, breaches of representations and warranties, covenant defaults, certain events under ERISA, change of control or damage to a material portion of the collateral.

On May 22, 2024, Frontier Communications Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Frontier (“Frontier Holdings”), entered into an amendment (the “2024 Credit Agreement Amendment”) to its existing credit agreement that governs its Revolving Facility which, among other things, (i) increased the aggregate amount of certain additional obligations permitted to be outstanding, including first lien debt, and securitization and receivables facilities, and non-loan party debt, from $2,500 million to $5,500 million; provided that at least 40% of the net available cash from the first $1,915 million in securitization and receivables facilities received after May 22, 2024 (excluding net available cash received from drawings with respect to $500 million of commitments of variable funding notes) is applied to prepay the Borrower’s existing term loans and other applicable indebtedness, and 100% of the net available cash from securitization and receivables facilities in excess thereof (up to the cap of $5,500 million) shall be applied to prepay the Borrower’s existing term loans and other applicable indebtedness; (ii) limited future securitizations and receivables facilities to assets located in Texas and/or Florida; and (iii) amended the financial maintenance covenant for the benefit of the Revolving Facility by, commencing with the period ending June 30, 2024, (a) including outstanding securitization and receivables facilities in the calculation of indebtedness and (b) increasing the maximum financial maintenance covenant leverage ratio thereunder to 5.25:1.00, with a step-down to 4.75:1.00 commencing with the period ending March 31, 2027, and continuing thereafter. The 2024 Credit Agreement Amendment became effective on July 1, 2024, when $402 million of net available cash from the securitization closing on such date was applied to prepay existing term loans.

On July 30, 2024, Frontier Holdings entered into a further amendment to its existing credit agreement that governs its Revolving Facility, pursuant to which $50 million of revolving credit commitments of a terminating lender were replaced by $75 million of commitments from a new lender, increasing overall capacity from $900 million to $925 million. The maturity date of the Revolving Facility will be the earliest of (a) April 30, 2028, (b) 91 days prior to the maturity of the term loan facility, (c) unless such notes have been repaid and/or redeemed in full, the date that is 91 days prior to the stated maturity date of our 5.875% First Lien Notes due 2027, and (d) unless such notes have been repaid and/or redeemed in full, the date that is 91 days prior to the stated maturity date of our 5.000% First Lien Notes due 2028.

On March 18, 2025, Frontier Holdings entered into a further amendment to its existing credit agreement that governs its Revolving Facility which, among other things, (x) (i) lowers the margin over adjusted Term SOFR with respect to the Revolving Facility from 3.50% to 2.50% and (ii) lowers the margin over the alternative base rate with respect to the Revolving Facility from 2.50% to 1.50%, (y) revises the prepayment requirement with respect to the Term Facility to replace the $500 million prepayment exception for the funding of variable funding

notes with a $500 million prepayment exception for funding pursuant to a qualified securitization facility and (z) provides for an additional prepayment exception with respect to the Term Facility for up to $135 million, subject to certain requirements and limitations.

Term Loan Facility

On January 14, 2025, Frontier Holdings entered into an amendment to its existing Term Loan Facility, which, among other things, (x) further lowered the margin over adjusted Term SOFR with respect to the Term Loan from 3.50% to 2.50% and (y) further lowered the margin over the alternative base rate with respect to the Term loan from 2.50% to 1.50%. On July 1, 2024, Frontier Holdings entered into an amendment to the Term Loan Facility which, among other things, extended the maturity date of $1.025 billion of the Term Loan to July 1, 2031 and eliminated the credit spread adjustment previously applicable to the Term Loan.

On March 18, 2025, Frontier Holdings entered into a further amendment to its existing credit agreement as described under “Revolving Facility” above.

Subject to certain exceptions and thresholds, the security package under the Term Loan Facility includes pledges of the equity interests in certain of our subsidiaries, which as of the issue date is limited to certain specified pledged entities and substantially all personal property of Frontier Video Services Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Frontier Video”), which same assets also secure the First Lien Notes (as defined below). The Term Loan Facility is guaranteed by the same subsidiaries that guarantee the First Lien Notes.

The Term Loan Facility includes customary negative covenants for loan agreements of this type, including covenants limiting Frontier and our restricted subsidiaries’ (other than certain covenants therein which are limited to subsidiary guarantors) ability to, among other things, incur additional indebtedness, create liens on assets, make investments, loans or advances, engage in mergers, consolidations, sales of assets and acquisitions, pay dividends and distributions and make payments in respect of certain material payment subordinated indebtedness, in each case subject to customary exceptions for loan agreements of this type.

The Term Loan Facility also includes certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants and events of default, including, but not limited to, payment defaults, breaches of representations and warranties, covenant defaults, certain events under ERISA, upon the conversion date, unstayed judgments in favor of a third-party involving an aggregate liability in excess of a certain threshold, change of control, upon the conversion date, specified governmental actions having a material adverse effect or condemnation or damage to a material portion of the collateral.

Warehouse Facilities

On December 31, 2024 (the “Warehouse Effective Date”), Frontier Tampa Bay FL Fiber 1 LLC (the “Borrower”) and Frontier SPE FL Guarantor LLC, as guarantor (the “Warehouse Guarantor”), each a subsidiary of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (the “Parent”), entered into a credit agreement (the “Warehouse Credit Agreement”) with certain lenders that establishes and governs certain credit facilities (the “Warehouse Facilities”). The Warehouse Facilities include:

A delayed draw term loan facility (the “DDTL Facility”) of $1.5 billion, less commitments reserved for letters of credit (the “Maximum DDTL Amount”) and borrowed amounts. The DDTL Facility is available from the Warehouse Effective Date until the earlier of the full draw of the Maximum DDTL Amount or the third anniversary of the Warehouse Effective Date (such earlier date, the “DDTL Commitment Expiration Date”). To draw amounts under the DDTL Facility, the Borrower must comply with a total leverage ratio of no more than 6.75:1.00 and a debt service coverage ratio of at least 2.00:1.00. Additionally, no defaults or other specified conditions may be continuing, and all conditions precedent for each extension of credit must be satisfied. The Borrower must repay all outstanding amounts under the DDTL Facility due on the fifth anniversary of the Warehouse Effective Date. The interest rate for the DDTL Facility is either, at the

sole discretion of the Warehouse Borrower, for Base Rate Loans, (a) the highest of (i) the “U.S. Prime Lending Rate” published by the Wall Street Journal, (ii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate (as agreed to in good faith by the parties to the Warehouse Credit Agreement) plus 0.50%, and (iii) one-month Term SOFR plus 1.00% per annum, plus (b) 0.75%, with step-ups from and after the third anniversary, or, for SOFR Loans, Term SOFR plus 1.75%, with step-ups from and after the third anniversary. Optional prepayments are allowed without fees or penalties, subject to notice requirements. A portion of the DDTL Facility, up to $200 million, is reserved as a letter of credit sublimit.

An incremental term loan facility (the “Incremental Term Loan”) under which the Warehouse Borrower has the right to increase the commitments under the DDTL Facility by up to $750 million after the DDTL Commitment Expiration Date. No lender is required to increase its commitment. The Warehouse Borrower must comply with all representations and warranties, and the terms of any Incremental Term Loan must be identical to those of the DDTL Facilities, including maturity, priority of liens, prepayment terms, and pricing.

In the event of default, an additional 2.00% per annum will be applied to overdue amounts. Fees include commitment fees on undrawn portions, letter of credit fees, and fronting fees. The Warehouse Facilities are secured by first-priority pledges of equity interests and security interests in substantially all owned tangible and intangible assets of the Warehouse Borrower and its guarantors, which consist of the Warehouse Borrower’s fiber network assets and associated customer contracts in certain neighborhoods in the Tampa, Florida area.

Fiber Network Revenue Term Notes

On July 1, 2024, Frontier Issuer LLC (“Frontier Issuer”), a limited-purpose, bankruptcy remote, subsidiary of Frontier completed the issuance of $750 million aggregate principal amount of secured fiber network revenue term notes consisting of $530 million 6.19% Series 2024-1, Class A-2 term notes, $73 million 7.02% Series 2024-1, Class B term notes and $147 million 11.16% Series 2024-1, Class C term notes, each with an anticipated repayment term of seven years (collectively, the “Notes”). Collectively, the Notes have a weighted average yield of approximately 7.4%. The Notes are secured by certain of Frontier’s fiber assets and associated customer contracts in the North Texas area, in addition to those in the Dallas Metropolitan area contributed in the Series 2023-1 Notes offering. The assets of Frontier Issuer, AssetCo and the other securitization entities are available to satisfy only the obligations owed under the Fiber Term Notes and are not available to any other creditors of the Company or its affiliates. The Fiber Term Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of August 8, 2023 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Series 2023-1 Supplement thereto, dated as of August 8, 2023 (the “Series 2023-1 Supplement”), in each case entered into by and among the Issuer, Frontier Dallas TX Fiber 1 LLC (“AssetCo”) and Citibank, N.A. as the indenture trustee (the “Trustee”).

Security	Issue Date	Amount Outstanding		Interest Rate (1)	Anticipated Repayment Date	Final Maturity Date
Series 2023-1, Class A-2 term notes	August 8, 2023	$	1,119,000,000	6.60%	July 20, 2028	August 20, 2053
Series 2023-1, Class B term notes	August 8, 2023	$	155,000,000	8.30%	July 20, 2028	August 20, 2053
Series 2023-1, Class C term notes	August 8, 2023	$	312,000,000	11.50%	July 20, 2028	August 20, 2053
Series 2024-1, Class A-2 term notes	July 1, 2024	$	530,000,000	6.19%	May 20, 2031	June 20, 2054
Series 2024-1, Class B term notes	July 1, 2024	$	73,000,000	7.02%	May 20, 2031	June 20, 2054
Series 2024-1, Class C term notes	July 1, 2024	$	147,000,000	11.16%	May 20, 2031	June 20, 2054

⁽¹⁾ If Frontier Issuer has not repaid or refinanced any Class of Notes of a Series of Fiber Term Notes prior to the Anticipated Repayment Date, additional interest will accrue thereon in an amount equal to the greater of (i) 5.00% per annum and (ii) the excess amount, if any, by which the sum of the following exceeds the interest rate for such note: (A) the yield to maturity (adjusted to a “mortgage-equivalent basis” pursuant to the standards and practices of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association) on the ARD for such note of the United States Treasury Security having a remaining term closest to 10 years plus (B) 5.00% plus (C) the post-ARD note spread applicable to such Note.

While the Fiber Term Notes are outstanding, scheduled payments of interest are required to be made on the Notes on a monthly basis. From and after the ARD, principal payments will also be required to be made on the Notes on a monthly basis. No principal payments will be due on the Fiber Term Notes prior to the ARD, unless certain rapid amortization or acceleration triggers are activated.

Secured Fiber Network Revenue Variable Funding Notes

On July 1, 2024, Frontier amended its Secured Fiber Network Revenue Variable Funding Notes, Series 2023-2, Class A-1, facility to reduce the available Variable Funding Notes commitment amount to $0, with the ability to increase the commitment amount up to $500 million in the future upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, and to extend the maturity date to June 2028.

In connection with entering into the DDTL Facility, the Company permanently reduced the Series 2023-2 Class A-1 Notes Maximum Principal Amount to $0, correspondingly reduced the Variable Funding Notes commitment amount to $0 and terminated the Series 2023-2 Class A-1 Note Purchase Agreement, in each case effective as of December 31, 2024.