FairPoint Communications to Participate in the Wells Fargo Tech, Media & Telecom Conference and the Morgan Stanley Leveraged Finance Conference

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 02, 2016 -- FairPoint Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRP), a leading communications provider, today announced it will participate in two investor conferences in November, 2016.

The company will host one-on-one meetings with investors at the 2016 Wells Fargo Tech, Media & Telecom Conference in New York on November 9.  Representing FairPoint will be CEO Paul Sunu and Paul Taaffe, vice president of corporate communications and development.

In addition, the company will present at the Morgan Stanley Leveraged Finance Conference in New Orleans on November 10 at 10:15 a.m. CST. Representing FairPoint will be CFO Karen Turner, Vice President and Treasurer Katherine Jakubowski, and Paul Taaffe, vice president of corporate communications and development.  FairPoint will also be hosting one-on-one meetings with investors.

About FairPoint Communications, Inc.
FairPoint Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:FRP) provides advanced data, voice and video technologies to single and multi-site businesses, public and private institutions, consumers, wireless companies and wholesale resellers in 17 states. Leveraging an owned, fiber-based Ethernet network — with more than 21,000 route miles of fiber, including approximately 17,000 route miles of fiber in northern New England — FairPoint has the network coverage, scalable bandwidth and transport capacity to support enhanced applications, including the next generation of mobile and cloud-based communications, such as small cell wireless backhaul technology, voice over IP, data center colocation services, managed services and disaster recovery. For more information, visit www.FairPoint.com.

Investor Relations Contact:
Paul Taaffe 
(704) 227-3623 
[email protected]