Level 3 Announces Notices Of Redemption Of Tw Telecom' 5.375% Senior Notes

(RTTNews) - Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) announced that, in connection with the closing of its acquisition of tw telecom inc., tw telecom holdings, inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of tw telecom inc., called for redemption all of tw telecom holdings' outstanding 5.375% Senior Notes due 2022 and 6.375% Senior Notes due 2023.

tw telecom inc. issued its common stock to Level 3 in an "Equity Offering". tw telecom holdings is using the proceeds of that Equity Offering to redeem 35 percent of the outstanding principal amount of each issue of its 5.375% Senior Notes due 2022 and of its 6.375% Senior Notes due 2023. The redemption price for the $325.5 million aggregate principal amount of 5.375% Notes due 2022 being redeemed with the proceeds of the Equity Offering is 105.375% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the redemption date.

The redemption price for the $122.5 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% Notes due 2023 being redeemed with the proceeds of the Equity Offering is 106.375% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the redemption date.

The redemption date for those redemptions is November 30, 2014. Following those redemptions, the remaining 65 percent of the outstanding principal amount of each issue of tw telecom holdings' 5.375% Notes due 2022 ($604.5 million aggregate principal amount) and tw telecom holdings' 6.375% Senior Notes due 2023 ($227.5 million aggregate principal amount) will be redeemed on December 2, 2014, at "make-whole" prices calculated in accordance with the indentures using the rate of the comparable U.S. Treasury yield plus 50 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.

In connection with such redemptions, tw telecom holdings is discharging the indentures governing each series of notes.