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      No. 333-___________</font></div>
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STATES</font></div>
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AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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D.C.&#160;&#160;20549</font></div>
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S-8</font></div>
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STATEMENT</font></div>
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SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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INC.</font></div>
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name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div>
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      or organization)</font></div>
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      Employer Identification No.)</font></div>
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              <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">100
      CenturyTel Drive</font></div>
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      Louisiana</font></div>
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&amp; Restated Embarq Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive Plan</font></div>
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Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan</font></div>
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title of the plans)</font></div>
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W. Goff</font></div>
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Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel</font></div>
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Inc.</font></div>
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CenturyTel Drive</font></div>
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Louisiana&#160;&#160;71203</font></div>
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388-9500</font></div>
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address, including zip code, and telephone number,</font></div>
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area code, of agent for service)</font></div>
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C. Simoneaux</font></div>
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Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carr&#232;re &amp; Den&#232;gre, L.L.P.</font></div>
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St. Charles Avenue</font></div>
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by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer&#8221; and &#8220;smaller
reporting company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</font></div>
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      &amp; Restated Embarq Corporation </font></div>
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      2006 Equity Incentive Plan</font></div>
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      Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive Plan</font></div>
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      </font>Upon a stock split, stock dividend, or similar transaction in the
      future during the effectiveness of this Registration Statement and
      involving our Common Stock, the number of shares registered shall be
      automatically increased to cover the additional securities in accordance
      with Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
      &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;).</font></div>
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      </font>Represents shares of our Common Stock issuable under outstanding
      stock options granted under the Amended and Restated Embarq Corporation
      2006 Equity Incentive Plan (the &#8220;2006 Plan&#8221;), which we assumed in
      connection with the merger (the &#8220;Merger&#8221;) of the Registrant and Embarq
      Corporation.&#160;&#160;The Merger closed on July 1, 2009.</font></div>
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      outstanding restricted stock units granted under the 2006 Plan and the
      Embarq Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the &#8220;2008 Plan&#8221;), which we
      assumed in connection with the Merger, and (ii) up to 20,550,000 shares
      remaining available for future grant under the 2008 Plan, which we assumed
      in connection with the Merger.</font></div>
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      </font>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration
      fee as follows:&#160;&#160;(a) with respect to shares issuable under
      outstanding stock options being assumed, under Rule 457(h) under the
      Securities Act, on the basis of the weighted average exercise price of the
      outstanding options on July 1, 2009; and (b) with respect to (i) shares
      issuable under restricted stock units being assumed and (ii) the shares
      remaining available for issuance under the 2008 Plan, under Rule 457(c)
      under the Securities Act, on the basis of the average of the high and low
      price per share of our Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on June
      29, 2009.</font></div>
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      S-4 (File No. 333-155521) filed under the Securities Act with the
      Securities and Exchange Commission on November 20, 2008 and as amended by
      Amendment No. 1 filed on December 22, 2008; therefore, these shares are
      being carried forward from that prior Registration
      Statement.&#160;&#160;Accordingly, no additional filing fee is
      required.</font></div>
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I</font></div>
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REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</font></div>
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required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the applicable prospectus is
omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;).</font></div>
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II</font></div>
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REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></div>
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3.&#160;&#160;&#160;Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</font></div>
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following documents, which have been filed by CenturyTel, Inc. with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;), are incorporated herein
by reference:</font></div>
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latest Annual Report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;);</font></div>
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other reports filed by us pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report referred to in
(a); and</font></div>
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description of our Common Stock included in Amendment No. 3 to our Registration
Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on the date hereof under the
Exchange Act.</font></div>
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documents filed by us with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14,
and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates
that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold shall, except to the extent otherwise provided by
Regulation S-K or any other rule promulgated by the Commission, be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof
from the date of filing of such documents.&#160;&#160;Any statements contained
in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained
herein or in any other document subsequently filed or incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such statement.&#160;&#160;Any statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</font></div>
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applicable.</font></div>
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applicable.</font></div>
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83 of the Louisiana Business Corporation Law provides in part that we may
indemnify any of our directors, officers, employees or agents against expenses
(including attorneys&#8217; fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement
actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with any action,
suit or proceeding to which he or she is or was a party or is threatened to be
made a party (including any action by us or in our right) if such action arises
out of his or her acts on our behalf and he or she acted in good faith not
opposed to our best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was
unlawful.&#160;&#160;Under Section 83, we may also advance expenses to the
indemnified party provided that he or she agrees to repay those amounts if it is
later determined that he or she is not entitled to
indemnification.&#160;&#160;Under Section 83, we also have the power to obtain
and maintain insurance, or to create a form of self-insurance, on behalf of any
person who is or was acting for us, regardless of whether we have the legal
authority to indemnify the insured person against such liability.</font></div>
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Article II, Section 10 of our by-laws, which we refer to as the indemnification
by-law, we are obligated to indemnify our current or former directors and
officers, except that if any of our current or former directors or officers are
held liable under or settle any derivative suit, we are permitted, but not
obligated to, indemnify the indemnified person to the fullest extent permitted
by Louisiana law.</font></div>
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articles of incorporation authorize us to enter into contracts with directors
and officers providing for indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by
law.&#160;&#160;We have authorized indemnification contracts providing
contracting directors or officers the procedural and substantive rights to
indemnification set forth in the indemnification by-law.&#160;&#160;We refer to
these contracts as indemnification contracts.&#160;&#160;The right to
indemnification provided by an indemnification contract applies to all covered
claims, whether such claims arose before or after the effective date of the
contract.</font></div>
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maintain an insurance policy covering the liability of our directors and
officers for actions taken in their official capacity.&#160;&#160;The
indemnification contracts provide that, to the extent insurance is reasonably
available, we will maintain comparable insurance coverage for each contracting
party as long as he or she serves as a director or officer and thereafter for so
long as he or she is subject to possible personal liability for actions taken in
such capacities.</font></div>
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foregoing is only a general summary of certain aspects of Louisiana law and our
articles of incorporation and by-laws dealing with indemnification of directors
and officers, and does not purport to be complete.&#160;&#160;It is qualified in
its entirety by reference to (i) the relevant provisions of the Louisiana
Business Corporation Law and (ii) our articles of incorporation, by-laws, and
form of indemnification contract, each of which is on file with the
Commission.</font></div>
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8.&#160;&#160;&#160;Exhibits.</font></div>
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      of Attorney pursuant to which this Registration Statement has been signed
      on behalf of certain of our officers and directors (included in the
      signature pages of this Registration
Statement).</font></div>
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Plan.</font></div>
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undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:</font></div>
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during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
amendment to this Registration Statement:</font></div>
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include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act;</font></div>
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reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
in the information set forth in this Registration
Statement.&#160;&#160;Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in
volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered
would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or
high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent
change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the &#8220;Calculation of
Registration Fee&#8221; table in the effective Registration Statement;</font></div>
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include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in this Registration Statement;</font></div>
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paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to
be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant
pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.</font></div>
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the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.</font></div>
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from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.</font></div>
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undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant&#8217;s annual
report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.</font></div>
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as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.&#160;&#160;In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.</font></div>
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to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Monroe,
State of Louisiana, on July 1, 2009.</font></div>
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MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below constitutes
and appoints Glen F. Post, III, R. Stewart Ewing, Jr., and Stacey W. Goff, or
any one of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power
of substitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting until
such attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.</font></div>
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Unassociated Document
As
      filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1,
      2009.
Registration
      No. 333-___________
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C.  20549
_______________
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
under
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
_______________
CENTURYTEL,
INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Louisiana
(State
      or other jurisdiction of
incorporation
      or organization)
72-0651161
(I.R.S.
      Employer Identification No.)
100
      CenturyTel Drive
Monroe,
      Louisiana
(Address
      of Principal Executive Offices)
71203
(Zip
      Code)
Amended
& Restated Embarq Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive Plan
Embarq
Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full
title of the plans)
_______________
Stacey
W. Goff
Executive
Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel
CenturyTel,
Inc.
100
CenturyTel Drive
Monroe,
Louisiana  71203
(318)
388-9500
(Name,
address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including
area code, of agent for service)
Copy
to:
Kelly
C. Simoneaux
Jones,
Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre, L.L.P.
201
St. Charles Avenue
New
Orleans, Louisiana  70170-5100
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller
reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large
accelerated
filer            [X]                                                                                                                                                                                               
Accelerated filer[   ]
Non-accelerated
filer              [   ]
(Do not check if a smaller reporting
company)                                                                                                             
Smaller reporting company[   ]
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
      of securities to be registered
Amount
      (number of
shares)
      to be registered
(1)
Proposed
      maximum
offering
      price per share
(4)
Proposed
      maximum
aggregate
      offering price
(4)
Amount
      of
registration
      fee
(5)
Common Stock
(par value
      $1 per share)
Amended
      & Restated Embarq Corporation
2006 Equity Incentive Plan
Embarq
      Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan and the Amended and Restated Embarq
      Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive Plan
5,177,337
(2)
22,877,372
(3)
$37.18
$31.65
$192,493,390
$724,068,824
$10,741
$40,404
Total
28,054,709
$916,562,214
$51,145
(1)
Upon a stock split, stock dividend, or similar transaction in the
      future during the effectiveness of this Registration Statement and
      involving our Common Stock, the number of shares registered shall be
      automatically increased to cover the additional securities in accordance
      with Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
      "Securities Act").
(2)
Represents shares of our Common Stock issuable under outstanding
      stock options granted under the Amended and Restated Embarq Corporation
      2006 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2006 Plan"), which we assumed in
      connection with the merger (the "Merger") of the Registrant and Embarq
      Corporation.  The Merger closed on July 1, 2009.
(3)
Represents (i) 2,327,372 shares of our Common Stock issuable under
      outstanding restricted stock units granted under the 2006 Plan and the
      Embarq Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2008 Plan"), which we
      assumed in connection with the Merger, and (ii) up to 20,550,000 shares
      remaining available for future grant under the 2008 Plan, which we assumed
      in connection with the Merger.
(4)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration
      fee as follows:  (a) with respect to shares issuable under
      outstanding stock options being assumed, under Rule 457(h) under the
      Securities Act, on the basis of the weighted average exercise price of the
      outstanding options on July 1, 2009; and (b) with respect to (i) shares
      issuable under restricted stock units being assumed and (ii) the shares
      remaining available for issuance under the 2008 Plan, under Rule 457(c)
      under the Securities Act, on the basis of the average of the high and low
      price per share of our Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on June
      29, 2009.
(5)
These shares were included in our Registration Statement on Form
      S-4 (File No. 333-155521) filed under the Securities Act with the
      Securities and Exchange Commission on November 20, 2008 and as amended by
      Amendment No. 1 filed on December 22, 2008; therefore, these shares are
      being carried forward from that prior Registration
      Statement.  Accordingly, no additional filing fee is
      required.
PART
I
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Information
required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the applicable prospectus is
omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
PART
II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The
following documents, which have been filed by CenturyTel, Inc. with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), are incorporated herein
by reference:
(a)           Our
latest Annual Report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act");
(b)           All
other reports filed by us pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report referred to in
(a); and
(c)           The
description of our Common Stock included in Amendment No. 3 to our Registration
Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on the date hereof under the
Exchange Act.
All
documents filed by us with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14,
and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates
that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold shall, except to the extent otherwise provided by
Regulation S-K or any other rule promulgated by the Commission, be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof
from the date of filing of such documents.  Any statements contained
in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained
herein or in any other document subsequently filed or incorporated by reference
herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item
4.   Description of Securities.
Not
applicable.
Item
5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
applicable.
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Item
6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section
83 of the Louisiana Business Corporation Law provides in part that we may
indemnify any of our directors, officers, employees or agents against expenses
(including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement
actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with any action,
suit or proceeding to which he or she is or was a party or is threatened to be
made a party (including any action by us or in our right) if such action arises
out of his or her acts on our behalf and he or she acted in good faith not
opposed to our best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was
unlawful.  Under Section 83, we may also advance expenses to the
indemnified party provided that he or she agrees to repay those amounts if it is
later determined that he or she is not entitled to
indemnification.  Under Section 83, we also have the power to obtain
and maintain insurance, or to create a form of self-insurance, on behalf of any
person who is or was acting for us, regardless of whether we have the legal
authority to indemnify the insured person against such liability.
Under
Article II, Section 10 of our by-laws, which we refer to as the indemnification
by-law, we are obligated to indemnify our current or former directors and
officers, except that if any of our current or former directors or officers are
held liable under or settle any derivative suit, we are permitted, but not
obligated to, indemnify the indemnified person to the fullest extent permitted
by Louisiana law.
Our
articles of incorporation authorize us to enter into contracts with directors
and officers providing for indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by
law.  We have authorized indemnification contracts providing
contracting directors or officers the procedural and substantive rights to
indemnification set forth in the indemnification by-law.  We refer to
these contracts as indemnification contracts.  The right to
indemnification provided by an indemnification contract applies to all covered
claims, whether such claims arose before or after the effective date of the
contract.
We
maintain an insurance policy covering the liability of our directors and
officers for actions taken in their official capacity.  The
indemnification contracts provide that, to the extent insurance is reasonably
available, we will maintain comparable insurance coverage for each contracting
party as long as he or she serves as a director or officer and thereafter for so
long as he or she is subject to possible personal liability for actions taken in
such capacities.
The
foregoing is only a general summary of certain aspects of Louisiana law and our
articles of incorporation and by-laws dealing with indemnification of directors
and officers, and does not purport to be complete.  It is qualified in
its entirety by reference to (i) the relevant provisions of the Louisiana
Business Corporation Law and (ii) our articles of incorporation, by-laws, and
form of indemnification contract, each of which is on file with the
Commission.
Item
7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
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Item
8.   Exhibits.
5
Opinion
      of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre,
      L.L.P.
23.1
Consent
      of KPMG LLP.
23.2
Consent
      of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre, L.L.P.
      (included in Exhibit 5).
24
Powers
      of Attorney pursuant to which this Registration Statement has been signed
      on behalf of certain of our officers and directors (included in the
      signature pages of this Registration
Statement).
99.1
Amended
      & Restated Embarq Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive
    Plan.
99.2
Embarq
      Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive
Plan.
Item
9.   Undertakings.
(a)           The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
To file,
during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i)        To
include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act;
(ii)       To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
in the information set forth in this Registration
Statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in
volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered
would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or
high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the
aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent
change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of
Registration Fee" table in the effective Registration Statement;
(iii)      To
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in this Registration Statement;
Provided, however
, that
paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to
be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant
pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
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(2)
That, for
the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
(3)
To remove
from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
(b)           The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual
report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
(c)           Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Monroe,
State of Louisiana, on July 1, 2009.
CENTURYTEL,
      INC.
By:
/s/ Glen F.
      Post, III
Glen
      F. Post, III
President,
      Chief Executive Officer,
and
      Director
POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL
MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below constitutes
and appoints Glen F. Post, III, R. Stewart Ewing, Jr., and Stacey W. Goff, or
any one of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power
of substitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to this Registration Statement, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting until
such attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on July 1,
2009.
Signature
Title
/s/ Glen F. Post,
      III
Glen
      F. Post, III
President,
      Chief Executive Officer,
and
      Director
(
Principal Executive
      Officer
)
/s/ R. Stewart Ewing,
      Jr.
R.
      Stewart Ewing, Jr.
Executive
      Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Assistant
      Secretary
(
Principal Financial
      Officer
)
/s/ Neil A.
      Sweasy
Neil
      A. Sweasy
Vice
      President and Controller
(
Principal Accounting
      Officer
)
/s/ William A.
      Owens
William
      A. Owens
Chairman
      of the Board
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/s/ Thomas A.
      Gerke
Thomas
      A. Gerke
Vice
      Chairman
/s/ Harvey P.
      Perry
Harvey
      P. Perry
Vice
      Chairman
/s/ Virginia
      Boulet
Virginia
      Boulet
Director
/s/ Peter C.
      Brown
Peter
      C. Brown
Director
/s/ Steven A.
      Davis
Steven
      A. Davis
Director
/s/ Richard A.
      Gephardt
Richard
      A. Gephardt
Director
/s/ W. Bruce
      Hanks
W.
      Bruce Hanks
Director
/s/ Gregory J.
      McCray
Gregory
      J. McCray
Director
/s/ C. G. Melville,
      Jr.
C.
      G. Melville, Jr.
Director
/s/ Fred R.
      Nichols
Fred
      R. Nichols
Director
/s/ Stephanie M.
      Shern
Stephanie
      M. Shern
Director
/s/ Laurie A.
      Siegel
Laurie
      A. Siegel
Director
/s/ Joseph R.
      Zimmel
Joseph
      R. Zimmel
Director
S-2
EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description of
Exhibits
5
Opinion
      of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre,
      L.L.P.
23.1
Consent
      of KPMG LLP.
23.2
Consent
      of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre, L.L.P.
      (included in Exhibit 5).
24
Powers
      of Attorney pursuant to which this Registration Statement has been signed
      on behalf of certain of our officers and directors (included in the
      signature pages of this Registration
Statement).
99.1
Amended
      & Restated Embarq Corporation 2006 Equity Incentive
    Plan.
99.2
Embarq
      Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive
Plan.