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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 25, 2007.              Registration No. 33-46562
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
Washington, D.C.  20549
 
 
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to
 
 
FORM S-8
 
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
__________
 
CenturyTel, Inc.
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
 
Louisiana
72-0651161
(State or other jurisdiction
(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)
 
Identification No.)
 
 
100 CenturyTel Drive
Monroe, Louisiana71203
(Address, including zip code, of
Principal Executive Offices)
 
CenturyTel Union Retirement Savings Plan and Trust
(formerly known as the Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc.
Retirement Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees)
(Full title of the plans)
 
__________
 
 
 
Stacey W. Goff
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
CenturyTel, Inc.
100 CenturyTel Drive
Monroe, Louisiana71203
(318) 388-9500
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copy to:
 
Margaret F. Murphy
Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre, L.L.P.
201 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana70170-5100
 
 
 
 



 
DEREGISTRATION
 
In accordance with the undertakings contained in Part II of this Registration Statement No. 33-46562, the Registrant hereby files this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to remove from registration all of the securities registered under this Registration Statement (consisting of shares of common stock, preference share purchase rights and participation interests in the plan) that remain unsold on the date hereof.
 
Effective December 31, 2006, the CenturyTel, Inc. Union Retirement Savings Plan and Trust was merged into the CenturyTel Union 401(k) Plan and Trust.









SIGNATURES
 
 
 
    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Monroe, State of Louisiana, on June 22, 2007.
 
                                                                             
 
 
CenturyTel, Inc.
 
 
By: /s/Glen F. Post, III    
 
Glen F. Post, III
 
Chairman of the Board and
 
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
 
 
    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 
Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
 
             /s/Glen F. Post, III            
               Glen F. Post, III
 
 
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                          *                         
           R. Stewart Ewing, Jr.
 
 
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                /s/ Neil A. Sweasy          
               Neil A. Sweasy
 
 
Vice President and Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
        /s/ William R. Boles, Jr.           
            William R. Boles, Jr.
 
 
Director
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                                                    
                Virginia Boulet
 
 
Director
 
 
 
 
 
                                                   
               Calvin Czeschin
 
 
Director
 
 
 
 
 
                          *                         
              James B. Gardner
 
 
Director
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
             /s/W. Bruce Hanks           
              W. Bruce Hanks
 
 
Director
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                          *                         
              C. G. Melville, Jr.
 
 
Director
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                                                     
            Gregory J. McCray
 
 
Director
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                    
               Fred R. Nichols
 
 
Director
 
 
 
 
 
                          *                         
               Harvey P. Perry
 
 
Director
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                        *                         
               Jim D. Reppond
 
 
Director
 
 
June 22, 2007
 
 
                                                    
              Joseph R. Zimmel
 
 
Director
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
* 
By:/s/Glen F. Post, III    
 
Glen F. Post, III
 
Attorney-in-Fact
 
 
 
 

    
    The Plan.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the CenturyTel Retirement Committee, as administrator of the CenturyTel Union 401(k) Plan and Trust, successor by merger to the CenturyTel, Inc. Union Retirement Savings Plan and Trust, has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Monroe, State of Louisiana, on June 22, 2007.

                                                          
 
 
CENTURYTEL UNION 401(k)  PLAN AND TRUST
 
 
 
By: /s/Ivan S. Hughes        
 
Ivan S. Hughes
 
 
Member of the CenturyTel Retirement Committee