{"url_path":"/sec/unit/8-k/2026-06-05/item-8-01","section_key":"item-8-01","section_title":"Item 8.01 **","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-06-05","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2020795/0000950103-26-008608-index.html","accession_number":"0000950103-26-008608","cik":"0002020795","ticker":"UNIT","issuer_name":"Uniti Group Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2020795/0000950103-26-008608-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0002020795","primary_entity_name":"Uniti Group Inc."},"word_count":770,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 8.01**\n**Other Events**\n\n \n\nOn June 5, 2026, Uniti Group Inc.\n(“Uniti” or the “Company”) issued a press release to announce the pricing of $1,140.71 million aggregate\nprincipal amount of secured fiber network revenue term notes (the “Notes”) by its subsidiary, Kinetic ABS Issuer LLC\n(the “Issuer”), consisting of $805,210,000 5.834% Series 2026-2, Class A-2 term notes, $134,200,000 6.224% Series\n2026-2, Class B term notes and $201,300,000 7.536% Series 2026-2, Class C term notes, each with an anticipated repayment date in\nJune 2033 (collectively, the “Notes”). Collectively, the Notes have a weighted average coupon rate of approximately\n6.180%. The Notes are expected to be secured by certain residential fiber network assets and related customer agreements in the\nStates of Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Oklahoma. The Notes will not be\nregistered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities laws, and may\nnot be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration under the Securities\nAct or any applicable state securities laws. The offering of the Notes is expected to close on July 15, 2026.\n\n \n\nIn connection with the closing of the offering\nof the Notes, the Issuer expects to (i) increase the maximum commitment under its existing liquidity funding note facility to reflect\nthe increase in the transaction’s liquidity reserve requirements that would result from the issuance of the Notes and (ii) extend\nthe maturity of the existing liquidity note facility to align with the final maturity date of the Notes.\n\n \n\nThe Notes were offered only to persons reasonably\nbelieved to be qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A under the Securities Act and outside the United States in compliance with\nRegulation S under the Securities Act. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.\n\n \n\n*Forward-Looking Statements*\n\n \n\nThis Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking\nstatements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions\nwith respect to the future and management’s current expectations, involve certain risks and uncertainties, and are not guarantees.\nThese forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the offering of the Notes and use of proceeds therefrom.\nThe words “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,”\n“may,” “plans,” “projects,” “will,” “would,” “predicts” and similar\nexpressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying\nwords. The Company may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in its forward-looking statements, and you\nshould not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements. Future results may differ materially from the plans, intentions and\nexpectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements that the Company makes. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties,\nknown and unknown, that could cause events and results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including, without\nlimitation: the levels of demand for our residential fiber network services within the markets related to the Notes, general market conditions\nwithin such markets, our ability to maintain and grow our residential fiber network services within these markets, unanticipated difficulties\nor expenditures relating to the merger of Uniti and Windstream; competition and overbuilding in consumer service areas and general competition\nin business markets; risks related to Uniti’s indebtedness, which could reduce funds available for business purposes and operational\nflexibility; rapid changes in technology, which could affect its ability to compete; risks relating to information technology system failures,\nnetwork disruptions, and failure to protect, loss of, or unauthorized access to, or release of, data; risks related to various forms of\nregulation from the Federal Communications Commission, state regulatory commissions and other government entities and effects of unfavorable\nlegal proceedings, government investigations, and complex and changing laws; risks inherent in the communications industry and associated\nwith general economic conditions; and additional risks set forth in the “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion\nand Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of Uniti’s most recently filed periodic reports on\nForm 10-K and Form 10-Q and subsequent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The discussion of such risks is not an\nindication that any such risks have occurred at the time of this filing. The Company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking\nstatements. Uniti expressly disclaims any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any of the forward-looking statements\nset forth in this press release to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which\nany such statement is based."}