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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM 8-K</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CURRENT REPORT<BR>
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF<BR>
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October&nbsp;18, 2005</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Warwick Valley Telephone Company</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>New York</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>47 Main Street<BR>
Warwick, New York 10990<BR>
(845)&nbsp;986-8080</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of Registrant&#146;s principal executive offices)</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the
obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;3.01. </B><U><B>Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing</B></U>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 3%">Warwick Valley Telephone Company (the &#147;Company&#148;), whose Common Shares trade on The Nasdaq
National Market under the symbol WWVYE, had, as previously reported on September&nbsp;7, 2005,
been given by a Nasdaq hearing panel until October&nbsp;15, 2005 to file its Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March&nbsp;31, 2005 (the &#147;First Quarter 10-Q&#148;) and June
30, 2005 (the &#147;Second Quarter 10-Q&#148;) in order to avoid the delisting of its Common
Shares. The Company submitted a request that this deadline be extended and the Nasdaq
Listing Qualifications Panel of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. has granted the Company&#146;s
request for continued listing of its Common Shares on The Nasdaq National Market,
provided that the Company files its First Quarter 10-Q and its Second Quarter 10-Q by
October&nbsp;31, 2005. If the Company is unable to file these reports by that date, its
Common Shares may be delisted from The Nasdaq National Market.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 3%">The Company currently anticipates that it will be able to file its Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March&nbsp;31, 2005 by October&nbsp;21, 2005 and its Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June&nbsp;30, 2005 by October&nbsp;28, 2005.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;8.01. </B><U><B>Other Events</B></U>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 3%">On October&nbsp;18, 2005, the Company issued a press release describing the extension by The
Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. referred to above under Item&nbsp;3.01 of the deadline for the
Company to file its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March&nbsp;31, 2005
and June&nbsp;30, 2005 in order to avoid the delisting of its Common Shares.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 3%">A copy of the Company&#146;s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 and is
incorporated herein by reference.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;9.01. </B><U><B>Financial Statements and Exhibits</B></U>
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    <TD width="5%" nowrap align="left">99.1.</TD>
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    <TD>Press release entitled &#147;Warwick Valley Telephone Receives Nasdaq Extension,&#148; dated
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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<U>WARWICK VALLEY TELEPHONE COMPANY</U><BR>
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    <TD align="left">Date: October 18, 2005&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Herbert Gareiss, Jr.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Exhibit&nbsp;99.1</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Warwick Valley Telephone Receives Nasdaq Extension</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">(Warwick, New York, October&nbsp;18, 2005&#151;Nasdaq: WWVYE; the Company) Warwick Valley Telephone Company
announced today that it has been granted an extension until October&nbsp;31, 2005 of the deadline to
file its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March&nbsp;31, 2005 and June&nbsp;30, 2005
provided that these reports are filed by October&nbsp;31, 2005. Should the Company be unable to file
these reports by that date, its Common Shares may be delisted from The Nasdaq National Market.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The Company currently anticipates that it will be able to file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended March&nbsp;31, 2005 by October&nbsp;21, 2005 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended June&nbsp;30, 2005 by October&nbsp;28, 2005. The extension was requested to give the
Company&#146;s new independent accountants additional time to complete the reviews associated with these
quarterly filings.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">CAUTION CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">This press release contains forward-looking statements. Please refer to the Company&#146;s Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2004 and the Company&#146;s past and future filings and
reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the business
environment in which the Company operates and the important factors that may affect its business.
The Company is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any obligation to) update or
alter its forward-looking statements, whether as the result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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