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Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: TDS
S&P 400 Component
IndustryCommunications Services
Founded1969
Headquarters30 North LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Key people
LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., President & CEO
ProductsLocal wireline and wireless telecommunication services, Internet services
RevenueDecrease$5.104 billion USD (2016)[1]
Number of employees
10,300 (2016)[2]
Websitewww.tdsinc.com

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is a Chicago-based telecommunications service company providing wireless, local- and long-distance telephone, broadband and video services to approximately 7 million customers in 36 states[3] through its business units TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM).

The company began as a rural phone company in Wisconsin in 1969. In 1983 it founded U.S. Cellular as a subsidiary.[4]

LeRoy T. Carlson, the founder of TDS, died in May 2016 at the age of 100.[5]

References

  1. ^ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TDS/financials?p=TDS
  2. ^ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TDS/profile?p=TDS
  3. ^ "TDS Reports Fourth Quarter Results" (Press release). Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. 24 August 2012.
  4. ^ TDS corporate history
  5. ^ http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press-releases/founder-and-longtime-chairman-tds-leroy-t-carlson-passes-away-100


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