Telephone and Data Systems
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Public | |
Traded as |
NYSE: TDS S&P 400 Component |
Industry | Communications Services |
Founded | 1969 |
Headquarters |
30 North LaSalle Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Key people | LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., President & CEO |
Products | Local wireline and wireless telecommunication services, Internet services |
Revenue |
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Number of employees | 9,900 (2018)[2] |
Website |
www |
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is a Chicago-based telecommunications service company providing wireless products and services; cable and wireline broadband, TV and voice services; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million customers nationwide. [3] through its business units TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) and OneNeck IT Solutions.
The company began as a rural phone company in Wisconsin in 1969. In 1983 it founded U.S. Cellular as a subsidiary. In 2001, it acquired Straus Printing Company and combined it with a previously-acquired printing company, Suttle Press, to form Suttle-Straus as another subsidiary.[4]
LeRoy T. Carlson, the founder of TDS, died in May 2016 at the age of 100.[5]
References
- ↑ "TDS Income Statement - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
- ↑ "TDS Profile - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
- ↑ "TDS Reports Fourth Quarter Results" (Press release). Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. 24 August 2012.
- ↑ "Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. - About Us - History". www.tdsinc.com.
- ↑ http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press-releases/founder-and-longtime-chairman-tds-leroy-t-carlson-passes-away-100
External links
- Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. website
- U.S. Cellular website
- TDS Telecom website
- Suttle-Straus website
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