Telephone and Data Systems

Short description: Chicago-based telecommunications service company

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

Type| Public

Traded as

| NYSE: TDS
S&P 600 component
Industry| Communications services
Founded| 1969
Headquarters| 30 North LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Key people

| LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., President & CEO
Products| Local wireline and wireless telecommunication services, Internet services
Revenue| $5.104 billion United States dollar (2016)[1]

Number of employees

| 9,900[2] (2018)
Subsidiaries| U.S. Cellular (84%)
Website| www.tdsinc.com

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 through its business units TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) and OneNeck IT Solutions.[3]

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

1. ↑ "TDS Income Statement - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance". https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TDS/financials?p=TDS.
2. ↑ "TDS Profile - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance". 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. ↑ "Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. - About Us - History". http://www.tdsinc.com/about-us/history/default.aspx.
5. ↑ "Founder and longtime Chairman of TDS, LeRoy T. Carlson, passes away at 100 - FierceTelecom". 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

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