Telephone and Data Systems explained

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.
Type:Public
Traded As:
S&P 600 component
Location:30 North LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Key People:LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. (president & CEO)
Num Employees:9,900[1]
Num Employees Year:2018
Subsid:U.S. Cellular (84%)
Industry:Communications services
Products:Local wireline and wireless telecommunication services, Internet services
Revenue:$5.104 billion USD (2016)[2]
Module:
Child:yes
Asn:4181

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 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: TDS Profile - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance. finance.yahoo.com.
  2. Web site: TDS Income Statement - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance. finance.yahoo.com.
  3. Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. . 24 August 2012 . TDS Reports Fourth Quarter Results .
  4. Web site: Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. - About Us - History. www.tdsinc.com.
  5. Web site: Founder and longtime Chairman of TDS, LeRoy T. Carlson, passes away at 100 - FierceTelecom . www.fiercetelecom.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160526121405/http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press-releases/founder-and-longtime-chairman-tds-leroy-t-carlson-passes-away-100 . 2016-05-26.