Public | |
Traded as | : 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 | $5.104 billion USD (2016) |
Number of employees
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10,300 (2016) |
Website | www |
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 through its business units TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular (: USM).
The company began as a rural phone company in Wisconsin in 1969. In 1983 it founded U.S. Cellular as a subsidiary.
LeRoy T. Carlson, the founder of TDS, died in May 2016 at the age of 100.
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s current executive officers are:
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.'s current board of directors are: