Publish Date : 25-Jul-2012
According to TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®), construction got underway on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus projects near Monroe, Neillsville, and Medford, Wis. As a result, more customers will have access to high-speed Internet services.
In the Monroe area {TDS’ UTELCO, LLC}, TDS has hired InterCon Energy Services out of Waunakee, Wis. to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be completed by summer 2013. At that time, high speed Internet services should be available to nearly 850 customers in the area.
In the Medford area {TDS’ Midway Telephone Company, LLC}, TDS has hired Michels Corporation based in Brownsville, Wis. to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be done by fall 2013. At that time, high speed Internet services should be available to nearly 1,200 customers in the area.
In the Neillsville area {TDS’ Badger Telecom, LLC}, Michels Corporation has also been hired to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be finished in the summer of 2013. At that time, high speed Internet services should be available to nearly 870 customers in the area.
TDS is receiving funding for the project from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) as part of the ARRA.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) is the seventh largest telecom provider in the U.S. For more than 40 years, the company has been connecting people with high-speed Internet, phone, and TV entertainment services in hundreds of rural, suburban, and metropolitan communities across 31 states. Today, TDS has more than 1.1 million equivalent access lines in service and 2,700 employees. Business customers select from the latest technologies, including: VoIP (managedIP) phone service, dedicated Internet, data networking, and hosted-managed services.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. also manages the operations of VISI Incorporated, TEAM Technologies, OneNeck IT Services Corp., and Vital Support Systems through TDS Hosted & Managed Services, LLC. These companies employ more than 500 people, who specialize in engineering and management of IT infrastructure, including: hosted application management, managed hosting, enterprise cloud services, and Tier III data centers.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. headquartered in Madison, Wis. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS]. A Fortune 500® company, Telephone and Data Systems provides wireless, local and long-distance telephone and broadband services to approximately 7 million customers in 36 states through TDS Telecommunications Corp. and U.S. Cellular [NYSE: USM], its majority owned wireless subsidiary. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, Telephone and Data Systems employed 12,300 people as of March 31, 2012.
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