Publish Date : 27-Jul-2012
According to TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®), construction is underway on the company’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus projects in Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, and Minnesota. As a result, more customers will have access to high-speed Internet services.
In Colorado, {TDS’ Delta County Tele-Comm, Inc.} TDS has hired Baer Communications out of Lawrence, Kan. to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be completed by winter 2013. At that time, high speed Internet services should be available to nearly 550 customers in the Paonia area.
In Idaho, {TDS’ Potlatch Telephone Company} TDS has hired Summit Utilities Contractors LLC out of Lewiston, Idaho to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be done in the summer of 2013. At that time, high speed Internet services should be available to about 300 customers in the Kendrick area.
In Indiana, {TDS’ Home Telephone Company, Inc.} TDS has hired JDH Contracting, Inc. out of Plainfield, Ind. to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be done by the first part of 2013. At that time, high speed Internet services should be available to about 175 customers in the Waldron area.
In Minnesota, {TDS’ Arvig Telephone Company} MP Nexlevel out of Maple Lake, Minn. has 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 900 customers in the Pequot Lakes 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.
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