Publish Date : 27-Sep-2012
TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS) says construction is underway on three more American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus projects. The projects are in Georgia, Michigan, and New York. Once completed, broadband Internet services will be available to more customers in these states.
In Georgia, {TDS’ Blue Ridge Telephone Company} TDS has hired McClure’s out of N.C. to do the outside construction work. By next summer, the project is scheduled to be completed and accessible to more than 350 customers in areas around Curtis and Maple Grove.
In Michigan, {TDS’ Island Telephone Company} TDS has hired Creek Enterprise, Inc. out of Tecumseh, Mich. to do the outside construction work. By next winter, the project is scheduled to be completed and accessible about 300 customers on Bois Blanc Island.
In New York, {TDS’ Deposit Telephone Company, Inc.} TDS has hired NextGen out of Rochester, N.Y. to do the outside construction work. By next summer, the project is scheduled to be completed and accessible to about 1,200 customers in areas around Harpursville, Sanford, and Deposit.
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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