Publish Date : 15-Oct-2012
TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) says construction is underway on four more American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus projects. The projects will expand broadband Internet services to more customers are in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
A project on the Florida/Georgia border for TDS’ Quincy Telephone Company is now underway. It is scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2013 and accessible to about 430 customers in areas around Laingka, Ga., Oak Grove, Fla., and Sycamore, Fla. TDS has hired Electricom out of Indiana to do the outside construction work on this project.
In Kentucky, {TDS’ Leslie County Telephone Company} TDS has hired Gibson Technical Services out of Ga. to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be completed by fall 2013, and accessible to about 1,600 customers in the Hyden, Ky. area.
In Tennessee, {TDS’ Tennessee Telephone Company} TDS has hired R. Roese Contracting Company, Inc. out of Kawkawlin, Mich. to do the outside construction work. The project is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2013, and accessible to about 1,575 customers in areas around Decaturville, Darden, Bruceton, Waynesboro, and Cornersville, Tenn.
In Wisconsin, {TDS’ Scandinavia Telephone Company} TDS has hired H&H Utility Excavating out of Plymouth, Wis. to do the outside construction. By fall 2013, the project is scheduled to be completed and accessible to about 460 customers in areas around Iola and Scandinavia, Wis.
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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