Telephone and Data Systems

{{Short description|Chicago-based telecommunications service company}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.

| logo = Telephone and Data Systems logo.svg

| logo_size = 180px

| type = Public

| traded_as = {{NYSE|TDS}}
S&P 600 component

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1969}}

| location = 30 North LaSalle
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| key_people = LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. (president & CEO)

| num_employees = 9,900{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TDS/profile?p=TDS|title=TDS Profile - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance|website=finance.yahoo.com}}

| num_employees_year = 2018

| subsid = U.S. Cellular (84%)

| industry = Communications services

| products = Local wireline and wireless telecommunication services, Internet services

| revenue = {{decrease}}$5.104 billion USD (2016){{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TDS/financials?p=TDS|title=TDS Income Statement - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc Stock - Yahoo Finance|website=finance.yahoo.com}}

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.tdsinc.com}}

| module = {{infobox network service provider|child=yes|asn=4181}}

}}

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. is a Chicago-based telecommunications service company providing wireless products and services; cable and wireline broadband, TV and voice services; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million customers nationwide through its business units TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular ({{NYSE|USM}}).{{cite press release | publisher = Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | date = 24 August 2012 | title = TDS Reports Fourth Quarter Results | url = http://ir.teldta.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=67422&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1665010&highlight=}}

The company began as a rural phone company in Wisconsin in 1969. In 1983 it founded U.S. Cellular as a subsidiary. In 2001, it acquired Straus Printing Company and combined it with a previously acquired printing company, Suttle Press, to form Suttle-Straus as another subsidiary.{{cite web|url=http://www.tdsinc.com/about-us/history/default.aspx|title=Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. - About Us - History|website=www.tdsinc.com}}

LeRoy T. Carlson, the founder of TDS, died in May 2016 at the age of 100.{{cite web |url=http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press-releases/founder-and-longtime-chairman-tds-leroy-t-carlson-passes-away-100 |title=Founder and longtime Chairman of TDS, LeRoy T. Carlson, passes away at 100 - FierceTelecom |website=www.fiercetelecom.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526121405/http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press-releases/founder-and-longtime-chairman-tds-leroy-t-carlson-passes-away-100 |archive-date=2016-05-26}}