TDS Telecom is an American telecommunications company with headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems Inc, and is the seventh-largest local exchange carrier in the U.S. TDS Telecom offers telephone, broadband Internet and television services to customers in 30 states and more than 900 rural and suburban communities, though it also serves some urban metropolitan communities. It also sells businesses communications services, including VoIP (managed IP hosted) phone service, dedicated broadband Internet and hosted-managed services. With headquarters in Madison, TDS Telecom operates TDS Broadband LLC, and BendBroadband, and TDS Metrocom, LLC. Combined, the company employs nearly 3,300 people. In 2019, TDS Telecom and parent company TDS Inc. celebrated 50 years in business.

TDS Telecom is a participant in the FCC's Connect America Fund, also known as A-CAM. With this funding TDS is on a ten-year push to bring high speed internet to the furthest reaches of its rural serving areas. Depending on location, the vast majority of TDS customers in eligible rural areas are expected to receive broadband speeds of 25 Mbit/s download and 3 Mbit/s upload (25/3). The remaining customers are expected to receive broadband speeds at 10/1 and 4/1 Mbit/s. In less rural areas, TDS provides much higher broadband speeds, from 100 Mbps to 8 Gbps.

More recently, TDS has been launching new fiber to the home services across Wisconsin and Idaho. The new markets in Wisconsin include: Deforest, Windsor, McFarland, Monona Grove, Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Merrimac municipalities, all within Dane County. In Idaho the cities cities Coeur d'Alene, Rathdrum, Hayden, and Post Falls, all within Kootenai County. These services are offered by TDS through CLEC TDS Metrocom, LLC which is operated by TDS Telecom. Fiber to the home markets are 1 Gigabit speed markets with multiple speed offerings available to customers.

TDS Metrocom TDS Metrocom is TDS Telecom's local phone business, providing customers with phone, data, and Internet services in a five-state area in the midwestern United States. Its central office is located at 3416 University Ave in Madison, Wisconsin. Unlike Telecom, Metrocom used a deal brokered by Tommy Thompson to allow for local phone service competition on AT&T's lines in exchange for long distance plan selling rights over landline. They are no longer offering this service to new residential subscribers, but continue to maintain existing contracts, new features, or new locations on existing accounts. TDS Metrocom is currently in maintenance mode, where they are allowed to maintain existing telephone and Internet installations but not add any new telephone or Internet accounts. Business accounts are still available.

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Butler Telephone Co., Butler, Alabama Oakman Telephone Co., Oakman, Alabama Peoples Telephone Co., Centre, Alabama Cleveland County Tel. Co., Rison, Arkansas Decatur Telephone Co., Decatur, Arkansas Arizona Telephone Co., Quartzsite, Arizona Southwestern Telephone Co., Quartzsite, Arizona Happy Valley Telephone Co., Olinda, California Decision 89 10 045 - California Public Utilities Commission Hornitos Telephone Co., Olinda, California Winterhaven Telephone Co., Winterhaven, California Delta County Tele-Comm, Paonia, Colorado Strasburg Telephone Co., Strasburg, Colorado Quincy Telephone Co., Quincy, Florida (also serves Attapulgus, Georgia) Blue Ridge Telephone Co., Blue Ridge, Georgia Camden Telephone & Telegraph Co., St. Mary's, Georgia Nelson-Ball Ground Telephone Co., Nelson, Georgia Potlatch Telephone Co., Potlatch, Idaho Camden Telephone Co., Camden, Indiana Comm. Corp. of Indiana, Whitestown, Indiana Comm. Corp. of Southern Indiana, Poseyville, Indiana Home Company of Pittsboro, Pittsboro, Indiana Home Telephone Co., Waldron, Indiana Merchants & Farmers Telephone Co., Hillsboro, Indiana S & W Telephone Co., Sandborn, Indiana Tipton Telephone, Tipton, Indiana Tri-County Telephone Co., New Richmond, Indiana West Point Telephone Co., West Point, Indiana Leslie County Telephone Co., Hyden, Kentucky Lewisport Telephone Co., Lewisport, Kentucky Salem Telephone Co., Salem, Kentucky Cobbosseecontee Tel. Co., North Anson, Maine Hampden Telephone Co., Hampden, Maine Hartland & St. Albans Tel. Co., Hartland, Maine Somerset Telephone Co., North Anson, Maine The Island Telephone Co., Warren, Maine Warren Telephone Co., Warren, Maine West Penobscot Tel. & Tele. Co., Corinna, Maine Chatham Telephone Co., Chatham, Michigan Communication Corporation of Michigan, Augusta, Michigan Island Telephone Co., Sanford, Michigan Shiawassee Telephone Co., Perry, Michigan Wolverine Telephone Co., Millington, Michigan Arvig Telephone Co., Pequot Lakes, Minnesota Bridge Water Telephone Co., Monticello, Minnesota Mid-State Telephone Co., New London, Minnesota Winsted Telephone Company, Winsted, Minnesota Calhoun City Telephone Co., Calhoun, Mississippi Myrtle Telephone Co. Myrtle, Mississippi Southeast Miss. Tel. Co., Leakesville, Mississippi Contoocook Valley Tel. Co., Contoocook, New Hampshire Hollis Telephone Co., Hollis, New Hampshire Kearsarge Telephone Co., Kearsarge, New Hampshire Merrimack County Telephone, Contoocook, New Hampshire Union Telephone Co., Farmington, New Hampshire Wilton Telephone Company, Wilton, New Hampshire Deposit Telephone Co., Deposit, New York Edwards Telephone Co., Edwards, New York Oriskany Falls Telephone Corporation, Vernon, New York Port Byron Telephone Co., Port Byron, New York Township Telephone Co., Chaumont, New York Vernon Telephone Co., Vernon, New York Arcadia Telephone Co., Arcadia, Ohio Continental Telephone Co., Continental, Ohio Little Miami Communications Corporation, Fayetteville, Ohio Oakwood Telephone Company, Oakwood, Ohio The Vanlue Telephone Company, Vanlue, Ohio Mid-America Telephone Co., Stonewall, Oklahoma Wyandotte Telephone Co., Wyandotte, Oklahoma BendBroadBand Company, Bend, Oregon Mahanoy & Mahantango Tel. Co., Herndon, Pennsylvania Sugar Valley Telephone Co., Loganton, Pennsylvania McClellanville Telephone Co., McClellanville, South Carolina Norway Telephone Company, North, South Carolina St. Stephen Telephone Co., St. Stephen, South Carolina Williston Telephone Co., Williston, South Carolina Concord Telephone Exchange, Farragut, Tennessee Humphreys County Tel., New Johnsonville, Tennessee Tellico Telephone Co., Tellico Plains, Tennessee Tennessee Telephone Co., Parsons, Tennessee Amelia Telephone Corp., Amelia, Virginia New Castle Telephone Co., New Castle, Virginia Virginia Telephone Co., Hot Springs, Virginia Ludlow Telephone Company, Ludlow, Vermont Northfield Telephone Co., Northfield, Vermont Perkinsville Telephone Co., Perkinsville, Vermont Asotin Telephone Co., Asotin, Washington (also serves Oregon) Lewis River Telephone Co., La Center, Washington McDaniel Telephone Company, Salkum, Washington Badger Telecom, Neillsville, Wisconsin Black Earth Telephone Co., Black Earth, Wisconsin Bonduel Telephone Co., Bonduel, Wisconsin Burlington, Brighton, & Wheatland Telephone Company, New Munster, Wisconsin Central State Telephone Co., Vesper, Wisconsin Dickeyville Telephone, Dickeyville, Wisconsin EastCoast Telecom, Valders, Wisconsin The Farmers Telephone Co., Lancaster, Wisconsin Grantland Telecom, Fennimore, Wisconsin Mid-Plains Telephone, Middleton, Wisconsin Merrimac Communications - Merrimac, Wisconsin Midway Telephone Co., Medford, Wisconsin Mosinee Telephone Co., Mosinee, Wisconsin Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., Verona, Wisconsin Riverside Telecom, Reeseville, Wisconsin Scandinavia Telephone Co., Iola, Wisconsin Southeast Telephone Co., Waterford, Wisconsin State Long Distance Telcom, Elkhorn, Wisconsin UTELCO, Monroe, Wisconsin Waunakee Telephone Co., Waunakee, Wisconsin Stockbridge & Sherwood Telephone Company, Sherwood, Wisconsin Tenney Telephone Co., Alma, Wisconsin

See also List of United States telephone companies

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External links

TDS Metrocom Webpage