Changing your TDS recovery contact and username

Whether you’re a long-time customer or new to TDS (welcome!), we want to pass along a few tips and tricks about managing your TDS account. Following these steps will only take a few minutes but will ensure you can always quickly and easily log in and make any needed updates—resetting […]

Don’t let cyber foes haunt you this October

Ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night aren’t the only scary threats lurking this time of year. While Halloween is full of spooky surprises, Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as an important reminder that some of today’s most dangerous threats exist online. Cybercriminals are becoming faster, smarter, and […]

Back-to-school with TDS’ Education Assistance policy

Education can open new worlds and be a stepping stone to career growth, but the financial cost of higher education is often a barrier to earning a degree. TDS helps associates overcome that barrier with the Education Assistance policy, which reimburses up to 100% of higher educational costs. The policy […]

TDS helps schools recover after tornado

Working quickly in the aftermath of the storm, TDS teams helped ensure critical communications services were back in place.

TDS Open reaches new heights with historic donations to two nonprofits

What happens when passionate associates, fantastic vendors, and generous sponsors come together for a good cause? For TDS Telecom, it means making history. The 2026 TDS Open charity golf event raised a record-breaking $308,000, marking the largest charitable contribution in the event’s history. Held at University Ridge Golf Course in […]

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Go Big—Shop Small

Whether you’ve spent hours in line on Thanksgiving night, or you avoid holiday shopping like the plague, you’ve certainly heard of Black Friday—but don’t forget about Small Business Saturday! We have 5 ideas for businesses so they can leverage this growing annual event and 5 reasons why shopping small is so important.

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5-Day FREE preview of Cinemax & HBO

Great Black Friday deals may be coming but nothing is better than FREE—and you get FIVE days of FREE HBO and CINEMAX on TDS TV starting on Thanksgiving! Tune in starting at 6 a.m., November 28 and enjoy all the great shows and movies until 6 a.m. Tuesday, December 3. There are lots, and lots, and lots of great things to watch, from original series to awesome movies. Here’s what to watch for…

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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Freya Ridings

There’s nothing more exciting about learning about a new artist—especially a truly new to the industry artist. Sure some of them end up being total busts, but when you spot someone who appears on the brink of making it big, it’s a very fun thing to hear the start. Today’s featured act is just getting her feet wet, but seems poised for big things.

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6 Holiday tech gift ideas for the techie in your life

With Black Friday right around the corner, it’s already time to start planning for the holiday season. Before you whip out the holiday decorations, you might want to start thinking about what to give your loved ones. Luckily for you, TDS is highlighting six cost-effective tech gifts to make the 2019 holiday season one to remember!

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Set your scam alert level to high this holiday!

Forget snow storms—the holidays present the perfect conditions for a storm of scams. Think about it: we’re all busy, distracted, and doing nearly every activity frequently targeted by cyber scammers. In just a handful of weeks we’re reading oodles of emails, planning travel, shopping online, giving to charity, and receiving lots of packages. Just like you prepare for real-life storms, you need to be ready for this flurry of potential scam activity.

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Investing in our communities

It’s our mission to create a better world by providing high-quality communication services—connecting people and businesses, supporting education, and strengthening communities. We started with a handful of telephone companies in small and rural communities; with 1.1 million residential and business connections, TDS’ mission is to create a better world through its communications services.


In addition to serving customers, TDS takes a vested interest in the growth and success of our communities. From hands-on volunteering to in-kind and direct financial support, we believe in giving back. In fact, community involvement is so imperative to our core beliefs that TDS has a “Be Good Citizens” program, which provides our associates with 16 hours of paid volunteer time every year.

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