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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7 hotel exercise tips

On the outside, traveling for vacation or work can seem glamourous and exciting—and it can be. Travel can also be exhausting and throw you off your normal healthy routines. There is an easy way to get back in your normal groove—grab a workout.

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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Queen

Great bands are great bands—it doesn’t matter if they’re recent or from decades ago. You can see how certain acts transcend time and become popular long after they made the music. Today’s band has done it twice now, and will continue to be heard for another fifty years plus. Today you can score one of their most iconic albums for a song.

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Hacking humans: the dangers of social engineering

To get people to comply with their scam, social engineers hack people. They use tactics such as creating a sense of urgency, minimizing rules/consequences, building rapport, playing on the victim’s sympathy, and impersonating an authority figure or other trusted person. Find out what you can do to become a human firewall and protect against this kind of trickery.

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TDS Thanksgiving recipes & traditions

With Thanksgiving just a few short days away, we asked our employees to share a few of their favorite recipes and traditions. Here were some of their responses: Recipes: For the past three years, one TDS employee has been collecting […]

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U-14 girls basketball teams can play at the Kohl Center™!

We’re giving Dane County youth girls basketball teams the chance to win tickets to a Badger™ women’s college basketball game and scrimmage at halftime at the Kohl Center™! Find out how to enter for a chance at two different games.

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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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