Planned TDS service outages in Ruidoso, New Mexico overnight Jan. 15-16

Ruidoso-area customers: As part of our overall infrastructure restoration, TDS technicians must complete fiber splicing work to finalize connections to our new permanent equipment hub. This may result in a brief interruption of your TDS services in the overnight hours starting tonight. TDS will perform the necessary maintenance overnight January […]

Don’t click that link! Beware of text message scams

Text message scams are now one of the top ways fraudsters steal personal information, with over $10 billion obtained from victims.

Five tips to start the new year off right

The start of 2025 is a great opportunity to reset, refocus, and prepare for success.

Alert! Email phishing scheme hitting inboxes

Always think twice about account threats, don’t click links, and make sure the “from” email address matches the sender’s name.

TDS Whole Home Wi-Fi: A better way to stay connected

It’s time to say goodbye to Wi-Fi dead zones and hello to seamless connectivity.

Welcome to the TDS Connect Blog

Learn how TDS can keep you connected in the home and at the office with Internet, TV, TDS Fiber, DVR and phone services and solutions.

Seen on Pinterest: Gluten Free for Beginners

We’ve recently discovered that a member of our family has Celiac Disease — the condition that causes an intolerance to wheat based products or those containing gluten. In helping our family member come up with new ways to re-engineer their lifestyle, we turned to Pinterest to catalog our recipes and common gluten-free conversion options. Whether you too have been asked to try gluten free for health reasons or are simply testing the trend like we are in solidarity, here are a few of our favorite resources for this week’s “Seen on Pinterest” column.

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Weekly tech news roundup for September 20

This week’s news highlights: Microsof buys Minecraft (and set the gaming community into a freakout), an astrophysics professor invents a $110 earthquake early warning device, and Microsoft announces a Windows event for September 30th. Also, check out a new reasonably-priced fitness tracker from Misfit and a leaked picture of a new Kindle e-reader called the Voyager (maybe it’ll be released in time for the holidays?).

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Consumer Alert: new phishing scam uses fake virus warnings

Our Remote PC Support team is getting reports of a new kind of malware making the rounds on the Internet you need to know about. Find out what the scam looks like, what victims are being told, and how to fix it.

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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: The Black Crowes

Today’s highlighted band, The Black Crowes is no slouch when it comes to carrying the torch for southern roots. Hailing from Marietta, Georgia, they understand and have been influenced by all the great acts of their generation, and the generation before them. Their’ initial release, Shake Your Money Maker, is an album that you could easily describe as an instant classic—it has sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. alone. If you’re not one of those who bought it back then, you can rejoice that now you can get it for much cheaper than most of those millions.

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Weekly tech news roundup for September 12

This week: Apple—what, when, and which one should you get (in only 3 paragraphs :-)), Higgs boson news which could mean the destruction of the known universe…maybe, and check out some printed solar cells that could revolutionize solar power as we know it. Also, if you’ve considered the new Nook you might want to read a few reviews first, find out how they recorded the sound of a single atom moving, and you have got to get a load of some creepy but amazing GIFs using historical photos.

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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; today we’re a rapidly growing technology company with 1.2 million residential and business connections.


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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