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.

TDS holds Week of Giving campaign

From supporting STEM learning opportunities to volunteering at local food banks, TDS associates held roughly 100 philanthropic activities during the third annual Week of Giving.

Top tech gifts this holiday season 

Need last-minute ideas for the tech lover in your life? Here are five gadgets that are sure to impress this year.

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.

Rural call completion: the problem and the progress

Whether you live in a rural or an urban area, you should know about a troubling phone problem: rural call completion (or the lack of it). TDS has been working with other local phone companies to highlight this growing issue […]

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10 Father’s Day gift ideas for the geeky dad

I went to the geekiest dads I know and asked them what they’d love to get for Father’s Day this year. By combining their ideas with a few of my own, I think we’ve developed a pretty fantastic list. Here […]

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A joke ended a college presidency

A joke ended a college presidency. No joke. It’s real. Ohio State’s Gorden Gee is retiring after a recording obtained by the AP quotes him as saying, “The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they’re holy hell the rest of […]

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Don’t eat popsicles in the living room

I work full time at TDS as the Manager of Training and Development and part time at Edgewood College as an adjunct professor. I serve on the Board of Directors for Avenues to Community and was recently appointed the Vice […]

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Help for your cable confusion

HDMI, component, composite, DVI, optical audio, coaxial, Cat 5, s-video – the list of cable types goes on and on and on. Learn what those cables are for and your best options for making the most efficient connections.

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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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