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.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness documentary on PBS

A four-hour documentary about the mental health crisis among youth in America premieres on PBS stations nationwide on June 27 and June 28, 2022 at 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT, and 7 p.m., MT. Learn more.

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Updated: How to turn on parental controls for your kids’ favorite online services

Updated for 2022! Most parents don’t want their small kids accidentally wandering into the deep end of the internet without supervision. Parental controls can help keep your kids within the online content areas you’re comfortable with. We’ve rounded up quick links and, in some cases directions, to the parental controls for all of the major streaming services and the most-popular gaming platforms.

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10 perfect Father’s Day movies

Here at TDS, we love our fathers—and our movies! This Father’s Day, sit back, relax and enjoy one of these movies about fatherhood.

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Streaming Tunes Tuesday: Incubus, Morning View

The album covers everything from ambient rock to aggressive rock to groove music—there’s even a track that featured frogs croaking. And if you think that weirdness would detract from sales, you’d be incorrect. Ten million sold to date worldwide, their highest-selling album in the group’s history.

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Best dad jokes in celebration of Father’s Day

In honor of Father’s Day, we’re sharing the finest fatherly humor from its associate forum known as Dad Jokes. As the nation celebrates fathers and father-figures, here are some of the top dad jokes, which we invite you to torture others with share with others.

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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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