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July 9, 2009
TDS™ proud to offer program to customers
For more information contact:
Cindy Tomlinson, Associate Manager - Public Relations
TDS Telecommunications Corp.
608.664.4471 / 608.206.4646
cindy.tomlinson@tdstelecom.com
MADISON, Wis. – Movearoo, a free program designed to reduce the stress and anxiety associated with moving, is celebrating its first anniversary. TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS™), a proud Movearoo partner, likes knowing the free resource is helping its customers during what’s often a stressful time.
Since it began a year ago, Movearoo has helped over 1.3 million people nationwide and has generated positive feedback from its users. “Movearoo has been a bigger help than I imagined it would be,” said one satisfied user. Other customers have said: “Everyone experiencing a move should use Movearoo;” and “My experience has been very quick and accurate. I really like it and would recommend it to friends and family.”
Today, Movearoo continues to help people — both those moving and those comparison shopping — save money on home services and gain control of monthly home-related expenses.
Movearoo is a nationwide program for movers. It’s designed to ease the process of shopping for and establishing essential home services such as high-speed Internet, television, phone, electricity, gas and more. In addition to TDS, other leading communications companies teaming with Movearoo include AT&T, Qwest and Verizon.
People can take advantage of the Movearoo program by visiting Movearoo.com or calling 1-877-771-0771. Customers moving out of a participating company’s service area can be referred to Movearoo for information on home-connection services available at a customer’s new address. Simple and easy to use, the Web site also offers integrated online ordering of those services.
Visitors to the secure site simply type in their address and, in seconds, they’ll see a list of the prices and plans available from participating providers for their specific address.
Originally designed to simplify time-consuming tasks for the more than 20 million households who move each year, Movearoo has helped an additional segment of users. “Many customers have discovered Movearoo is a useful tool to help them save money,” said Chip Smith, chief marketing officer of WhiteFence, the company that powers Movearoo.com. “By comparing their current services to the available options at their existing address, people can save on their monthly household expenses by switching to a service more aligned with their current needs.”
In addition to comparison shopping for many home services, the site provides helpful tools for those moving. An interactive moving checklist, a free online change of address form, and local community information are all tools designed to help minimize the hassles often associated with moving.
About Movearoo:
Movearoo is a powerful online marketplace for consumers to shop for, order and save money on home essential services such as phone, TV, Internet and utilities. Movearoo was established by leading communications companies including AT&T, Qwest and Verizon to enhance a customer’s experience in establishing new communications services and to simplify a normally hectic transitional time like moving. Additional companies participating in the Movearoo program include EMBARQ, Frontier Communications, Hawaiian Telcom, TDS Telecommunications Corp. and Windstream Communications. The Web site was developed and is powered by WhiteFence, the nation’s leading online comparison-shopping marketplace for residential home services.
About TDS:
TDS Telecommunications Corp. markets communication services to business and residential customers in 30 states through its brands TDS Telecom® and TDS Metrocom®. With nearly 1.2 million access line equivalents in service, TDS Telecommunications Corp. connects customers to phone, broadband, and digital television service in hundreds of rural, suburban, and metropolitan communities. TDS Telecommunications Corp. is the eighth-largest wire line company in the nation; employing approximately 2,730 people. The company is headquartered in Madison, Wis. Visit www.tdstelecom.com and www.tdsbusiness.com for more information.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Telephone and Data Systems™ is a Fortune 500® company that provides wireless, local and long-distance telephone, and broadband services to nearly 7.4 million customers in 36 states, through TDS Telecommunications Corp. and U.S. Cellular®, its 81-percent owned wireless subsidiary. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, Telephone and Data Systems employed 12,500 full-time equivalent employees as of Dec. 31, 2008. Telephone and Data Systems is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TDS, TDS.S). For more information, visit www.teldta.com.
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