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Jan. 23, 2012
$2,000 scholarships awarded by Minnesota Telecom Alliance Foundation/TDS®
For more information contact: Cindy Tomlinson, Associate Manager – PR / TDS Telecommunications Corp. / 608-664-4471 / cindy.tomlinson@tdstelecom.com
Calling all Minnesota High School seniors: Now’s the time to apply for $2,000 scholarships that will be awarded by the Minnesota Telecom Alliance Foundation (MTA). TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) is once again participating in the MTA scholarship program.
Interested seniors can access an application, which is due to TDS by March 2, 2012, at: http://www.mnta.org/associations/11041/files/MTAFoundation-ScholarshipApp-2012.pdf
TDS, and other incumbent telephone companies and cooperatives across the state, participate in the MTA scholarship program. Annually, five $2,000 scholarships are awarded to graduating seniors. In late-March, the MTA Foundation will review all submitted applications and select the finalists based on grades, academic achievements, and extra-curricular activities. Preference is given to students with an interest in telecommunications technology and rural communities. Scholarships will be presented during the recipient’s high school graduation or awards night programs.
“TDS is proud to team up with the MTA to help make college a little more accessible and affordable for Minnesota families in our serving areas,” says Tom Ollig, associate market manager for TDS. “Being part of this project, which supports the young people in the community’s we serve, is about being good corporate citizens, which TDS is actively engaged in across the nation."
The Foundation is part of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance, a trade that advocates and represents the interests of more than 80 telecommunications providers throughout Minnesota’s metropolitan and rural communities, including TDS.
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TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) is the seventh largest telecom provider in the U.S. For more than 40 years, the company has been connecting people with high-speed Internet, phone, and TV entertainment services in hundreds of rural, suburban, and metropolitan communities across 30 states. Today, TDS has more than 1.1 million equivalent access lines in service and 2,700 employees. Business customers select from the latest technologies, including: VoIP (managedIP) phone service, dedicated Internet, data networking, and hosted-managed services. Visit www.tdstelecom.com or www.tdsbusiness.com for more information.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. also manages the operations of VISI Incorporated, TEAM Technologies, and OneNeck IT Services Corp. through TDS Hosted & Managed Services, LLC. These companies employ more than 350 people who specialize in providing hosted application management, managed hosting, cloud services, and next generation data centers. Visit www.visi.com, www.team-companies.com, and www.oneneck.com for details.
TDS Telecommunications Corp. headquartered in Madison, Wis. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS, TDS.S]. A Fortune 500® company, Telephone and Data Systems provides wireless, local and long-distance telephone and broadband services to approximately 7 million customers in 36 states through TDS Telecommunications Corp. and U.S. Cellular [NYSE: USM], its 84-percent owned wireless subsidiary. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, Telephone and Data Systems employed 12,300 employees as of Sept. 30, 2011. Visit www.teldta.com for investor information.
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