TDS Metrocom, a facilities-based communications company, provides a litany of telephone and Internet services to businesses and private customers in communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota. A member of the Telephone and Data Systems family of companies, Metrocom s additional services include local and long distance calling, high-speed Internet, Internet hardware, voicemail and data transport services. Founded in 1969, its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems, serves more than 6 million telecommunications customers in approximately 36 states. The TDS family of companies, which includes TDS Metrocom, TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular, employs approximately 11,500 people nationwide. In addition to its administrative offices in Pequot Lakes, Minn., TDS Metrocom has more than 20 locations throughout its service area in the Upper Midwest, including an office in Madison, Wis.