- Date
- 1996-09
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Telephone Company
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationtechnologyinfrastructurecommercecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In September 1996, Island Telephone Company announced that it was adopting the TDS TELECOM identity. The notice said TDS had owned and operated the service since 1989 and that the change would not alter local personnel, services, or rates, while associating the island company with TDS’s larger rural and suburban network.
Evidence limits
This is a company announcement and does not independently establish the full ownership, service, or customer statistics described in it.
Sources
- Reports that Island Telephone Company, owned and operated by TDS since 1989, was updating its public identity to TDS TELECOM without changing local personnel, services, or rates; the notice describes TDS’s broader rural and suburban customer base. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1996-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the telephone-company identity notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1996-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Island Telephone Company adopts the TDS TELECOM identity on Beaver Island in 1996”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-telephone-company-tds-identity-1996/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1996, “New Identity for Island Telephone.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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