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TDS Metrocom is a facilities-based provider of local, long-distance and Internet services, owning its own phone networks and operational centers, or switches, and investing millions of dollars in the communities it serves. Because of TDS' strength and financial stability, this allows the company to manage and expand its reach, in addition to diversifying its product base, something other phone companies, usually resellers of Qwest lines, are unable to do. "Most businesses need all the help they can get to keep the bottom line balanced in this tough economy," said Jim Butman, President of TDS Metrocom. "Because we are an established phone company with more than 30 years of history, we can offer businesses more cost-effective alternatives than our competitors - and we're not going to disappear tomorrow." TDS Metrocom, part of the TDS family of telecommunications companies, is a competitive local telecommunications provider established in 1997 that serves key markets in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota. TDS, a Fortune 500 company, is a Chicago-based telecommunications corporation founded in 1969 with established local wireline and wireless businesses and rapidly growing competitive local phone service operations. Through its strategic business units and business unit divisions, TDS Metrocom, TDS Telecom and U. S. Cellular, TDS provides service to customers in rural and suburban markets around the country. The company employs more than 11,000 people and serves more than six million local telephone and wireless customers in 35 states. TDS Metrocom can be accessed through the Internet at www.tdsmetro.com.