Company: UZF
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000821130-25-000023
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Company: ARRAY DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 UScellular conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP). However, UScellular uses certain “non-GAAP financial measures” in the MD&A and the business segment information. A discussion of the reasons UScellular determines these metrics to be useful and reconciliations of these measures to their most directly comparable measures determined in accordance with GAAP are included in the disclosure under the heading Supplemental Information Relating to Non-GAAP Financial Measures within the MD&A of this report.

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General

UScellular provides wireless service throughout its footprint, and leases tower space to third-party carriers on UScellular-owned towers. UScellular is an 83%-owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS).

OPERATIONS

▪Serves customers with 4.4 million retail connections including 4.0 million postpaid and 0.4 million prepaid connections

▪Operates in 21 states

▪Employs approximately 4,100 associates

▪Owns 4,409 towers

▪Operates 7,010 cell sites in service

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UScellular Mission and Strategy

UScellular’s mission is to connect its customers to what matters most to them. This includes providing wireless communication services which enhance consumers’ lives, increase the competitiveness of local businesses, and improve the efficiency of government operations in the markets UScellular serves.  

UScellular’s strategy is to attract and retain customers by providing a high-quality network, outstanding customer service, and competitive devices, plans and pricing - all provided with a local community focus. Strategic efforts include: 

▪UScellular offers economical and competitively priced wireless service plans and devices to its customers and is focused on increasing revenues from sales of related products such as device protection plans and from services such as fixed wireless home internet. In addition, UScellular is focused on expanding its solutions available to business and government customers. 

▪UScellular continues to enhance its network capabilities, including by deploying 5G technology to help address customers’ growing demand for data services and create opportunities for new services requiring high speed and reliability as well as low latency. In 2019-2023, UScellular focused on 5G coverage and predominantly used low-band spectrum to launch 5G services in portions of substantially all of its markets. During 2023 and 2024, UScellular has focused on deploying 5