Walter C.D. Carlson
Chairman, President & CEO

Thank you, Alexia.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Walter Carlson, President and CEO and Chair of TDS, and I will be chairing this Annual Meeting of the TDS shareholders. At this meeting, at this time, I call the meeting to order, and I would like to thank everyone present and on the webcast for participating in this meeting. It is now -- oh my gosh, I would say 8:59. So we got to wait for a second as we decided 9:00. Would you like me to start again? It's -- now it's 9:00 (sic) [ 10:00 ]. Very good. Okay. So we will call the meeting to order. And at this time, polls are open for voting on the matters before this annual meeting as set forth in the notice of annual meeting and proxy statement and on the agenda for this meeting. The rules of conduct that we will follow for this meeting are set forth on the reverse side of the agenda. If you do not have a copy of the agenda and rules of conduct and would like a copy, please raise your hand and one will be brought to you. Does anybody need an agenda?

I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the directors, officers and special guests of TDS. I'd first like to introduce the other directors of TDS who are present. LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., Director and Vice Chair of TDS. Okay, that's better. Okay. Dr. Letitia G. Carlson, Director of TDS and Physician and Clinical Professor at George Washington University Medical Center; Prudence E. Carlson, Director of TDS; Kenneth S. Dixon, Director of TDS and President and Chief Executive Officer of TDS Telecommunications LLC; Kimberly D. Dixon, Director of TDS and