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accession: "0001051512-24-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TDS"
cik: "0001051512"
company_name: "TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T03:16:20.074906+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Telephone and Data Systems amends bylaws, aligns with Delaware law, updates advance notice rules

## Summary
- Board adopted amended and restated bylaws effective December 13, 2024.
- Bylaws aligned with developments in Delaware law and current practices.
- Revised advance notice provisions for stockholder director nominations and other business proposals.
- Amendments include non-substantive, technical, and conforming changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001051512-24-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TDS
- cik: 0001051512
- company_name: TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1051512/000105151224000073/0001051512-24-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1051512/000105151224000073/tds-20241213.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001051512-24-000073.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC /DE/: Amended and restated bylaws to align with Delaware law and revise advance notice provisions for stockholder nominations and proposals (effective 2024-12-13).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-12-13
  source text: Among other things, the Amended and Restated Bylaws: (1) align the Company’s bylaws with developments in Delaware law and current practice and (2) revise the advance notice provisions regarding procedural and disclosure requirements for stockholders’ director nominations and proposals for other business.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1051512/000105151224000073/0001051512-24-000073-index.htm

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