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Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Earnings per share | The amounts used in computing earnings per common share and the effects of potentially dilutive securities on the weighted average number of common shares were as follows:
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| September 30, |  | September 30,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
(Dollars and shares in millions, except per share amounts) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic earnings per share available to TDS common |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | shareholders: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Net income available to TDS common shareholders used in basic earnings per share | $ | 13 |  | $ | 51 |  | $ | 49 |  | $ | 220
Adjustments to compute diluted earnings: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Noncontrolling interest adjustment |  | – |  |  | – |  |  | (1) |  |  | (2)
| Net income available to TDS common shareholders |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | used in diluted earnings per share | $ | 13 |  | $ | 51 |  | $ | 48 |  | $ | 218
Weighted average number of shares used in basic |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| earnings per share: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Common Shares |  | 103 |  |  | 102 |  |  | 103 |  |  | 102
|  | Series A Common Shares |  | 7 |  |  | 7 |  |  | 7 |  |  | 7
|  |  | Total |  | 110 |  |  | 109 |  |  | 110 |  |  | 109
Effects of dilutive securities |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1
Weighted average number of shares used in diluted |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| earnings per share |  | 111 |  |  | 110 |  |  | 111 |  |  | 110
Basic earnings per share available to TDS common |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| shareholders | $ | 0.12 |  | $ | 0.47 |  | $ | 0.44 |  | $ | 2.03
Diluted earnings per share available to TDS common |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| shareholders | $ | 0.11 |  | $ | 0.46 |  | $ | 0.44 |  | $ | 1.99

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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