8-K

FORM 8-K

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  December 13, 2006

UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	001-9712	62-1147325
(State or other	(Commission	(IRS Employer
jurisdiction of	File Number)	Identification No.)
incorporation)
8410 West Bryn Mawr, Suite 700, Chicago Illinois		60631
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (773) 399-8900
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 5.02(e). Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On December 13, 2006, United States Cellular Corporation (“USCC”) entered into two deferred compensation agreements with John E. Rooney. Mr. Rooney is a director of and the President and Chief Executive Officer of USCC.  The first agreement calls for the deferral of Mr. Rooney’s 2007 annual bonus into a Phantom Stock Account in accordance with USCC’s 2005 Long-term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”).  The second agreement calls for a partial deferral of Mr. Rooney’s 2007 gross salary into an Interest Account.

The deferred compensation agreements attached hereto as exhibits are incorporated by reference herein.  The following is a brief summary of the two types of agreements which is qualified by reference to the complete agreements attached as exhibits.  Certain capitalized terms are used as defined in the agreements attached as exhibits.

Phantom Stock Account:  Mr. Rooney has elected to defer 100% of his annual bonus for 2007 into the Deferred Compensation Account as of the date the bonus check is issued which will be 100% vested.  USCC will credit to the Deferred Compensation Account a company match amount equal to the sum of (i) 25% of the amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of such date which is not in excess of one-half of the Executive’s total gross bonus for the Bonus Year and (ii) 33 1/3% of the amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of such date which is in excess of one-half of the Executive’s total gross bonus for the Bonus Year.  One-third of the amount credited to the Executive’s Deferred Compensation Account (as adjusted for deemed investment returns under the deferred compensation agreement) shall become vested on each of the first three annual anniversary dates of December 31, 2007, provided that the Executive is an employee of USCC (or a parent or subsidiary of USCC) on such date and the amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account has not been withdrawn or distributed before such date.

An amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account shall be deemed to be invested in whole and fractional USCC Common Shares at the closing sale price on the principal national stock exchange on which such stock is traded on the date as of which the amount is credited to the Deferred Compensation Account or, if there is no reported sale for such date, on the next preceding date for which a sale was reported.

Mr. Rooney has elected to receive his distributable balance in a lump sum payment upon separation of service.

The Agreement in the phantom stock account is subject to the provisions of the LTIP and shall be interpreted in accordance therewith.

Interest Account:  Mr. Rooney has elected to defer 20% of his gross semi-monthly payroll check for services performed in 2007 into the Deferred Compensation Account.  The percentage deferrals shall be in effect for the entire calendar year.

Commencing on February 28, 2007, and on the last day of each month thereafter until all of the Deferred Compensation Account has been paid, there shall be credited to such Account (before any amount is credited for the month then ending), interest compounded monthly computed at a rate equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of the sum of  (a) the average twenty (20) year Treasury Bond rate of interest (as published in the Wall Street Journal for the last day of the preceding month) plus (b) 1.25 percentage points.

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Mr. Rooney has elected to receive his distributable balance in a lump sum payment upon separation of service.

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)       Exhibits:

In accordance with the provisions of Item 601 of Regulation S-K, any Exhibits filed herewith are set forth on the Exhibit Index attached hereto.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

United States Cellular Corporation
(Registrant)
Date: December 19, 2006
By:	/s/ Steven T. Campbell
	Steven T. Campbell
	Vice President and Controller
	(Principal Accounting Officer)

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EXHIBIT INDEX

The following exhibits are filed herewith as noted below.

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibit
10.1	Executive Deferred Compensation Agreement – Phantom Stock Account for 2007 bonus year between John E. Rooney and U.S. Cellular dated December 13, 2006.
10.2	Executive Deferred Compensation Agreement – Interest Account for 2007 between John E. Rooney and U.S. Cellular dated December 13, 2006.

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EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION AGREEMENT

PHANTOM STOCK ACCOUNT

THIS AGREEMENT, entered into this 13th day of December, 2006, by and between John E. Rooney (hereinafter referred to as the “Executive”) and United States Cellular Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, located at 8410 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60631-3486.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Executive is now and will in the future be rendering valuable services to the Company, and the Company desires to ensure the continued loyalty, service and counsel of the Executive; and

WHEREAS, the Executive desires to defer a portion of his or her annual bonus for services to be performed in calendar year 2007 (the “Bonus Year”) until separation from service, disability, death, a specified date in 2011 or later or unforeseeable emergency.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and agreements herein set forth, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

1.Deferred Compensation Agreement.  The Company agrees to establish and maintain a book reserve (the “Deferred Compensation Account”) for the purpose of measuring the amount of deferred compensation payable to the Executive under this Agreement.  Credits shall be made to the Deferred Compensation Account as follows:

(a)Annual Bonus Deferral.  On each issuance of a check in full or partial payment of the Executive’s annual bonus, if any, for services to be performed in the Bonus Year, there shall be deducted an amount equivalent to 100 percent of the gross bonus payment which will be credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of the date on which such check is to be issued.  Amounts credited to the Deferred Compensation Account pursuant to this paragraph 1(a) (as adjusted for deemed investment returns hereunder) shall be 100% vested at all times.

(b)Company Match. As of each date on which amounts are credited to the Deferred Compensation Account pursuant to paragraph 1(a), there shall also be credited to the Deferred Compensation Account a Company Match amount equal to the sum of (i) 25% of the amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of such date pursuant to paragraph 1(a) which is not in excess of one-half of the Executive’s total gross bonus for the Bonus Year and (ii) 33 1/3% of the amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of such date pursuant to paragraph 1(a) which is in excess of one-half of the Executive’s total gross bonus for the Bonus Year.  One-third of the amount credited to the Executive’s Deferred Compensation Account pursuant to this paragraph 1(b) (as adjusted for deemed investment returns hereunder) shall become vested on each of the first three annual anniversary dates of December 31, 2007, provided that the Executive is an employee of the Company (or an affiliate of the Company) on such date and the amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account pursuant to paragraph 1(a) has not been

withdrawn or distributed before such date.

(c)Deemed Investment of Deferred Compensation Account.  An amount credited to the Deferred Compensation Account pursuant to paragraph 1(a) or 1(b) shall be deemed to be invested in whole and fractional shares of common stock of the Company at the closing sale price on the principal national stock exchange on which such stock is traded on the date as of which the amount is credited to the Deferred Compensation Account or, if there is no reported sale for such date, on the next preceding date for which a sale was reported (the “Fair Market Value”).

(d)The bonus deferral percentage selected in paragraph 1(a) shall be irrevocable.

2.Payment of Deferred Compensation.

(a)On the earlier of (i) the date specified by the Executive in paragraph 2(i), (ii) the date the Executive has a separation from service for whatever reason and (iii) the date the Executive is determined to suffer a disability, the Company shall compute the “Distributable Balance” in the Deferred Compensation Account. This Distributable Balance shall include (i) all bonus deferrals made through the current month and (ii) if the Executive has a separation from service as a result of retirement or death or is determined to suffer a disability, all Company Match amounts credited to the Deferred Compensation Account, or, if the Executive does not have a separation from service or has a separation from service for any other reason and is not determined to suffer a disability, the vested Company Match amounts credited to the Deferred Compensation Account in accordance with the vesting schedule in paragraph 1(b).  For all purposes of this Agreement, the Executive shall be deemed to have a separation from service as a result of retirement if the Executive separates from service on or after attaining his or her Early or Normal Retirement Date under the Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. Pension Plan.

(b)All payments of deferred compensation hereunder will be made in whole shares of common stock of the Company and cash equal to the Fair Market Value of any fractional share.

(c)If the Executive becomes disabled, the Distributable Balance immediately shall become payable to the Executive in accordance with the Executive’s payment election in paragraph 2(g).  A lump sum payment shall be made or installment payments shall commence (as elected by the Executive in paragraph 2(g)) at the time set forth in paragraph 2(f).  For purposes of this Agreement, an Executive shall be deemed to be disabled if the Executive (i) is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months or (ii) is, by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less than three months under an accident and health plan of the Company or one of its affiliates.

(d)If the Executive dies prior to the total distribution of the Distributable Balance, the Company shall pay such Balance, in a lump sum within forty-five (45) days following the Executive’s death, to the Executive’s Designated Beneficiary (as hereinafter defined). However, the Executive may designate in paragraph 2(g) that, if the Executive is married at the time of death and designates his or her spouse as beneficiary, the installment payments specified in paragraph 2(g) immediately shall commence to be paid at the time set forth in paragraph 2(f) or, if previously being paid to the Executive, shall continue to

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be paid to the surviving spouse after the Executive’s death.  If such spouse dies before all payments are made, the remainder of the Distributable Balance shall be paid in a lump sum within forty-five (45) days following the spouse’s death in accordance with any secondary beneficiary designations of the Executive or, if no Designated Beneficiary is then living, as provided in paragraph 3(b).

(e)The Executive must elect in paragraph 2(g) the payment method for receiving his/her Distributable Balance in either a lump sum or in an indicated number of installments. This determination must be made at the time of execution of the Agreement and will apply to the entire Distributable Balance.

(f)In the event the Executive chooses the installment option, the Executive must inform the Company of the number of installments he or she wishes to receive. The installments will be paid quarterly (not to exceed 40 quarters) commencing with the fifteenth day of the first month of the calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which the Executive becomes entitled to payment  (whether by reason of the Executive’s election of a Payment Date pursuant to paragraph 2(i) below or by reason of the Executive’s death or disability).  Installments will then be paid on the fifteenth day of the first month of each succeeding calendar quarter until the entire Distributable Balance has been paid.  For purposes of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), the entitlement to a series of installment payments shall be treated as the entitlement to a single payment as of the date the first installment is scheduled to be paid.  If the Executive chooses the lump sum option, such sum will be paid within forty-five (45) days after the date the Executive becomes entitled to payment.

(g)Election for payment of the Distributable Balance (choose one option):

i)	x	Lump sum distribution; or
ii)	o	Installment Method. The amount of each installment shall be equal to one-         (cannot be less than one-fortieth) of the Distributable Balance immediately preceding the first installment payment.
	Installment payments (to be completed only if item ii) – Installment Method was selected above and you designate your spouse as beneficiary):
	shall		shall not
	be paid or continue to be paid to the Executive’s spouse after the death of the Executive.

(h)The Executive must elect in paragraph 2(i) the payment date for receiving his/her Distributable Balance.  This date is to be either his/her separation from service, or a specified date in 2011 or later.  This determination must be made at the time of execution of the Agreement and will apply to the entire Distributable Balance.

(i)Election of Payment Date (choose one option):

i)	x	Separation from service; or
ii)	o	Specified Date:                 (must be in 2011 or later).
	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the Executive is a key employee and is entitled to payment by reason of a separation from service for

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	a reason other than disability or death, no payment shall be made from the Deferred Compensation Account before the date which is six months after the date of separation from service (or if earlier, the date of death of the Executive). The aggregate amount of any payments which the Executive cannot receive during the six-month period following the Executive’s separation from service due to being a key employee shall be paid to the Executive within forty-five (45) days after the end of such six-month period.
The determination of whether the Executive is a key employee shall be made in accordance with Section 416(i) of the Code as implemented by the guidance provided by the Treasury for Section 409A of the Code with an identification date of December 31.
For all purposes of this Agreement, a “separation from service” shall be a termination of employment within the meaning of the guidance provided by the Treasury for Section 409A of the Code.

(j)In the event of an unforeseeable emergency, the Executive may make withdrawals from the vested amounts in the Deferred Compensation Account but only in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and the related Treasury guidance. An unforeseeable emergency means a severe financial hardship to the Executive resulting from an illness or accident of the Executive, the Executive’s spouse or a dependent (as defined in Section 152(a) of the Code) of the Executive, loss of the Executive’s property due to casualty, or other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Executive. The circumstances that will constitute an emergency will depend upon the facts of each case, but, in any case, payment may not exceed an amount reasonably necessary to satisfy such emergency plus amounts necessary to pay taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated as a result of such payment after taking into account the extent to which such hardship is or may be relieved (a) through reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise, (b) by liquidation of the Executive’s assets, to the extent the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause severe financial hardship or (c) by cessation of deferrals hereunder.  Examples of what are not considered to be unforeseeable emergencies include the need to send an Executive’s child to college or the desire to purchase a home.  Examples of what may be considered to be unforeseeable emergencies include (i) the imminent foreclosure of or eviction from the Executive’s primary residence, (ii) the need to pay for medical expenses, including non-refundable deductibles and the cost of prescription drug medication and (iii) the need to pay for funeral expenses of a spouse or dependent (as defined in Section 152(a) of the Code).

In the event the Company approves the payment of a withdrawal due to an unforeseeable emergency, (a) such payment shall be made by the Company to the Executive in a lump sum within forty-five (45) days after approval of such request and (b) the deferral election made in Section 1(a) of this Agreement shall be cancelled.

(k)The Executive may make a subsequent election to delay the timing or change the form of payment, provided that (a) such election shall not be effective until 12 months after the date on which the election is made; (b) except in the case of elections relating to payments on account of death, disability or unforeseeable emergency, the payment with respect to such election must be deferred for a period of not less than five years from the date such payment would otherwise have been made (or, in the case of installment payments, five years from the date the first amount was scheduled to be paid); and (c) such election cannot be made less than 12 months prior to the date of the scheduled payment (or, in the case of installment payments, 12 months prior to the date the first amount was scheduled to be paid).

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3.Designation of Beneficiaries.

(a)The Executive may designate a beneficiary to receive any amount payable pursuant to paragraph 2(d) (the “Designated Beneficiary”) by executing and filing with the Company during his/her lifetime, a Beneficiary Designation in the form attached hereto.  The Executive may change or revoke any such designation by executing and filing with the Company during his/her lifetime a new Beneficiary Designation.  If the Executive is married and names someone other than his/her spouse (e.g., child) as primary beneficiary, the designation is invalid unless the spouse consents by signing the designated area of the Beneficiary Designation form in the presence of a Notary Public.

(b)If all Designated Beneficiaries predecease the Executive, or, in the case of corporations, partnerships, trusts or other entities which are Designated Beneficiaries, are terminated, dissolved, become insolvent or are adjudicated bankrupt prior to the date of the Executive’s death, or if the Executive fails to designate a beneficiary, then the following persons in the order set forth below shall be the Executive’s beneficiaries:

i)Executive’s spouse, if living; otherwise

ii)Executive’s then living descendants, per stirpes; and otherwise

iii)Executive’s estate.

4.Miscellaneous

(a)Except as provided in paragraph 3 of this Agreement, the right of the Executive or any other person to any payment of benefits under this Agreement may not be assigned, transferred, pledged or encumbered.

(b)If the Company finds that any person to whom any amount is payable under this Agreement is unable to care for his/her affairs because of illness or accident, or is under any legal disability which prevents such person from caring for his or her affairs, any payment due (unless a prior claim therefor shall have been made by a duly appointed guardian, committee or other legal representative) may be made to the spouse, a child, a parent, or a brother or sister of such person, or to any party deemed by the Company to have incurred expenses for such person otherwise entitled to payment, in such manner and proportions as the Company may determine.  Any such payment shall be a complete discharge of the liability of the Company under this Agreement for such payment.

(c)This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.

(d)The Executive is considered to be a general unsecured creditor of the Company with regard to the deferred compensation amounts to which this Agreement pertains.

(e)The deferred amounts under this Agreement are unfunded for all purposes of the Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

(f)The appropriate amounts shall be withheld from any payments made hereunder or from an Executive’s compensation as may be required for purposes of complying with applicable federal, state, local or other tax withholding requirements applicable to the benefits provided hereunder.

(g)This Agreement is subject to the provisions of the United States Cellular Corporation 2005 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as it may be amended from time to time (the “LTIP”), and shall be interpreted in accordance therewith.  This Agreement and the LTIP contain

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the entire understanding of the Company and the Executive with respect to the subject matter hereof.

(h)In the event any provision of this Agreement is held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of the Agreement, and the Agreement must be construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid provision had not been included.

(i)This Agreement is intended to comply with provisions of Section 409A of the Code, as enacted by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, and this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed accordingly.  The Executive and the Company agree that the Company shall have sole discretion and authority to amend or terminate this Agreement, unilaterally, at any time in the future to satisfy any requirements of Section 409A of the Code or guidance provided by the Treasury to the extent applicable to the Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORPORATION

By:

EXECUTIVE

John E. Rooney

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EX-10.2

Exhibit 10.2

EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION AGREEMENT

INTEREST ACCOUNT

THIS AGREEMENT, entered into this 13th day of December, 2006, by and between John E. Rooney, (hereinafter referred to as “Executive”) and United States Cellular Corporation, (hereinafter referred to as “Company”), a Delaware corporation, located at 8410 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 700, Chicago, IL, 60631-3486.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Executive is now and will in the future be rendering valuable services to the Company, and the Company desires to ensure the continued loyalty, service and counsel of the Executive; and

WHEREAS, the Executive desires to defer a portion of his or her salary and/or bonus for services to be performed in calendar year 2007 until separation from service, disability, death, a specified date in 2008 or later or unforeseeable emergency.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and agreements herein set forth, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

1.Deferred Compensation Agreement.  The Company agrees to establish and maintain a book reserve (the “Deferred Compensation Account”) for the purpose of measuring the amount of deferred compensation payable under this Agreement. Credits shall be made to the Deferred Compensation Account as follows:

(a)Gross Salary Deferral.  On each issuance of the Executive’s semi-monthly payroll check for services to be performed in calendar year 2007, (scheduled for the 15th and the last day of each month), there shall be deducted an amount equivalent to 20 percent of the Executive’s gross salary (excluding any bonuses) for the pay period which will be credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of the last day of the month in which such check is to be issued.  The first deduction will occur on the Executive’s semi-monthly payroll check dated January 31, 2007.

(b)Bonus Deferral.  On each issuance of a check in full or partial payment of the Executive’s quarterly sales bonus and annual bonus, if any, for services to be performed in calendar year 2007, there shall be deducted an amount equivalent to         percent of such gross bonus payment which will be credited to the Deferred Compensation Account as of the last day of the month in which such check is to be issued.

(c)Deemed Interest Credited to Deferred Compensation Account.  Commencing on February 28, 2007, and on the last day of each month thereafter until all of the Deferred Compensation Account has been paid, there shall be credited to such Account (before any amount is credited for the month then ending pursuant to paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b)), interest compounded monthly computed at a rate equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of the sum of  (a) the average twenty (20) year Treasury Bond rate of interest (as published in the Wall Street Journal for the last day of the preceding month) plus (b) 1.25 percentage points. Quarterly reports which specify the amount  credited to the Executive’s Deferred

Compensation Account during the previous period (amount deferred plus interest) and the then current balance, shall be provided to the Executive.

(d)Except as provided in paragraph 2(h), the deferred compensation percentage selected in paragraph 1(a) and/or 1(b) shall be in effect for the entire calendar year.  The Executive may not elect to change the percentage until a new calendar year commences.

2.Payment of Deferred Compensation.

(a)If the Executive becomes disabled, the Executive’s Deferred Compensation Account immediately shall become payable to the Executive in accordance with the Executive’s payment election in paragraph 2(e).  A lump sum payment shall be made or installment payments shall commence (as elected by the Executive in paragraph 2(e)) at the time set forth in paragraph 2(d).  For purposes of this Agreement, an Executive shall be deemed to be disabled if the Executive (i) is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months or (ii) is, by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less than three months under an accident and health plan of the Company or one of its affiliates.

(b)If the Executive dies prior to the total distribution of the Deferred Compensation Account, the Company shall pay such Account, in a lump sum within forty-five (45) days following the Executive’s death, to the Executive’s Designated Beneficiary (as hereinafter defined). However, the Executive may designate in paragraph 2(e) that, if the Executive is married at the time of death and designates his or her spouse as beneficiary, the installment payments specified in paragraph 2(e) immediately shall commence to be paid at the time set forth in paragraph 2(d) or, if previously being paid to the Executive, shall continue to be paid to the surviving spouse after the Executive’s death.  If such spouse dies before all payments are made, the balance of the Deferred Compensation Account shall be paid in a lump sum within forty-five (45) days following the spouse’s death in accordance with any secondary beneficiary designations of the Executive or, if no Designated Beneficiary is then living, as provided in paragraph 3(b).

(c)The Executive must elect in paragraph 2(e) the payment method for receiving his/her Deferred Compensation Account in either a lump sum or in an indicated number of installments. This determination must be made at the time of execution of the Agreement and will apply to the entire Deferred Compensation Account.

(d)In the event the Executive chooses the installment option, the Executive must inform the Company of the number of installments he or she wishes to receive. The installments will be paid quarterly (not to exceed 20 quarters) commencing with the fifteenth day of the first month of the calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which the Executive becomes entitled to payment (whether by reason of the Executive’s election of a Payment Date pursuant to paragraph 2(g) below or by reason of the Executive’s death or disability).  Installments will then be paid on the fifteenth day of the first month of each succeeding calendar quarter until the entire Deferred Compensation Account, which includes interest earned during the installment period, has been paid.  For purposes of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), the entitlement to a series of installment payments shall be treated as the entitlement to a single payment as of the date the first installment is scheduled to be paid.  If the Executive chooses the lump sum option, such sum will be paid within forty-five (45) days after the date the Executive becomes entitled to payment.

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(e)Election for payment of the Deferred Compensation Account (choose one option):

i)	x	Lump sum distribution; or
ii)	o	Installment Method. The amount of each installment shall be equal to one-      (cannot be less than one-twentieth) of the value of the Deferred Compensation Account immediately preceding the first installment payment, plus accrued interest compounded monthly for the current calendar quarter.
	Installment payments (to be completed only if item ii) – Installment Method is selected above and you designate your spouse as beneficiary):
	shall		shall not

be paid or continue to be paid to the Executive’s spouse after the death of the Executive.

(f)The Executive must elect in paragraph 2(g) the payment date for receiving his/her Deferred Compensation Account.  This date is to be either his/her separation from service, or a specified date in 2008 or later.  This determination must be made at the time of execution of the Agreement and will apply to the entire Deferred Compensation Account.

(g)Election of Payment Date (choose one option):

i)	x	Separation from service; or
ii)	o	Specified Date:             (must be in 2008 or later).

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the Executive is a key employee and is entitled to payment by reason of a separation from service for a reason other than disability or death, no payment shall be made from the Deferred Compensation Account before the date which is six months after the date of separation from service (or if earlier, the date of death of the Executive).  The aggregate amount of any payments which the Executive cannot receive during the six-month period following the Executive’s separation from service due to being a key employee shall be paid to the Executive within forty-five (45) days after the end of such six-month period.

The determination of whether the Executive is a key employee shall be made in accordance with Section 416(i) of the Code as implemented by the guidance provided by the Treasury for Section 409A of the Code with an identification date of December 31. For all purposes of this Agreement, a “separation from service” shall be a termination of employment within the meaning of the guidance provided by the Treasury for Section 409A of the Code.

(h)In the event of an unforeseeable emergency, the Executive may make withdrawals from the Deferred Compensation Account but only in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and the related Treasury guidance. An unforeseeable emergency means a severe financial hardship to the Executive resulting from an illness or accident of the Executive, the Executive’s spouse or a dependent (as defined in Section 152(a) of the Code) of the Executive, loss of the Executive’s property due to casualty, or other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of the Executive. The circumstances that will constitute an emergency will depend upon the facts of each case, but, in any case, payment may not exceed an amount reasonably necessary to satisfy such emergency plus amounts necessary to pay taxes or penalties reasonably

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anticipated as a result of such payment after taking into account the extent to which such hardship is or may be relieved (a) through reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise, (b) by liquidation of the Executive’s assets, to the extent the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause severe financial hardship or (c) by cessation of deferrals hereunder.  Examples of what are not considered to be unforeseeable emergencies include the need to send an Executive’s child to college or the desire to purchase a home.  Examples of what may be considered to be unforeseeable emergencies include (i) the imminent foreclosure of or eviction from the Executive’s primary residence, (ii) the need to pay for medical expenses, including non-refundable deductibles and the cost of prescription drug medication and (iii) the need to pay for funeral expenses of a spouse or dependent (as defined in Section 152(a) of the Code).

In the event the Company approves the payment of a withdrawal due to an unforeseeable emergency, (a) such payment shall be made by the Company to the Executive in a lump sum within forty-five (45) days after approval of such request and (b) the deferral elections made in Sections 1(a) and 1(b) of this Agreement shall be cancelled for the rest of the calendar year.

(i)The Executive may make a subsequent election to delay the timing or change the form of payment, provided that (a) such election shall not be effective until 12 months after the date on which the election is made; (b) except in the case of elections relating to payments on account of death, disability or unforeseeable emergency, the payment with respect to such election must be deferred for a period of not less than five years from the date such payment would otherwise have been made (or, in the case of installment payments, five years from the date the first amount was scheduled to be paid); and (c) such election cannot be made less than 12 months prior to the date of the scheduled payment (or, in the case of installment payments, 12 months prior to the date the first amount was scheduled to be paid.

3.Designation of Beneficiaries.

(a)The Executive may designate a beneficiary to receive any amount payable pursuant to paragraph 2(b) (the “Designated Beneficiary”) by executing and filing with the Company during his/her lifetime, a Beneficiary Designation in the form attached hereto. The Executive may change or revoke any such designation by executing and filing with the Company during his/her lifetime a new Beneficiary Designation.  If the Executive is married and names someone other than his/her spouse (e.g., child) as primary beneficiary, the designation is invalid unless the spouse consents by signing the designated area of the Beneficiary Designation form in the presence of a Notary Public.

(b)If all Designated Beneficiaries predecease the Executive or, in the case of  corporations, partnerships, trusts or other entities which are Designated Beneficiaries, are terminated, dissolved, become insolvent or are adjudicated bankrupt prior to the date of the Executive’s death, or if the Executive fails to designate a beneficiary, then the following persons in the order set forth below shall be the Executive’s Designated Beneficiaries:

i)Executive’s spouse, if living; or if none

ii)Executive’s then living descendants, per stirpes; or if none

iii)Executive’s estate.

4.Miscellaneous.

(a)Except as provided in paragraph 3 of this Agreement, the right of the Executive or any other person to any payment of benefits under this Agreement may not be assigned, transferred, pledged or encumbered.

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(b)If the Company finds that any person to whom any amount is payable under this Agreement is unable to care for his/her affairs because of illness or accident, or is under any legal disability which prevents the person from caring for his or her affairs, any payment due (unless a prior claim therefor shall have been made by a duly appointed guardian, committee or other legal representative) may be made to the spouse, a child, a parent, or a brother or sister of such person, or to any party deemed by the Company to have incurred expenses for such person otherwise entitled to payment, in such manner and proportions as the Company may determine.  Any such payment shall be a complete discharge of the liability of the Company under this Agreement for such payment.

(c)This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Illinois.

(d)The Executive is considered to be a general unsecured creditor of the Company with regard to the deferred compensation amounts to which this Agreement pertains.

(e)The deferred amounts under this Agreement are unfunded for all purposes of the Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

(f)The appropriate amounts shall be withheld from any payments made hereunder or from an Executive’s compensation as may be required for purposes of complying with applicable federal, state, local or other tax withholding requirements applicable to the benefits provided hereunder.

(g)This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the Company and the Executive with respect to the subject matter hereof.

(h)In the event any provision of this Agreement is held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of the Agreement, and the Agreement must be construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid provision had not been included.

(i)This Agreement is intended to comply with provisions of Section 409A of the Code, as enacted by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, and this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed accordingly.  The Executive and the Company agree that the Company shall have sole discretion and authority to amend or terminate this Agreement, unilaterally, at any time in the future to satisfy any requirements of Section 409A of the Code or guidance provided by the Treasury to the extent applicable to the Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORPORATION

By:

EXECUTIVE

John E. Rooney

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