OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Local telephone service providers are eager to get into the long-distance market, while giants like AT&T consider scaling back their long-distance business. AT&T has considered ...

Rules that force firms to share every resource or element of a business would create, not competition, but pervasive regulation, for the regulators, not the marketplace, would set the relevant terms.

Sprint Corp. announced yesterday that it will begin reselling local telephone service in the District and 36 states, including Virginia and Maryland, in a move that could put more pressure on other ...

Tom Bearden reports on the changes to state and federal law that have allowed U.S. residents the option to change their local telephone service. Ten Cate is one of ten million phone customers who have ...

A U.S. appeals court yesterday struck down key elements of a Federal Communications Commission rule governing local telephone competition, handing a major legal victory to the regional telecom giants ...