COLUMBUS -- In response to hearings held Tuesday in the Ohio General Assembly, a group of advocacy organizations said legislation to deregulate local telephone service statewide will hurt consumers.

MADISON - Local phone service providers in Racine County, as well as across Wisconsin, are bracing for battle against long-distance carriers who want cheaper access to local phone lines. Wisconsin ...

Competitive phone rates locally may have received a boost Monday when the Supreme Court upheld part of federal requirements on how companies that were once part of the old Bell phone system lease ...

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.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a key part of the government's effort to give Americans choices for local telephone service. The ruling keeps costs low for companies that want to get ...

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 ...