Will cable and phone companies really be fighting to get your local telephone business? The Florida Legislature passed a bill this month that is supposed to bring about such competition. Along with ...

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.

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 ...