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.

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.

SHARONVILLE, OH — If you have older parents or grandparents, chances are they still use an old school landline phone. But that will soon change, whether they want it to or not. It's the result of an ...

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 ...