The big local phone companies have become the latest casualties of a declining economy, caught between the plunging market and promises made in better times to federal regulators. The largest local ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to competition, wireless phones are everywhere, long-distance rates lower, Web connections faster. When it comes to local phone service, however, most Americans do not get to ...

Western New Yorkers have another choice for local phone service, after Choice One Communications rolled out an offer for residential customers. The alternative phone company, which has targeted ...

Verizon Communications on Thursday began offering VoiceWing, its long-awaited broadband phone service expected to challenge AT&T, Vonage and other top providers of Internet phone calls. The unlimited ...

NEW YORK -- Sprint Corp. is moving to sell local phone service to its cellular and long-distance customers, a belated embrace of the industry's attempts to overcome its tumult by wooing consumers with ...