Everybody agreed it was a great day for the telephone business.

Now it's confident of transferring that success to the telephone business.

Competition is about to sweep into the local telephone business.

If anything, the local telephone business is even harder to penetrate than cable.

The mobile telephone business is one of the most competitive sectors in the American economy.

The Post's problem arose from the company's plan to get into the wireless telephone business.

The regulatory agency is to issue new rules this week that will begin to change the economics of the nation's telephone business.

Here's how he came up with that number: Value the regular telephone business at $49 a share.

But because its telephone business is still regulated, it cannot take such measures without Government approval.

Officials of the communications giant have said that they do not want to compete in the local telephone business.