After more than half a century of monopoly and public utility–style regulation of retail telephone rates, in the early 1980s the United States embarked on a path of regulatory liberalization.

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The suit mirrors one filed last month by SBC Communications against AT&T. Both stem from a ruling by federal regulators that AT&T had improperly deemed some long-distance calls it carried over the ...