When customers complain to their telephone carrier, some telephone companies are now warn that there might be a financial crime associated with these calls as well.

FORBES: Cybercriminals Phone It In

That might be persuasive if the full weight of America's common-carrier rules as they apply to the telephone business, with all the micro-management they involve, were dumped on the cable industry.

ECONOMIST: Beware the gatekeeper

NTT's network altogether, SpeedNet will avoid having to pay the dominant carrier's interconnection charges, which independent telephone companies reckon amount to a third of their total operating costs.

ECONOMIST: Japanese Telecoms

Canaan is one of 700 reservation phone agents for discount carrier JetBlue who don't work in some telephone warehouse in New Mexico or in an office in Bangalore, India.

FORBES: The Slipper Solution

The copper telephone line that ran to every house was regulated as a common carrier.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

And so, there was never any worry that a carrier, whether it was a cable company or a telephone company, was helping one website, or one portal over the other.

NPR: Opinion Page: Network Neutrality on the Internet

Crandall's just finished a telephone call when Donald Burr--founder of People Express, the upstart discount carrier that soared and then crashed--bolts through the door, his paisley tie and loafer tassels flapping.

FORBES: A700's Numbers