Here we go again.
We got lots of calls and e-mails about a story we ran in January on why cable television rates rise every year, with or without inflation. The key factor is that, where there is no competition for cable service, the rates are typically higher than where two or more companies battle for customers.
Now comes a warning in today's Wall Street Journal that telephone rates may be headed the same way. The story very aptly notes that the merger of Verizon Communications and MCI Inc. and SBI Communications Inc.'s deal to take over
