Discusses Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) in terms of skirting regulations and taxes that traditional telephone companies must comply with and pay. Users do not have to pay into the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service in rural areas.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06823
Notes:
Pages 297-308 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Hudson, Heather E. (author) and Parker, Edwin B. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16748
Notes:
306 pages, Role of rural telecommunications infrastructures in economic development; recommendations for state development agencies. Prepared for the Ford Foundation and the Rural Economic Policy Program, Aspen Institute.
USA: Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11767
Notes:
Full FCC report at http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/ruralbroadband, Via online from publisher. 2 pages., "Report to Congress important building block for national broadband plan"
