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.
Hooker, Neal H. (author), Ernst, Stan (author), Berning, Casie (author), and Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2004-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25712
International Food Information Council (author) and International Food Information Council, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2004-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21921
Notes:
Executive Summary, 8 pages., Fifth in a series of snapshots of media coverage of food news. Compares leading food-related topics from 1995 through 2003.
Addresses the negative aspects of promoting informed health choices through a medium inaccessible to all members of Canadian society, such as the aged, the poor, rural dwellers and some ethnic minorities.
