Dingell, Markey: NTIA Not Prepared For Unredeemed DTV Coupons

Dingell-gram for Ms. Meredith Baker. House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and telecom Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) have sent National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Meredith Baker a letter suggesting that the NTIA's digital-to-analog convertor box coupon program has been mismanaged and is going to run out of money. The chairman want to know how NTIA will resolve a big problem: NTIA has $160 million to process and mail out 33.5 million $40 coupons. But millions of coupons are going unredeemed -- $3 million worth have already expired, according to the NTIA -- and the chairmen are concerned that there aren't administrative funds to process the re-cycling of those coupons for new requests.
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