NTIA: The Coupons are in the Mail

NTIA: THE COUPONS ARE IN THE MAIL
[SOURCE: Associated Press]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced Friday that it will begin mailing out $40 coupons next week to consumers to help pay for converter boxes that will save their analog sets from becoming obsolete. TV viewers who get their programming over an antenna and are not connected to cable or satellite will need a converter box when full-power broadcast stations begin transmitting digital-only signals in February 2009. An estimated 13 million to 21 million U.S. households are in the analog-set set. More than 9,700 stores, including those operated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Target Corp. and RadioShack Corp., will be selling the special equipment in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Consumers have 90 days to use the coupons, which resemble plastic gift cards, or they expire. The expiration date comes too quickly for many on Capitol Hill, who are sure to hear from constituents tangled in the transition.
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