[opendtv] Re: New DTV Coupon Applicants Heading to Waiting List
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:57:29 -0500
At 9:18 PM -0500 1/5/09, John Shutt wrote:
According to an FCC rep who spoke at our Station last week during
our soft cutoff test, IBM (the company administering the NTIA coupon
program) mail out new coupons as unredeemed coupons expire. That is
the only bottleneck holding up mailing out coupons.
John
Hmmmmmm...
Guess this is to be expected in a land where good sense and logic do
not apply...
where the unintended consequences are more important than the intended ones.
Many industries "over book" based on the marketplace reality that a
sizeable percentage of applicants will not complete the transaction.
I'm not sure why we needed all of this overhead - seems that stores
could have logged into a database to verify that a potential purchase
did not exceed the 2 per household allocation - its not you can put
one of these boxes on e-bay and make a profit...
Regards
Craig
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