Consumers Wait-Listed for Converter Box Coupons

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Nobody said the transition to digital broadcasting would be easy. However the process just took a turn for the worse for consumers who waited to apply for the government’s $40 converter box coupon.

The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced yesterday that it has hit its funding ceiling. This means consumers will have to wait until coupons that were previously issued hit their 90-day expiration date.

The coupons, of which people can order two per household, were offered as a way to ease the transition

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