From: "Casa Isla" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: 9/7/2006 8:49:17 PM
Subject: Ntc Proposed Rulemaking re digital converter boxes

Converter boxes should NOT be limited to a small minority of homes, just
to save our own tax dollars. Why is the NTIA presuming to rewrite
legislative intent?

You would be forcing those folks with satellites, who were forced to buy
that service due to being in poorly served areas, to pay even MORE in order
to get local stations on their satellite box. Worse, when heavy storms
come in and we need to get local weather and news, you would be depriving
those folks of the same chance to get this critical information at all,
unless they buy all new digital receiver equipment !!

Converter boxes should be available to ALL people who attest to the
fact that they watch local stations on rooftop antennae, whether they are
also paying extra for satellite or cable or not. You are discriminating
against people already paying extra because they are in rural or remote
locations, AND you are very wrong if you believe that so-called 'poor'
people don't spend their money on cable or satellite service as well !

Marvin Clegg

Flagler County, Fla.