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DTV Transition Partially Occurs, World Doesn’t End – Federal call center easily handles user calls, problems…
In: Communication|Computer|Hardware|Site Feeds|Software|VoIP
21 Feb 2009
About 421 of the nation’s roughly 1,800 stations made the transition to digital broadcasts on the originally scheduled date (February 17), and so far the world has continued rotating. Fears that consumers weren’t ready for the switch resulted in Congress extending the deadline into June, though TV stations were given the right to cut over ahead of the deadline — as long as they got permission from the FCC. According to the Associated Press, the Federal call center created to handle user problems (1-888-CALL-FCC) easily handled call volumes and got fewer calls (28,000) than expected (100,000).
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1 Response to DTV Transition Partially Occurs, World Doesn’t End – Federal call center easily handles user calls, problems…
Imee
February 25th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Yeah, it wasn’t that much of a big deal as everyone anticipated it to be. The worst that could happen is that emergency announcements won’t be heard by those that still have analog.