IBM won’t comment on its negotiations with the NTIA to set contra...
IBM won’t comment on its negotiations with the NTIA to set contract terms for mailing more coupons than the program’s original 33.5 million, spokesman Fred McNeese told us Thursday. The IBM contract allows NTIA to increase the number of…
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coupons distributed at the price stated in the contract, unless IBM or the NTIA disagrees (CD July 14 p2). The NTIA also won’t comment on the substance of the negotiations, spokesman Todd Sedmak said. IBM had mailed 19.1 million coupons through Tuesday, the NTIA reported. After 20 million, IBM will be paid nothing for mailing the last 2.5 million coupons in the program’s “initial” phase, the contract said. After those run out, a “contingent” phase will release 11.25 million coupons for households that get TV by antenna alone. The contract pays IBM $3.60 for each of the first 5 million contingent coupons it mails, and $2.84 for each of the remaining 6.25 million.