FCC chairman Ajit Pai has advocated for the activation of FM radio receivers built into nearly every smartphone, as part of opening remarks he made at the Future of Radio and Audio Symposium in ...

The IT Ministry's advice was ambiguous over whether it wanted manufacturers to put radio receivers in smartphones or just in feature phones. (Photo Credits: Reuters) The Ministry of Electronics and ...

Did you know that your smartphone is also an FM radio? That’s right; today’s smartphones have a built-in FM chip that gives them the ability to receive radio signals in your area. This means you ...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has brought a previously hidden iPhone feature to light. Almost all smartphones have an FM receiver chip built into their hardware. It's actually the ...

Some models of Blackberry smartphones already have FM radio receivers built in – but they haven’t been activated. Until now. Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) announced at the Consumer ...

FM radio — is that still a thing? We’re mostly kidding, but many of us don’t have (or miss having) FM radio functionality on our smartphones these days, not when we have services like Spotify, Pandora ...

If you're trying to rock out to the radio on your smartphone, you're undoubtedly using an Internet stream—something like Beats 1, instead of spinning a digital dial to your favorite frequency and ...

a) that Report ITU-R BT.2299 provides a compilation of supporting evidence that terrestrial broadcasting plays a critically important role in disseminating information to the public in times of ...

Electronics manufacturers and wireless phone companies have been resisting any government mandate to include FM receiver chips in cellular telephones. There are, however, some phones available which ...

The Indian government has reiterated the importance of including FM radio receivers in mobile phones sold in India. “The FM Radio is one of the communication links between the authorities and people ...

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