FM Radio

In the wake of three major hurricanes that have wiped out communications for millions of people over the past month, Ajit Pai, the Chairman of Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has called on Apple to activate the FM radio chip on every iPhone in the name of public safety, Bloomberg is reporting. "I hope the company will reconsider its...

According to a report from MobileSyrup, Canada’s National Campus and Community Radio Station (NCRA) launched a petition to try and get Rogers, Bell and Telus to unlock the FM radio receiver on Canadian smartphones. The campaign by the NCRA already has support from the CBC and NextRadio, which assisted in launching an identical campaign in...