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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, we reported NAB Labs research for the first half of the year found smartphone models that include an embedded FM chip that is not activated still accounted for 69% of the ...

In early August, the NAB published its ideas on proposed terms for the ongoing debate about performance royalties for terrestrial radio stations. The organization has been fighting the performance ...

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 ...

Millions of consumers have switched off their radios in favor of music and commentary streamed over the internet, a trend that many in the terrestrial broadcast industry allege has been bolstered by ...