{"id":408719,"date":"2017-09-29T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/28\/fcc-chairman-apple-enable-fm-iphones-emergencies\/21|23226426"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:46:00","slug":"fcc-chairman-wants-apple-to-enable-fm-in-iphones-for-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/fcc-chairman-wants-apple-to-enable-fm-in-iphones-for-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chairman wants Apple to enable FM in iPhones for emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a new push by Pai to get FM enabled in smartphones, either. &#8220;In recent years, I have repeatedly called on the wireless industry to activate the FM chips that are already installed in almost all smartphones sold in the United States,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/chairman-pai-urges-apple-activate-fm-chips-promote-public-safety\">said<\/a>. &#8220;And I&#8217;ve specifically pointed out the public safety benefits of doing so.&#8221; In his first public speech as FCC chairman, Pai notes, he said that &#8220;you could make a case for activating chips on public safety grounds alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/28\/16379316\/fcc-iphone-fm-radio-activation-request-ajit-pai\"><em>The Verge<\/em> notes<\/a>, many companies, including Motorola, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/10\/lg-might-finally-enable-fm-radios-in-us-phones\/\">LG<\/a> and Samsung (among others), have allowed for FM access in their smartphones. Many are on the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/nextradioapp.com\/supported-devices\/\">supported devices<\/a> provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/01\/09\/sprint-fm-radio-and-entertain-me\/\">NextRadio<\/a>, a smartphone app that provides FM broadcasts to smartphones. AT&amp;T already asks manufacturers of Android phones to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/29\/att-to-require-fm-radio-in-android-phones\/\">enable the FM systems<\/a>, too. &#8220;I applaud those companies that have done the right thing by activating the FM chips in their phones,&#8221; said Pajit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a new push by Pai to get FM enabled in smartphones, either. &#8220;In recent years, I have repeatedly called on the wireless industry to activate the FM chips that are already installed in almost all smartphones sold in the United States,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I&#8217;ve specifically pointed out the public safety benefits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":408720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-408719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}