{"id":24230,"date":"2017-02-17T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24230"},"modified":"2017-02-17T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:16:30","slug":"activating-mobile-phone-fm-fcc-chairman-ajit-pais-remarks-at-nab-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/activating-mobile-phone-fm-fcc-chairman-ajit-pais-remarks-at-nab-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating mobile phone FM: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s remarks at NAB symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Aaron Kuhn, who shares the following:<\/p>\n

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s remarks at the North American Broadcasters Association’s Future of Radio and Audio Symposium from today have been posted at<\/p>\n

http:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Business\/2017\/db0216\/DOC-343529A1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

I found the most interesting info in the statement is only 44% of the top selling smartphones in the US have an FM Chip activated have them activated. This figure pales in comparison to Mexico, where 80% of the top selling smartphones have the FM Radio chip activated.<\/p>\n

Chair Pai goes on to state:<\/p>\n

“You could make a case for activating chips on public safety grounds alone. The former head of our Federal Emergency Management Administration has spoken out in support of this proposal.<\/p>\n

[…]I\u2019ll keep speaking out about the benefits of activating FM chips. Having said that, as a believer in free markets and the rule of law, I cannot support a government mandate requiring activation of these chips. I don\u2019t believe the FCC has the power to issue a mandate like that, and more generally I believe it\u2019s best to sort this issue out in the marketplace. For despite the low numbers, we are seeing progress; in the last two years, the percentage of top-selling smartphones in the United States that have activated FM chips has risen from less than 25% to 44%. “<\/p>\n

Which leads me to this question for the SWLing Post community: would the benefits, emergency and otherwise, of mandated, activated FM Receiver Chips in new Smartphones sold outweigh the free market arguments?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feel free to share your comments!<\/p>\n

Please note:<\/em><\/strong> our SWLing Post<\/em> comment moderators keep this site a safe haven from partisan politics–after all, we’re here to talk and play radio! Sometimes, however, local\/international politics and radio intersect, but please leave partisan<\/em> discussions or any animosity for specific politicians for a political site. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Aaron Kuhn, who shares the following: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s remarks at the North American Broadcasters Association’s Future of Radio and Audio Symposium from today have been posted at http:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Business\/2017\/db0216\/DOC-343529A1.pdf I found the most interesting info in the statement is only 44% of the top selling smartphones in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3],"tags":[5367,2128,1241,1584,1384,1650],"class_list":["post-24230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","tag-aaron-kuhn","tag-ajit-pai","tag-fcc","tag-fm","tag-fm-radio","tag-fm-radio-android"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6iO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28605,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/fcc-asks-apple-to-activate-iphone-fm-receivers\/","url_meta":{"origin":24230,"position":0},"title":"FCC asks Apple to activate iPhone FM receivers","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Dan Van Hoy, who forwards the following story from The Verge: FCC chairman Ajit Pai wants Apple to turn on the FM radio that\u2019s hidden inside of every iPhone. 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