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FCC wants Apple to enable nonexistant FM radio chip

Sep28
by on September 28, 2017 at 11:37 pm
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today called out Apple for not enabling hidden FM radio features in its iPhones. FM radio chips would allow people cut off from cell service to access vital information — like in a natural disaster the likes of which just pulverized Puerto Rico. Pai quoted an opinion article in the Florida Sun Sentinel titled, “Allow access to smartphones’ hidden radios” which pleaded for Apple’s Tim Cook to activate the little-known FM chips inside iPhones: “We paid for these radio chips when we bought our pricey Apple phones. It’s time to let us turn them on.” The…

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FCC wants Apple to enable nonexistant FM radio chip

Sep28
by on September 28, 2017 at 11:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today called out Apple for not enabling hidden FM radio features in its iPhones. FM radio chips would allow people cut off from cell service to access vital information — like in a natural disaster the likes of which just pulverized Puerto Rico. Pai quoted an opinion article in the Florida Sun Sentinel titled, “Allow access to smartphones’ hidden radios” which pleaded for Apple’s Tim Cook to activate the little-known FM chips inside iPhones: “We paid for these radio chips when we bought our pricey Apple phones. It’s time to let us turn them on.” The…

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