In the sense that if consumers want FM radio, just about every car stereo has FM radio, there are FM radios in many MP3 players, and you can go into RadioShack and buy a little FM radio for about $5.
Saying that carriers oppose FM radios because they want to charge for streaming services is a red herring; consumers just aren't scrambling for FM radio on their phones.
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I don't pay Verizon for streaming services, I have plenty of apps that I can stream audio & video, I just pay Verizon for data, that's it.
One thing I most certainly DON'T miss about FM is the static!!!
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Wanting or not wanting an FM Radio isn't the point, its mandating it. If they do want a mandate, let the broadcasters and music industry pay for, see how this BS goes away. And like a previous poster, on my Nokia's maybe only used it once or twice.
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Precisely, I used to have the Nokia N95, as you may recall, and I listened to my personal music collection a whole lot more than I did the FM radio.
Now a days people are acustomed to more personalized music experience.
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It's also nonsense because there are already tons of phones out there with FM radios if someone actually wants to choose one, including both extremely expensive and extremely cheap models.
There is absolutely no reason to propose this law other than to push their service into the hands of people who didn't ask for it.
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Again, I have no bitch about fm radios in my phone, probably won't use it. But we don't need the government to tell us we have to have it, so a bunch of rich media exec's can maintain their standard of living.
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I believe the bigger issue is not that carriers want to charge for FM over IP, but that manufacturers don't want to have to put in yet another antenna into their devices. It adds cost, makes design a more difficult agenda, and adds a feature which is of little value to the consumer. It isn't often I agree with carriers (although I work for one) but in this case, they are right. They are being asked to be the victim in a dispute that has absolutely, 100% nothing to do with them.
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MennoAug 27, 2010, 3:51 PM
They're terrible.
So why would you get a crappy radio stuffed into every phone.. if anything, that is the quickest way to tell people that FM is dead.
If they were smart, they would pair with Apple, HTC, or Motorola and put an HD radio chip (high quality) into it and sell it as a feature
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Besides, FM needs wired headsets to work as antennas... 😳 Crappy...
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