NAB “stands ready to work” with the FCC “to encourage...
NAB “stands ready to work” with the FCC “to encourage the voluntary inclusion of radio chips in all mobile devices, NAB CEO Gordon Smith wrote in a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski this week. He cited the role radio…
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stations played in distributing weather information during the recent storm that struck the East Coast and Midwest. “NAB believes the time is right for a serious discussion about the voluntary activation of radio chips in cell mobile phones,” Smith said. The CTIA called the plug for FM chips in phones a “shameless attempt to use natural disasters and the misfortune of others” to push a public policy agenda.