Doing a quick search has surfaced an item on this issue from a year ago. That article had this: But Jot Carpenter, vice president of government affair

Doing a quick search has surfaced an item on this issue from a year ago. That article had this: But Jot Carpenter, vice president of government affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association, resists the move to turn on the FM chip. At a NAB convention in Las Vegas this week, Carpenter said there would have to be demand by smartphone consumers for mobile carriers to consider switching on the FM chip. "What Americans really want is the ability to stream, download and customize music playlists to meet their personal preferences," Carpenter said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "and that's not what the traditional FM radio offers." There were 100 comments on this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395944 And a further 6 comments on this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396631 It would be interesting to compare this thread with those threads from 450 days ago to see if anything has changed in the HN community mind.