Getting the Latest News on Your Phone

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The news is happening right now, 24/7. There is no time when something interesting isn’t happening in the world, and if you want to be a part of it you have to stay connected. The best thing about the modern world is how you can get the news on your phone all the time, no matter where you are. It’s almost impossible to be out of the loop, no matter how far you are from civilization.

For starters, prepaid cell phones still allow you to access the Internet in most cases. You can get alerts sent to you, like texts whenever something you’d find interesting happens. You can know things that you would never have found out about in the old days, because your phone will let you know everything. You can have news portals like Bloomberg streaming everything that’s new in the world at all times, so you can just turn it on and be in the know. It’s that simple.

What’s really great about today’s cell phones is that you can actually choose the type of news sent to you. While one kind of news might be great to have, there might also be tons of news that just doesn’t interest you. If politics or natural disasters aren’t your thing, you can set your phone to ignore those stories and just send you what you’re most interested in reading about. Your phone is like a well trained dog.

Radio News Important to Cell Phone Users

Radio news is so important to each market’s individual listeners that members of the National Association of Broadcasters are lobbying commerce and judiciary committees in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to make free radio available through cellular phones. The hope is that the government will allow the installation of chips to access FM radio broadcasts in cellular phones and other mobile devices.

The need for free radio broadcasting over mobile devices is more apparent in areas hit by natural disasters or suffering crisis situations. Residents living in these areas when disaster have struck relied heavily on radio news for vital and lifesaving information. In many instances, the free news services offered in radio broadcasts are the only stream of important information available when television and computers have been knocked off the electricity grids. Hurricanes Katrina and Ike are examples of those types of situations when radio news would be vital to saving many people’s lives.

It is scenarios such as these that make the need for providing free radio news services via cellular phones urgent and necessary. The NAB has come up against some opposition in their quest to offer these services, though. Providers of cellular phone services prefer to shut out free radio in many cases, offering alternative services through apps which generate profits for the provider companies. They also earn a few bucks for the companies that contract with the cellular service providers.

Depriving these companies of profits is not the intention of the NAB. Radio broadcasters simply want to offer cellular phone customers what they already have- free radio news broadcasts. They just want to offer the services in an additional way, allowing more residents to receive important local news updates and information in real time with rapid streaming through their mobile devices.

The addition of these FM radio chips could save lives in emergency and crisis situations. Having a device that continues to operate, can travel with a person and keeps him or her up to date with important information could make the difference between life and death in some circumstances.

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