Less than half of Canada's top selling smartphones have FM chip activated: NABA

TORONTO and WASHINGTON, DC – Only 30% of the top selling smartphones in Canada have their FM chip activated, and that excludes iPhones, says new research from the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA).The organization said that most of the top-selling smartphones in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico include an FM chip, meaning the devices can receive free, over-the-air FM radio signals if the chip is activated. But for a variety of reasons, these FM chips are often not activated, most notably in all of Apple’s iPhone products (which are top sellers). In Q1 2016 in Canada, 37.7% of smartphones have an...