News by Ricky Cadden on Saturday May 10, 2008. Note: Sponsored advertising links, if any, are in green. The Sony Ericsson R300 Radio has blasted through the FCC with its AM/FM radio and dedicated loudspeaker.
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I am surprised that this could get approved without a rival am/fm radio cell phone by another manufacturer in the marketplace.
Now Sony Ericsson has a monopoly on the am/fm radio cell phone industry. This is the only device that can do this. How else could anyone be able to listen to am/fm radio via their cell phone?
I would think that at least one other company should be offering this before the approval. The consumer is forced to buy this phone if they want am/fm radio. Plus am/fm radio is needed for public safety.
Is everyone going to be guaranteed access to minority bandwidth with this new am/fm phone?
Shouldn't they also allow any other cell phone company to make this phone?
Shouldn't the consumer have the choice to only have access to dial numbers ala carte style? Why should you want to be able to dial any number when you really only need 10 or 20?
How was this approved so quickly? I thought it took over a year to get anything approved by the fcc.
Where are the politicians and the NAB to stop this monopoly on am/fm radio cell phone devices? Who is going to protect the consumer?
(Just think. If the Sirius/XM merger would have gone through - potential Sony would have been offering a cell phone with satellite radio instead of an am/fm model.)