UK iPod FM Transmitters To Be Legalized
BBC News reports that movement is underway in the UK among communications regulators to remove the silly ban on FM transmitters such as the iTrip, which transmit signals from portable devices so that they can be heard on nearby FM radios. Such devices are currently illegal under a World War II era law designed to prevent radio interference. The devices transmit just a matter of feet, and not very strongly at that.
This is good news and just plain ole common sense. Everyone has them anyway and they do no harm; they might as well be legal.
This is good news and just plain ole common sense. Everyone has them anyway and they do no harm; they might as well be legal.
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My husband and I just got back last night from a trip to England, London, mostly. We made 99% of our commutes on the Tube, and noticed that almost everybody under the age of 30 (and quite a few over that age) were using iPods during their journeys. So much for meeting people on the Tube! ;=)
I think this is a sign that Sony's Walkman was before its time in the 80s. People in Western societies weren't as closed off as they are now.
Hypothetically, in the absence of modern competition, the CD Walkman would probably succeed today as wildly as the iPod has, if technology hadn't already passed it by.
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