Sprint Nextel Corp. announced a preliminary arrangement with representatives of the American radio industry that will enable Sprint customers to listen to local FM radio stations from a broad spectrum of radio companies and aggregators on select Android and Windows smartphones during the next three years. FM radio could be delivered through the NextRadio tuner application or other radio apps or services.

As part of this plan, Sprint customers could use their smartphones and the NextRadio tuner to listen to local FM radio stations. With the NextRadio tuner-expected to be available later in 2013-Sprint customers would enjoy a wide range of interactive listener features and would have the availability of local FM radio at their fingertips to access all forms of broadcast information.