Want to listen to radio on your phone? AT&T’s about to make it a lot easier.

AT&T customers who miss listening to FM channels will soon be able to flip on their local stations and listen live anytime they want. Starting with every new Android phone it sells in 2016, AT&T will be activating the receiver inside that's designed to tap into FM signals. Many smartphones today already come with FM chips. In other countries, these get turned on. But not all cellular carriers in the United States support FM radio out-of-the-box. Sprint only began "lighting up" those FM chips in 2013.

Now AT&T is the latest telecommunications company to add support for FM radio, partnering with the company NextRadio to offer access to radio programs that come to you over the traditional airwaves rather than the Internet. NextRadio is an app that adds an FM tuner to your smartphone, letting you select and change channels.