Public Safety Advocate: Apple’s ProSe Patent, Useful or Useless?
Apple was recently issued a U.S. Patent that will be or won’t be useful to public safety professionals in the field. As always, it will be up to the public…
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Public Safety Advocate: ProSe Panned, Second-Generation PTT, QuickRoute
This week there are a number of items of interest for those involved in public-safety communications. A rugged handheld device company has given up on ProSe while a Push-To-Talk (PTT)…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Deployables
The last week of July is turning out to be a busy one. Most FirstNet (Built with AT&T) “watchers” are busy tracking new public safety Band 14 build-outs and new…
Public Safety Advocate: Marketing Products, Questions to Answer
As you read this Advocate, keep in mind that there are proven ways to bring new products and services to market. For example, once the cost to produce a product is…
Public Safety Advocate: Redefining Push-To-Talk
The Best of Andy. First published in March of 2022. With Push-to-Talk interoperability in the spotlight, we thought it was time to revisit the topic as the next in “The…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet (Built with AT&T) Announces More Communications Tools
At IWCE 2022, FirstNet announced a new, significant upgrade to FirstNet (Built with AT&T) that prompted me to write about communications tools for first responders. One of these tools is…
Public Safety Advocate: More IWCE, Throwback April Fool’s, Rural Broadband
I am disappointed that I cannot find the archived article I wrote a number of years ago and published on April Fool’s Day. I had described how I was at…
Public Safety Advocate: IWCE, Who Will Be First to Implement Truly Unified PTT? More IWCE Next Week
The IWCE made a triumphant return with IWCE 2022! Some may say it was smaller than earlier IWCEs or perhaps the show floor did not have as many vendors, but…
Public Safety Advocate: Redefining Push-To-Talk, Reader Survey
The Webster Dictionary defines “Unified” as “Brought together as one.” Under the public-safety Incident Command (IC) structure, “Unified” means “Unified Command (UC): In incidents involving multiple jurisdictions, a single jurisdiction with multiagency involvement,…
THE LARGEST POLICE-COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECT IN HISTORY – NATIONAL FAITH & BLUE WEEKEND
”Faith-based organizations and law enforcement groups are uniquely and deeply tied to their communities and it is through collaborative and respectful dialogue that common ground can be found,” says Jason…
Public Safety Advocate: Nationwide Interoperability, FirstNet Authority 2022 Budget
Introduction The imminent release of Motorola’s 3GPP-compliant (sans ProSe) Push-To-Talk (PTT) will be the second 3GPP-compliant PTT application available on FirstNet (Built with AT&T). With seven other PTT applications already…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Off-Network Communications Solutions RFI, L3Harris, HPUE
APCO 2021 The APCO 2021 conference is taking place in San Antonio this week. Many attendees come from the public-safety community or are involved in some way with public-safety communications….
Public Safety Advocate: PTT vs. MCPTT, 5G Sweet Spot, FirstNet Apps Verified/Certified, 4.9 GHz, Fiber, and More
First, some clarification. “Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk” (MCPTT) is the form of Push-To-Talk (PTT) the 3GPP standards body developed in accordance with its PTT standard. However, networks, including FirstNet (Built with AT&T),…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Growth, Another MCPTT Option, FirstNet 10-Year Anniversary Soon, 4.9 GHz
This week we will look at the numbers as FirstNet (Built with AT&T) continues to add more agencies and users and we will discuss its plans to support another Push-To-Talk…
Public Safety Advocate: Who Knows Best, PTT Update, FirstNet/LMR Interoperability
Who knows more about what public-safety and critical-communications users need? I think the answer has changed several times over the years, and today it is those within the public-safety community…