Public Safety Advocate: T-Band, FirstNet Updates, Laptops and Tablets
First and vitally important to eleven major cities and their metro areas, both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate have introduced bills cancelling the T-band…
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Public Safety Advocate: Public-Safety Grade, Batteries and Generators
In May of 2014, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) published a report entitled, “Defining Public Safety Grade Systems and Facilities.” I was fortunate…
Public Safety Advocate: IACP Conference and Show Floor
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference was held in Chicago this year and it was, I believe, better attended by both the…
Public Safety Advocate: IACP, Network Interoperability, FirstNet Board
Publication of next week’s Advocate will be delayed a few days while I attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference/convention in Chicago beginning…
Public Safety Advocate: Broadband in Rural Areas—Why They Keep Getting It Wrong!
Today I read an article in Inside Towers that discusses a recent survey of 2,000 row-crop, livestock, and specialty-crop farmers. The survey shows that 60-percent of those…
Public Safety Advocate: LMR, FirstNet PTT Operational Concerns
I recently became aware of growing concerns related to interconnecting Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks with any LTE network including the FirstNet (LTE) network. Some…
Public Safety Advocate: Network Interoperability?
This is the month of public safety’s “10-codes.” These 10-codes were used effectively for many years and are now being replaced with verbal commands. With…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Investments, HPUE, an Omission
I will start with the omission from last week’s Advocate where I detailed the most important items for which public safety needs assistance from various federal…
Public Safety Advocate: Public Safety Needs Federal Action Now!
Again, last week was the eighteenth anniversary of 9/11 and the start of a larger movement by the public-safety community to fix its communications systems….
Public Safety Advocate: 9/11, Rural Broadband, Datacast
Above all else, this week was the anniversary of the terrible tragedies of 9/11. For public safety, 9/11 was also the beginning of a nationwide…
Public Safety Advocate: Interference at the Southern Border
In opening, I would like to welcome our new subscribers. The topics we cover relate to wireless communications, especially as used by public safety, and…
Public Safety Advocate: NG911, More Public-Safety Hall of Fame Nominees
Last week I attended the State of Arizona PSAP/Integration Planning Meeting held in Phoenix. It was well attended and the content was right on target….
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Five-Year “Roadmap,” Devices at APCO
As promised, the FirstNet Authority has published its five-year reinvestment roadmap as approved by the board of directors some time ago. Official publication had been…
Public Safety Advocate: APCO Conference
As advertised last week, this week’s Advocate is late because I spent much of the week at the APCO Conference in Baltimore. Having been raised on the…
Public Safety Advocate: FCC Recognizes Wireless, FirstNet Priority, Santa Barbara
After a week of travel, it’s nice to be back in Phoenix but Santa Barbara still feels like my home and I enjoyed interacting with…