Public Safety Advocate: Hurricanes and Other Disasters
Hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, 2019, and a number of agencies and organizations are formulating their predictions about the potential severity of…
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Public Safety Advocate: Feds, States in Rural Broadband Push
I recently saw a posting on Twitter from the governor of South Dakota announcing her state is requesting proposals to cover “all corners” of the…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Gains, Some Throttling Broadband, More
The latest numbers are out for FirstNet (Built with AT&T) and as expected, they are really good. At the end of the first quarter of…
Public Safety Advocate: Waiting on Mission Critical Push-To-Talk (Data, Video)
According to Motorola, its Kodiak Networks has developed the first Push-To-Talk (PTT) application for on-network use. On-network means the network hosts the application as opposed…
Public Safety Advocate: Updates on What Public Safety Needs from Congress
This week APCO sent out an email asking for all of us to support the 9-1-1 Saves Act. This bill will upgrade 9-1-1 professionals and…
Public Safety Advocate: Will 8,000 New Satellites End the Digital Divide?
FirstNet is required by law to build out in rural America as it builds out in larger markets. This was included in the law passed…
Public Safety Advocate: Milestones and More
Last week marks the two-year anniversary of the FirstNet award to AT&T. It also marks a full year since the Public Safety core (heart of…
Public Safety Advocate: Return of FirstNet Authority and More
Sounds like a strange title until you realize that once the contract was awarded to AT&T to build and maintain the network, those in the…
Public Safety Advocate: Drive Tests, IWCE, and Palmyra Atoll
After a two-week interruption in my scheduled Advocates, this one will hopefully serve to get back on schedule and to convey what we have been doing…
Public Safety Advocate: Jumping the Gun, Unanswered Questions
Note: Because I will be out of the office on Thursday, the usual publication day for the Advocate, this issue is being sent to our subscribers…
Public Safety Advocate: Joining FirstNet
For the last year I have been receiving enquiries from readers and others about what is required to join FirstNet (Built with AT&T) and why…
Public Safety Advocate: Spreading the Word
It’s Valentine’s Day! I hope it is a good one for all of you. Last week’s Advocate drew many good comments about the lack of press…
Public Safety Advocate: Raising Awareness
Sometimes it can be a real challenge to come up with a subject I think would be of interest to my readers. This week seems…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Integration
During the formation of FirstNet and then working with FirstNet to establish the goals of the network, it was always about fostering data and video…
Public Safety Advocate: Speeds and Feeds
Discovery Patterns is the company that graciously provides news searches. By reviewing the results, I can include a list of stories of interest along with…