Public Safety Advocate: Lack of Broadband PTT Interoperability, T-Mobile, Ligado
Recently, there has been a flurry of articles in the press, on Twitter, and on LinkedIn touting the advantages of Push-To-Talk over Broadband (PTT over…
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Public Safety Advocate: Bluetooth 5.0, Public-Safety Communications Report Card
Bluetooth, developed by Ericsson and named for a Danish Warlord, has become a part of almost every wireless device. Originally, Ericsson determined it could not…
Public Safety Advocate: HPUE—What It Does, How It Works, What Is Available
How much and where will High-Power User Equipment (HPUE) devices provide additional coverage? This week’s Advocate about HPUE is divided into sections. The first discusses the impact…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet, FCC, Congress, HPUE
FirstNet I have been following FirstNet (Built with AT&T) COVID-19 activities closely and from what I have seen, FirstNet has really stepped up. When we…
Public Safety Advocate: It Takes a Disaster to Prompt a Change
It took a long time to establish FirstNet, will it take as long to close the Digital Divide? In our history, there have been many…
Public Safety Advocate: Open Letter to Congress—Public Safety Needs Your Help Now
Dear Members of the U.S. House and Senate: There are bills pending in both the House and Senate that need your attention now! We understand you…
Public Safety Advocate: LMR and FirstNet, NOT LMR Migrating to FirstNet Only Anytime Soon
There has been a lot of activity over the last few weeks around both Land Mobile Radio Push-To-Talk (LMR PTT) and FirstNet/LTE PTT with the…
Public Safety Advocate: What’s Up with the FCC?
I have been commenting about the FCC chairman seeming to feel many segments of our spectrum resources need to be opened up for access to…
Public Safety Advocate: Intra-Operable Networks, T-Mobile Ex Parte Filing
Regular Public Safety Advocate followers are probably familiar with an expression I picked up years ago that remains true today: “Paper does not refuse ink.” It is…
Public Safety Advocate: Adding Wireless Routers, Broadband Overload, High-Power User Equipment
First, a sincere thank you to public-safety professionals for putting others’ lives ahead of your own, and thanks to the professionals in Emergency Communications Centers…
Public Safety Advocate: Disasters, Interoperability, FirstNet Updates, What’s Still Missing
FirstNet was created to facilitate cross-agency public-safety communications, no matter where agencies are called to serve. The rationale behind FirstNet is to enable a team…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Appoints CEO, Reality of FirstNet Coverage, T-Band
A few hours before time to email this week’s Advocate I was informed that finally, after what seems forever, The FirstNet Authority has appointed Ed Parkinson to…
Public Safety Advocate: Networks, Devices, Push-To-Talk
Over the next few months, but not every week, I will be expanding on this week’s article about Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks and commercial…
Public Safety Advocate: The 5G Wedding Cake, More Networks/Less Interoperability, Open Standards
I recently commented here about T-Mobile and others confusing both the public-safety community and the citizens of the United States with its lack of specifics…
Public Safety Advocate: A Tale of Three States
There is only one vetted and approved FirstNet public-safety broadband network and it was created as a private/public partnership by Congress. It is NOT a commercial broadband…