Public Safety Advocate Weekly News
Fri Aug 26 14:25:56 2016 I missed APCO, but I have been following the many articles and tweets and gained a sense of the flavor of the conference. It sounds…
Fri Aug 26 14:25:56 2016 I missed APCO, but I have been following the many articles and tweets and gained a sense of the flavor of the conference. It sounds…
Fri Aug 12 13:55:23 2016 Fact Checking During my last few years of high school and first years of college I worked for my father who was a pioneer in…
Sat Aug 6 13:09:16 2016 Bitten by an Internet Outage Long, sad, story, the end result of which was an Internet outage that lasted the better part of two days!…
Fri Jul 29 13:53:55 2016 On July 28, 2016, I presented a webinar for IWCE/Urgent Communications entitled, “The Transition from LMR to LTE.” I have to admit if I had…
Fri Jul 22 11:06:07 2016 NTIA Publishes State Opt-Out Guidelines This week NTIA released a document that will have a significant impact on states considering opting out. The NTIA’s document,…
Thu Jul 14 20:00:39 2016 The annual APCO conference is only about a month away. It is being held in Orlando this year and the agenda looks as though it…
Fri Jul 8 12:58:39 2016 As you can see from the subject line we are still experimenting with our title. It now appears as though “Advocate” is a word a…
Fri Jul 1 13:35:02 2016 Preparing for the Network This week FirstNet held both its committee and board of director’s meetings in Chicago. During these meetings, FirstNet put a number…
Thu Jun 23 20:08:23 2016 On Tuesday, June 21, 2016, the U. S. Senate had its chance to call on FirstNet and others to provide updates on progress being made….
Fri Jun 17 12:36:32 2016 We now know who at least two of the FirstNet bidders are. In addition to the announcement by Rivada and its partners, Pacific Data Vision…
Fri Jun 10 15:08:20 2016 The PSCR Recap, followed by RFP Submission Facts, Fantasies, and Rumors The Public Safety Communications Research Lab (PSCR), which is part of the National Institute…
Fri Jun 3 11:46:14 2016 Any and all FirstNet RFP responses were to have been submitted by this past Tuesday. However, there seems to be some confusion over if and…
Thu May 26 19:47:39 2016 Each state has the right to opt out of the plan FirstNet and the selected partner vendor presents to it. However, it the state does…
Fri May 13 11:59:51 2016 It has been a relatively quiet week in the Public Safety communications space. That is not to say there is not a lot happening around…
Fri May 6 14:07:29 2016 Unlike CNN, I won’t be posting a clock with a countdown to the day and time responses to the FirstNet partnership RFP are due at…