The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare workers and public health officials to interact frequently with first responders and at times to act as emergency responders themselves. The crisis underlines the importance…
By Kevin Nida, First Responder Network Authority Senior Public Safety Advisor Over the last decade, the role of today’s fire and rescue service has grown exponentially to meet the changing…
About half the rural population within the U.S. is within the FirstNet coverage footprint for operations using 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority, according to the…
The equipment is expected to offer more capacity than the FirstNet satellite device. Cellular phone and data service on the AT&T network is set to improve here this summer. The…
By Jason Porter, senior vice president, FirstNet Program at AT&T From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, FirstNet – the only nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to and purpose-built for America’s first responders…
By Edward Parkinson, FirstNet Authority Chief Executive Officer Year-round, first responders brave challenges so the rest of us may stay safe. In honor of their hard work and dedication, every…
By Scott Yates, CEO, First Call Ambulance NASHVILLE, TN – When COVID-19 hit, businesses had to find new ways to operate. With most of our employees working on the front…
By David Smith Most of the time when we have issues trying to hear on a cell phone call, we turn into a version of Verizon’s original Test Man (played…
By Tom Shull, Director, Government Affairs, First Responder Network Authority We are proud to release the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year (FY)…
T-Mobile couldn’t meet public safety requirement By ATFN Staff On April 8, 2020 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that T-Mobile could not meet the public safety requirements that were…
By John Saboe, Network Operations Architect, First Responder Network Authority Many of us remember off-key renditions of America the Beautiful from when we were in school, singing about purple mountain majesties, feet…
FirstNet supports more than 1.3 million connections across more than 12,000 agencies, according to figures supplied last week by AT&T, the FirstNet Authority’s nationwide contractor responsible for building the nationwide…
A conversation with Chuck Dowd, Richard Mirgon and Brent Lee about how FirstNet came to be and its usage during the COVID-19 pandemic
A conversation with Martha Ellis, Executive Director PSBTA. The who, when, why etc about the Association
First Responder Fridays with FirstNet, Built with AT&T, Meghan Trainor and her ukulele helped pay tribute to the brave first responders on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic — which includes her aunt who…