By Brent Williams, Senior EMS Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Junction City Fire Department’s EMS services a rural, Midwest community in Kansas, which presents some communication challenges. To address these…
Today, Gov. Chris Sununu and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) joined AT&T* to celebrate a major boost in wireless communications for New Hampshire first responders New Infrastructure Will…
Portsmouth’s Police and Fire departments are connecting their first responders to FirstNet – a new communications platform just for public safety. With the tech advancement, the departments can equip officers…
By Al Gillespie, Fire Chief (Ret) What do you call it when someone tells you one thing but continues to do something that isn’t exactly inline with what they’ve said?…
Popular Industrial-Grade Flip Phone Provides Simple, Fast and Reliable Communications in Extreme Work Environments PRESS RELEASE SAN MATEO, CALIF. (Feb. 6, 2020) — Sonim Technologies today announced the availability of…
First responders using FirstNet didn’t have to compete with attendees for access to network resources. By SGV Staff Miami was the center of the pro football universe this past week…
AT&T said the upgrades will also benefit public safety and first responders on FirstNet — a public safety dedicated communications platform. PRESS RELEASE AT&T says it recently added new cells sites to…
Sonim Technologies is “not for sale” and intends to continue developing rugged public-safety broadband products, including high-powered user equipment (HPUE) that take advantage of 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum to…
AT&T expects to complete 80% of the contracted buildout of the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) “in the coming months,” an AT&T executive said yesterday. SOURCE: Urgent Communications DATE:…
These upgrades will also benefit public safety and first responders on FirstNet – public safety’s dedicated communications platform. TAMPA, FL — Making good on its commercial slogan, “Just OK is…
These upgrades will also benefit public safety and first responders on FirstNet – public safety’s dedicated communications platform. FirstNet is bringing public safety communications into the 21st century with new,…
195-foot tower would be used by emergency responders A 195-foot-tall communications tower is planned to be built on a ridge just west of the Sawtooth Hatchery in the Sawtooth Valley,…
AT&T is meeting all contracted deployment and adoption goals for the FirstNet public-safety broadband network, but the FirstNet Authority could improve the system’s chances of success by improving oversight and…
By David Cook, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority The last decade has brought about rapid advances in technology that have changed our daily lives. The first smartphones…
(This is a new series focusing on those that have made FirstNet a reality for Public Safety.) By W. Brent Lee, Public Safety Consultant When Ed Parkinson was named the…