FirstNet apps: How first response gets done
FirstNet’s first job is to provide responders with a dedicated broadband network that gives them priority and preemption options during emergencies. But since its launch in 2017, the FirstNet App…
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Leon Valley Police Department Transforms First Responder Communications with FirstNet America’s Public Safety Platform
New Technologies Expand Our Capabilities to Better Serve Leon Valley PRESS RELEASE LEON VALLEY, Texas, Oct. 2, 2019— The City of Leon Valley Police Department is connecting our officers to FirstNet –…
Beyond Signal Strength: Measuring Performance of Public Safety Mobile Broadband Networks
A Protocol for Testing FirstNet and Commercial Carriers Using a testing protocol like the one described in this report should give public safety executives the type of information they need…
Glick celebrates first responders, new tech at ceremony
A truck providing improved communications for first responders in rural areas will be available to all Wyoming law enforcement agencies that opt into a new program. Wyoming Tribune Eagle Photo…
FirstNet gets new AT&T lead as Jason Porter replaces promoted Chris Sambar
AT&T today announced that the carrier’s FirstNet leader Chris Sambar has been named as an executive vice president in the company and will be replaced by Jason Porter, who previously…
Preparedness Month: Three Things to Know about FirstNet
September is National Preparedness Month, FEMA’s annual campaign to promote disaster and emergency planning. This year’s campaign theme is Prepared Not Scared. By Lesia Dickson, FirstNet Authority Director of Field Operations for…
San Diego Cell Service Possibly Affected by New Operator in Mexico
The new company, Atlán Redes, said the issue is “one between countries and not between carriers so it is a topic for the government agencies” Spotty cell phone service for…
Mexico cellular network is problem for U.S. phone service, El Paso emergency responders
Cellular phone signals know no borders. When a Mexican company began turning on its cellphone and data network along the U.S.-Mexico border, including in Juárez, in mid-August, it brought interference problems…
AT&T CEO highlights benefits of FirstNet, potential 5G use cases for critical infrastructure, enterprises
Winning the bid to build the nationwide FirstNet system on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum has been very beneficial to AT&T overall strategy, allowing the carrier to grow its wireless…
Board Advances Investments to Expand Coverage, Upgrade Core for 5G
Expanding deployable assets, upgrading the FirstNet core to be 5G Ready are focus of first investments aligned with public safety priorities in FirstNet Authority Roadmap PRESS RELEASE September 18, 2019…
Nationwide coding challenge appeals to innovators and public safety
With a series of 10 regional code-a-thon events in-person coding events and an online contest, the Tech to Protect Challenge encourages widespread participation from a diverse community of innovators September is National Preparedness…
Integrating FirstNet into 911 Operations
By Kristi Wilde, Senior Public Safety Advisor The FirstNet Authority continues to engage public safety from every discipline to better understand what they need from the FirstNet network. The FirstNet…
Spatial Network’s Fulcrum App Earns FirstNet Listed Designation
Achieving a FirstNet Listed designation means Fulcrum is a vetted and trusted solution for public safety, meeting FirstNet app requirements. Additionally, FirstNet subscribers will benefit from FirstNet’s added reliability while…
Harnessing FirstNet to enhance EMS response and improve patient care
By Brent Williams, Senior Advisor for EMS, First Responder Network Authority With the arrival of FirstNet, emergency physicians, paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) now have access to the nation’s first…
FirstNet users will have access to 5G, but Band 14 will remain on 4G LTE for years, AT&T’s FirstNet lead says
FirstNet users will have access to AT&T’s 5G services that are set to be available nationwide by the middle of next year, but the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum will…