By Brigadier General Welton Chase, Jr. (US Army, Ret.), FirstNet Board Member When your job is to protect our communities, nothing is more important than being connected, protected and situationally…
Ultra-rugged LTE device maker Sonim Technologies today began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, a step that reflects the burgeoning open-standards environment that is developing with the establishment of public-safety…
Taser manufacturer misled Fontana PD about terms of its contract SOURCE: Muckrock.com DATE: May 9, 2019 The deal Fontana Police Department struck with Axon sounded simple enough: a trial of five inexpensive…
FCC’s Hurricane Michael Investigation Finds Backhaul, Roaming, And Coordination Problems Hindered Recovery Of Wireless Services PRESS RELEASE FCC Chairman Sets Course for Improvements & Calls on Carriers to Act WASHINGTON,…
AT&T revealed the latest figures for the FirstNet network, an AT&T-built national LTE network dedicated to public safety and first responders, showcasing a growing subscriber base. SOURCE: Business Insider May 8, 2019…
American Medical Response, Chicago Police Department, Elmore County Sheriff’s Office, FEMA, Seattle Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard and More Connect with FirstNet Performs 25%+ Faster Than Any Commercial Network1; Connectivity…
For the sixth consecutive year, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) has received an unmodified, or “clean,” audit opinion on its financial statements. Achievement of a clean audit opinion…
By Doug Harder, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Last month, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) had the opportunity to join public safety leaders at Texas…
First Responders on FirstNet Can Now Access the Visual Labs Smartphone Body Camera Application via the FirstNet App Catalog Following a rigorous review process, the Visual Labs smartphone body camera…
On April 15th the FirstNet Association announced its name has been changed to, the “Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA)”. PRESS RELEASE In an effort to avoid confusion between the Association…
FirstNet is serving more than 7,000 agencies and 570,000 subscribers—both increases of about 33% compared to three months ago—and the scheduled buildout of the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) was…
Public-safety entities in the state of Ohio hope to begin testing an interoperability solution that is designed to link FirstNet push-to-talk service with Harris P25 systems—and possibly a Tait P25…
Now that the Department of the Navy has opted into FirstNet, the nationwide dedicated public-safety communications platform that AT&T is building, work is starting on identifying eligible entities and how…
Ultra-rugged Feature Phone Provides Simple, Fast and Reliable Communications to Industrial, Enterprise, SMB and Public Safety Field Workers PRESS RELEASE SAN MATEO, Calif., April 19, 2019 – Sonim Technologies, a…
By David Faulkner, Senior Public Safety Advisor On March 27, the State of Arizona held a public safety broadband forum for first responders, public administrators, and IT support personnel to…