By Edward Parkinson, CEO, FirstNet Authority This week marks some major milestones in the history of public safety’s nationwide broadband network. It was three years ago that we, the First…
By Richard Mirgon Public Safety Consultant We have all seen the articles about the data surge resulting in people staying home during this COVID-19 outbreak. Between the adults working from…
By Jason Porter, senior vice president, FirstNet Program at AT&T The events of Sept. 11, 2001 changed the world as we knew it. Lives were lost, major economic and societal…
By Thomas Randall, Senior Public Safety Advisor, FirstNet Authority For the past five years, the Texas A&M University’s Internet 2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC) has brought together public safety officials and industry…
By Jennifer Harder, Senior Director, Product Team After working with the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program during graduate school, I knew I wanted to work with service animals in my career. I…
By Gary McCarraher, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Approximately 15 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts sits Canton – a small community of 21,000 people. Chief Charles Doody…
By Kyle Richardson, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Hamilton County is located in the southwest corner of Ohio and is home to approximately 800,000 residents. Spanning over…
Written by John Contestabile So, I have heard this expression before, but what does it really mean? Holy Grail: something that you want very much but that is very hard…
Incident management, rural communications among most cited use cases. Almost 30% of public safety professionals surveyed by the International Wireless Communications Expo reported they are currently using drones in their operations. The…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
By Kyle Richardson, First Responder Network Authority Senior Public Safety Advisor Canton, Ohio is home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, attracting visitors from around the country to celebrate the…