By Chief Jonathan Olson, Wake County (NC) EMS Deputy Director/Chief of Support Services, First Responder Network Authority Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) Executive Committee member The First Responder Network Authority’s…
By Sarah Calams The Boulder, Colorado, lab tests FirstNet-compatible devices and applications before their deployment in the field. Imagine a firefighter is battling a massive wildfire and she has to…
By John Fleming, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development; Dr. Walter G. Copan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director; and Acting CEO Edward…
By Kelly Hill on OCTOBER 28, 2019 The First Responders Authority will be receiving about $18 billion in payments from AT&T over the 25-year-term of the FirstNet contract. An estimated $16 billion of…
By David Buchanan, Executive Director of Public Safety Advocacy, FirstNet Authority Recently, law enforcement and fire chiefs from around the country joined the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) in…
By Tracy G. Trott, Colonel (Ret) I have to admit that when I was first exposed to D Block, or what would become the FirstNet network, as the Colonel of…
By Margaret Gutierrez, National Tribal Government Liaison (Regions I-VIII) As of August 2019, more than 750,000 device connections are being used by nearly 9,000 public safety agencies. As the number…
As many of you have seen, AT&T Senior Vice President Chris Sambar, who has been leading the “FirstNet Built with AT&T” effort, is moving to a new job within AT&T….
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…
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…
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…
By Richard Mirgon I haven’t commented much in the past few months on Verizon’s efforts to maintain their presence in the public safety market and to compete with FirstNet. Much…
At least one law enforcement agency is using the devices as body cameras, and more could follow By Rich Duprey Calls for greater police accountability and for protecting officers from…
By Kalyn Sims Municipalities are investing in technology to help them better protect their residents, infrastructure and reputations. There’s been tremendous growth in the number of drones, audio-recording devices and…
Increased bandwidth, low latencies enable advanced tech and better agency coordination with public safety communications in 5G, according to interviews with Telit. By Randall D. Larson As cellular technology advances…