Verizon Just Can’t Help Themselves!
By Richard Mirgon, Public Safety Consultant Once again Verizon made the news and it’s not in a good way. It would appear Verizon (along with U.S. Cellular and T-Mobile) have…
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Reaching New Heights in Network Disaster Recovery
By Chris Sambar, Executive Vice President – AT&T Technology Operations When disaster strikes, keeping first responders and our other customers connected is our priority – and the specific mission of…
Winners Announced in Public Safety Haptics Challenge
By First Responder Network Authority This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division announced the winners of its Haptic Interfaces for Public Safety Challenge….
Expanded Telehealth Uses and Capabilities on the FirstNet Network
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…
Taking Public Safety Communications to the Next Level: FirstNet’s Innovation and Test Lab
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…
Driving innovation for disaster response to support America’s first responders and build resilient communities
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…
What the FirstNet roadmap says about its in-building strategy
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…
A New Approach to Public Safety Engagement Focused on Roadmap Priorities
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…
The Only Guarantee in Broadband Communications- FirstNet
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…
FirstNet Investing in Indian Country
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…
Time to Say Thanks!
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….
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…
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…
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…
Drilling Down Some Key Differences Between FirstNet and Verizon
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…