AT&T spends big on 5G, FirstNet ahead of Super Bowl
Dive Brief: AT&T says it has invested more than $85 million to improve wireless and cell coverage in Miami as the city prepares to host Super Bowl…
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AT&T Boosts Miami Area Mobile Coverage for Pro Football’s Big Game
AT&T Invests More than $85 Million to Improve Wireless Capacity and Coverage for a Better Customer Experience; FirstNet Provides Unparalleled Emergency Support for Public Safety…
Nellis Air Force Base Selects AT&T To Provide 5G and FirstNet Services
AT&T 5G Services Will Power the Air Force’s Elite Combat Training Programs and Home of the Thunderbirds PRESS RELEASE Under a new agreement with Nellis…
AT&T’s Porter outlines hardening, deployable efforts to keep FirstNet users connected
AT&T is dedicated to providing FirstNet users with broadband access in any response scenario, whether it is through the carrier’s expanding terrestrial-network footprint or its…
Brazos County becomes first law enforcement agency in Texas to implement FirstNet
The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office are the first law enforcement agency in Texas to officially adopt FirstNet. Source: kxxv.com January 9, 2020 FirstNet, or First…
City of Annapolis Comes Together to Provide Reliable Communications to Public Safety Agencies
The network enables seamless communications across these agencies and its surrounding jurisdictions. SOURCE: firstnet.gov DATE: January 9, 2020 The City of Annapolis, situated on the…
AT&T reigned last year with a speed lead over its big rivals in the U.S.
AT&T Inc. seized the speed lead in early 2019 – and didn’t let go. SOURCE: bizjournals.com DATE: January 9, 2020 After being in third place…
FirstNet-approved device list names 163 smartphones, tablets, laptops
The number of devices that can operate on FirstNet, AT&T’s wireless public-safety network, has grown nearly tenfold since the first batch of 17 devices was approved in…
City of Colorado Springs Expands Public Safety Communications Capabilities with FirstNet
The City of Colorado Springs has joined FirstNet® – a new communications platform built just for public safety. FirstNet provides the City’s first responders new capabilities…
Top U.S. telecommunications, spectrum adviser stepping down
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the agency, said in a statement: “Diane has led NTIA to multiple successes on 5G, supply chain security,…
What everyone is missing about the controversial JEDI project: Positive ripple effects
Consider, for example, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), the results have been breathtaking, leading to the development of an exclusive cellular spectrum for first…
In FCC proceeding, APTS makes case for aiding FirstNet
America’s Public Television Stations is turning to an FCC rulemaking in an attempt to aid its five-year quest to involve public TV stations in a…
AT&T Boosts 5G and Public Safety in Missouri and Kansas
These investments are directed to improve the critical services for public safety and first responders Source: Yahoo Finance DATE: December 12, 2019 AT&T Inc. recently…
Upcoming Band 14 PTT devices ‘phenomenal,’ FirstNet Authority board member says
Not-yet-available push-to-talk LTE devices that are being evaluated in the FirstNet Authority laboratory should please public-safety users and are “getting very, very close” to the…
FCC won’t punish Verizon and T-Mobile for exaggerating their coverage maps
And it’s scrapping an entire program because of them Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular overstated their 4G coverage in rural communities across the country, a…