by PSBTA Team | Jun 18, 2025 | News, Press Releases LAS VEGAS – On behalf of the Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA) and the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA), we would like to congratulate…
Last week APCO took part in international 5G standards meetings held by 3GPP in Prague, Czech Republic to develop technical specifications for the 4.9 GHz spectrum band, an important step…
On June 13, dedicated FirstNet assets – including a FirstNet Satellite Cell on Light Truck (SatCOLT) and a FirstNet Compact Rapid Deployable (CRD)– were deployed to support federal, state, and local public safety near the Pentagon and Lincoln Memorial for the U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday Parade and Celebration, which is being held from 6/13 – 6/14 in Washington, D.C.
New FirstNet Authority CEO and Executive Director Michael Cannon recognized the FirstNet system’s success to date but emphasized that “we are far from done” in his first public speech since…
NEWS / PRESS RELEASE June 4, 2025 Bellevue, Wash. — The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) today awarded Bill Schrier the Chief Harlin R. McEwen Public Safety Broadband Communications Award (Harlin McEwen Award) for his…
NEWS / PRESS RELEASE June 4, 2025 Bellevue, Wash. – Today, six distinguished leaders in public safety received the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet Authority) prestigious Patriot Award for their innovative use of broadband…
The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians is connecting its police, fire, education, public works and other departments to FirstNet, built with AT&T – the only network built with and…
PRESS RELEASE May 01, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that Mike Cannon has been named the Executive Director and CEO…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 22, 2025 LAS VEGAS— Many sources have reported that Joe Wassel, the CEO of FirstNet, is retiring. “On behalf of the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance, (PSSA) we…
With a commitment unlike any other carrier, AT&T delivered these sites across 46 states and D.C., 9 months ahead of schedule Key Takeaways: AT&T, in partnership with the First Responder…
AST SpaceMobile and AT&T are working to bring direct-to-cellular connectivity to first responders on FirstNet via BlueBird satellites Key Takeaways: Working alongside AT&T, AST SpaceMobile has been granted permission to…
Innovative solutions enhance in-building connectivity and give public safety unprecedented visibility into their network Key Takeaways: AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) deliver robust, multi-layered coverage – now for…
As a coalition of bipartisan membership organizations representing state legislatures, state chief information officers, mayors, cities, and counties, we write to express our support for the reauthorization of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). We urge Congress to permanently reauthorize FirstNet before its authorization sunsets in February 2027.
Read the letters of support and use your voice today! Sign the petition to support the reauthorization of the FirstNet Authority March 17, 2025 Recently, several organizations sent a letter to Representative…
AT&T and AST SpaceMobile have successfully completed another video call by satellite to an everyday smartphone over AT&T spectrum. AT&T, in coordination with the FirstNet Authority, has already successfully tested…