AT&T today announced that the carrier’s FirstNet leader Chris Sambar has been named as an executive vice president in the company and will be replaced by Jason Porter, who previously…
The new company, Atlán Redes, said the issue is “one between countries and not between carriers so it is a topic for the government agencies” Spotty cell phone service for…
Cellular phone signals know no borders. When a Mexican company began turning on its cellphone and data network along the U.S.-Mexico border, including in Juárez, in mid-August, it brought interference problems…
Winning the bid to build the nationwide FirstNet system on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum has been very beneficial to AT&T overall strategy, allowing the carrier to grow its wireless…
With a series of 10 regional code-a-thon events in-person coding events and an online contest, the Tech to Protect Challenge encourages widespread participation from a diverse community of innovators September is National Preparedness…
FirstNet users will have access to AT&T’s 5G services that are set to be available nationwide by the middle of next year, but the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum will…
Standing across the busy two-lane road from Tilghman Island’s fire station, Maryland officials cut a ribbon on Tuesday celebrating a new cell tower erected thanks to the FirstNet build-out. By…
Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) on Wednesday released results of drive test data and consumer research that for the second year ranked AT&T in the top spot for overall national…
Two cooperative research and development agreements, between the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the First Responder Network Authority and more than 75 industry partners, have made emergency service communication easier.
A new solution aims to speed incident response by dynamically vetting and authorizing first responders and their devices so they can access and share information when they are participating in incidents outside their home jurisdiction.
Emergency service communication can now cut through congested phone lines during a crisis thanks to two Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), and more than 75 industry partners.
A new government-funded communications network will give them priority over cell service lines.
Talbot County’s first responders are getting a boost in their wireless communications with the addition of a new, purpose-built cell site.
Kevin McGinnis, former FirstNet Authority board member, member of the Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) and program manager for the National Association of State EMS Officials, explains how the development of broadband services like FirstNet and the Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) payment model being piloted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could change how patients are treated, especially in rural areas.
AT&T has partnered with the government of Talbot County in Maryland to launch a FirstNet cell site on Tilghman Island. The company said Tuesday it has also constructed an additional AT&T cell site at Bozman, Md., to provide expanded network coverage for residents, visitors and first responders.