Captain Justin Schrek considers himself a bit of a tech junkie and prides himself on becoming the first early adopter of FirstNet in Pennsylvania. He’s an emergency dispatch services employee by day, but he’s also the captain with Beaver Springs Fire Company.
Public-safety LTE cell sites built by the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) are transferred to AT&T, which is FirstNet’s contractor to build and maintain the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). SOURCE:…
The body cameras are Kyocera smartphones that are used with the Visual Labs program that allows recordings to be uploaded through an app to the cloud immediately or once deputies…
The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office has implemented technology upgrades with FirstNet – a groundbreaking new communications platform, Sheriff Tim Parker announced this week. SOURCE: www.hillsdale.net DATE: June 23, 2018 FirstNet…
“It’s given us some incredible communication,” said Brazos Sheriff Chris Kirk, “that we’ve been able to put to good use. It makes us much more efficient.” SOURCE: Washington Post DATE:…
The Mayor of Orem, Utah, a city on the shores of Utah Lake and straddling a mountain range, says it’s in his town’s tradition to reach ahead and that’s why…
Primary public-safety agencies with little or no budget to pay for their personnel to have broadband services can utilize a FirstNet subscriber-paid—or bring your own device (BYOD)—offering recently made available nationwide at…
One of the largest Native American tribes in America has become the first tribal community in the U.S. to implement FirstNet this week. By ATFN Staff Writer, The Oglala…
The FirstNet Association (FNA) has announced their first event scheduled for June 29, 2018 in Minneapolis Minnesota. The event will be held at the Marriott Minneapolis West, 9960 Wayzata Blvd,…
The drone was built by AT&T in public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), which has contracted with AT&T to provide a nationwide public safety network for first…
AT&T plans to deploy public-safety LTE service on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum more quickly than expected, with about one-third of the projected buildout to be completed by next April,…
Starting Friday, First Responders will have another item on the menu of FirstNet-ready devices: the latest phone from South Korean electronics giant, LG. LG’s V35 ThinQ is the company’s newest…
Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel soon may leverage information from myriad medical devices and reliable broadband connectivity from FirstNet to provide better initial treatment to patients, as well as unprecedented…
AT&T plans to leverage its investment in FirstNet to expand its rural coverage, harden its network and prepare all of the carrier’s cell sites to support 5G services via software…
AT&T confirmed it is working with both the city of San Diego and the commonwealth of Virginia to support major tests of drone technology. Importantly, the carrier said its LTE…