PSSA FILES RESPONSE TO CERCI LETTER
Today the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) filed a response to the May 10, 2024 letter from the Coalition for Emergency Response and Critical Infrastructure (“CERCI”). The PSSA has repeatedly…
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PSBTA Offers Communications Support to VA Police to Improve Patient, Staff Safety
NEWS / PRESS RELEASE May 17, 2024 Washington, DC — The Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA) standsready to help the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) improve real-time communicationswith…
FirstNet Authority, NIST announce keynote speakers, agenda for 5×5 public safety innovation summit
Leading voices in public safety communications will keynote the 5×5: The Public Safety Innovation Summit this summer in Chicago. Summit hosts announced the speakers as part of an agenda that includes over…
Siyata Mobile’s SD7 Handset Added to AT&T FirstNet’s ‘Free Feature Phone for Life’ Promotion
NEWS / PRESS RELEASE Vancouver, BC – May 13, 2024 — Siyata Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq: SYTA, SYTAW) (“Siyata” or the “Company”), a global developer and vendor of Push-to-Talk over Cellular…
PSSA suggests a way for FCC to give FirstNet Authority access to 4.9 GHz, even with legal questions
Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) this week outlined a framework that would let the FCC provide access the FirstNet Authority to the 4.9 GHz band via a nationwide overlay license…
AT&T says FirstNet provides about 28,000 agencies with about 5.9 million connections
About 28,000 public-safety agencies subscribing to the FirstNet utilized approximately 5.9 million connections on nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) through the end of March, FirstNet contractor AT&T reported today during…
Eclipsing Expectations: AT&T’s Network Stayed Bright During Solar Eclipse
We monitored our network around the clock to help ensure spectators stayed ‘out of the dark’ during this year’s total solar eclipse. In preparation for the eclipse, this team, the…
FirstNet Economic Impact Study: Network Deployment Drives Job Creation, Generates Over $5 Billion in Wages and Salaries
Study estimates FirstNet development created an average of nearly 14,000 jobs per year over a 7-year period. NEWS / PRESS RELEASE RESTON, VA – The deployment of FirstNet, the nationwide…
Siyata Adds New Channel Partner with 3AM Innovations, a Software Provider for First Responders
SD7 PTT Handsets integrated with FLORIAN®, an incident command software application NEWS / PRESS RELEASE Vancouver, BC – April 3, 2024 — Siyata Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq: SYTA, SYTAW) (“Siyata” or…
FirstNet, built with AT&T, identifies steps to address mental health and wellness in public safety
FirstNet, Built with AT&T, and the FirstNet Health and Wellness Coalition (FNHWC) have identified the major barriers to mental health program adoption among first responder agencies and developed five key…
FirstNet Authority vows to ‘continue to hold AT&T accountable’ in aftermath of outage
FirstNet Authority officials provided some additional insight into the circumstances surrounding the Feb. 22 outage suffered by contractor AT&T—although no new information about the cause—and proclaimed that the carrier giant…
Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report to Congress features successful completion of 5-year network build, Band 14 FCC license renewal
By Thomas Shull, Director of Legislative Affairs, First Responder Network Authority This year’s Annual Report to Congress highlights the benchmark achievements and continued progress that the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority)…
FirstNet Authority Update on February 22 Network Outage
By Joe Wassel, Executive Director and CEO, First Responder Network Authority One week ago today, on February 22, 2024, our network partner, AT&T, experienced a broad outage that impacted public…
AT&T CEO on outage: “We let down many”
AT&T CEO John Stankey addressed the carrier’s massive Feb. 22 outage that impacted FirstNet and commercial service, stating in a letter to company employees that “we let down many of…
Emergency communications operate despite AT&T outage
By JONATHAN STINSON Assistant editor Despite many AT&T customers on post being unable to use their wireless devices, first responders –who rely on AT&T’s FirstNet for some communications – were…