Public Safety Advocate: LMR, FirstNet PTT Operational Concerns
I recently became aware of growing concerns related to interconnecting Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks with any LTE network including the FirstNet (LTE) network. Some…
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Public Safety Advocate: Network Interoperability?
This is the month of public safety’s “10-codes.” These 10-codes were used effectively for many years and are now being replaced with verbal commands. With…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Investments, HPUE, an Omission
I will start with the omission from last week’s Advocate where I detailed the most important items for which public safety needs assistance from various federal…
Public Safety Advocate: Public Safety Needs Federal Action Now!
Again, last week was the eighteenth anniversary of 9/11 and the start of a larger movement by the public-safety community to fix its communications systems….
Public Safety Advocate: 9/11, Rural Broadband, Datacast
Above all else, this week was the anniversary of the terrible tragedies of 9/11. For public safety, 9/11 was also the beginning of a nationwide…
Public Safety Advocate: Interference at the Southern Border
In opening, I would like to welcome our new subscribers. The topics we cover relate to wireless communications, especially as used by public safety, and…
Public Safety Advocate: NG911, More Public-Safety Hall of Fame Nominees
Last week I attended the State of Arizona PSAP/Integration Planning Meeting held in Phoenix. It was well attended and the content was right on target….
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Five-Year “Roadmap,” Devices at APCO
As promised, the FirstNet Authority has published its five-year reinvestment roadmap as approved by the board of directors some time ago. Official publication had been…
Public Safety Advocate: APCO Conference
As advertised last week, this week’s Advocate is late because I spent much of the week at the APCO Conference in Baltimore. Having been raised on the…
Public Safety Advocate: FCC Recognizes Wireless, FirstNet Priority, Santa Barbara
After a week of travel, it’s nice to be back in Phoenix but Santa Barbara still feels like my home and I enjoyed interacting with…
Public Safety Advocate: Public Safety Spectrum, Interoperability, and the FCC
This week’s column is late due to my travel commitments this week and there will be no Advocate next week since I will be in Santa Barbara,…
Public Safety Advocate: 3GPP, PSCR, T-Band, Multicast
3GPP, the standards body that created LTE, now seems to be focused on 5G with a few side trips back to LTE. Its Radio Access…
Public Safety Advocate: PSCR, More on PTT, Future Technologies
This week the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) organization under The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is holding its annual meeting to discuss…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet PTT Interoperability
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the need to find better, open-standard ways to bridge the gap between Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and FirstNet…
Public Safety Advocate: 5G Interloper, Ready for Public Safety?, Uplifting, More
By necessity, this week’s Advocate will begin at the beginning. During the FirstNet RFP process there were three bidders. As we all know, AT&T won the bid…