Public Safety Advocate: A Look Back, News, More Next Week
The last week in February is very busy for me. I am working to complete a number of projects and I am still looking for…
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Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Interoperability, More on MegaRange™ Test Drives
Last week’s Advocate discussing the difference between FirstNet and commercial networks that concluded that FirstNet needs to continue to stand alone and not become part of a…
Public Safety Advocate: Broadband Interoperability? Z-Axis Location Services, CRDs, Spectrum
There is a lot going on during these early days of 2021. Broadband companies that did not bid on the FirstNet Request for Proposal are…
Public Safety Advocate: Closing Digital Divide Will Take Cooperation, FirstNet Stats and Announcements
For more than ten years, scores of people, organizations, and federal, state, and local agencies have been using band aids to “fix” the digital divide…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet MegaRange™ Means Mega Band-14 Coverage!
The goal of FirstNet was to provide nationwide broadband coverage for all first responders and to enable them to communicate among each other over a…
Public Safety Advocate: Broadband Spectrum, Extremists Use PTT During Capital Takeover Attempt
Our new President and Vice-President will be sworn in on January 20, hopefully without incident. Then the real work will begin as the public-safety community…
Public Safety Advocate: Looking Back and Ahead
This second 2021 Advocate is the last before the swearing in of the new administration. This week, we look back at the Nashville Bombing and why there…
Public Safety Advocate: T-Band Repeal after Nine Years!
First and foremost, I hope everyone stayed safe during the holidays and many of our first responders received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine….
Public Safety Advocate: 2020 in the Mirror, This Year’s Grades
There is no doubt 2020 will go down in history as one of the most difficult years the United States and the rest of the…
Public Safety Advocate: Vehicles as Communications Hubs, Z-Axis Correction
“Vehicular communications hubs” are a logical combination of communications resources into multi-function communications devices. This is a natural progression for public-safety and critical-communications systems that…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Timeline, Resource Pooling, T-Band Repeal, Z-Axis Location Services
FirstNet Timeline It wasn’t until February 2012 that Congress attached the creation of FirstNet to a bill that was signed into law on February 22,…
Public Safety Advocate: Confusion Between The FirstNet Authority and FirstNet (Built with AT&T)
Let’s start with The FirstNet Authority, which is the umbrella organization responsible for building and operating the nationwide public-safety broadband network known as FirstNet. The…
Public Safety Advocate: Time for Changes at the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) mission statement as presented on its web page under the “About the FCC” tab reads as follows: “The Federal Communications…
Public Safety Advocate: The FirstNet Authority Roadmap
Welcome to November 2020. The election is finally behind us, Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in the United States, and the number of wildfires, major…
Public Safety Advocate: Nokia/Moon, DOD/Rivada, ESChat/Samsung, 5G Router, CA DOJ
As you can tell from the rather long title, we will cover a number of subjects this week. First among them is that NASA has…