Public Safety Advocate: A Look Back and A Look Forward
Thu Jan 5 18:37:58 2017 Happy New Year to all! I hope 2017 is the best ever for each and every one of us! Last year was both a good…
Thu Jan 5 18:37:58 2017 Happy New Year to all! I hope 2017 is the best ever for each and every one of us! Last year was both a good…
Wed Dec 21 10:29:44 2016 ’Twas the night before Christmas and through most of the land Band 14 was quiet as a mouse. No band 14 was playing in most…
Fri Dec 16 10:41:32 2016 It appears that the FirstNet RFP Partner winner will not be made public until the court has acted. If there is a follow-on appeal it…
Fri Dec 9 15:00:32 2016 The smoke has cleared after the press reports of the Rivada Mercury court filing for being removed from the final phase of review of the…
Sun Dec 4 16:35:12 201 FirstNet RFP Award: Yet more Delays? Last week Urgent Communications, TR Daily, Communications Daily, and others ran stories citing reports that Rivada Mercury had been…
Thu Dec 1 17:35:38 2016 California’s RFI California has issued an RFI, a request for information as opposed to a request for proposal, to learn more about what would be…
Tue Nov 22 17:15:01 2016 First of all, I’d like to wish a very happy Thanksgiving week to all of you in the United States, and I hope all of…
Mon Nov 14 15:05:25 2016 The State’s Opt-In or Opt-Out Decision Soon after FirstNet announces the RFP winner (its Partner), the clock starts ticking down to the first six-month milestone….
Thu Nov 10 12:06:26 2016 The elections are over. I won’t go into what the changing of the guard might or might not mean for the Public Safety community or…
Fri Nov 4 14:04:29 2016 The November 1 goal set by FirstNet to announce the RFP winner has come and gone. However, the CEO stated before and since the first…
Thu Oct 27 19:32:47 2016 This past week the National Governor’s Association (NGA) sent the states a draft of a document addressed to FirstNet that will tell FirstNet and the…
Mon Oct 24 14:21:27 2016 No, it’s not Friday, it’s Monday and you are receiving the weekly Public Safety Advocate a few days late. I was traveling to Auburn University…
Fri Oct 14 11:12:00 2016 The news media appears to have started the countdown to November 1, 2016, when FirstNet plans to announce the Partnership winner. I am not so…
Fri Oct 7 10:59:01 2016 Preparing to Opt In Over the past month I have written about the New Hampshire RFP and bid award and the Alabama and Arizona RFPs…
Thu Sep 29 16:09:09 2016 The State of Arizona RFP On Wednesday, September 28, the State of Arizona issued its own RFP in case the state decides to opt out…