PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Thu Feb 18 18:22:16 2016 Since last week’s commentary I have received verification that five other potential FirstNet RFP bidders have decided not to pursue this opportunity. Yet I have…
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PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Update
Thu Feb 11 19:29:21 2016 When I wrote my Public Safety Advocate last week documenting the issues with the FirstNet RFP, I did not realize that for the third time…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly New Summary
Thu Feb 4 19:37:30 2016 Public Safety Advocate Special FirstNet RFP Update Please Note: As with any of my articles, I approve the forwarding or posting of the article below…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Jan 22 10:03:15 2016 When FirstNet released the final RFP it allowed for questions to be asked until February 12, 2016. This is a great opportunity for prospective bidders…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Jan 15 12:16:49 2016 FirstNet released the final RFP and today, Friday the 15th from 1-3 pm EST, it is providing a kick-off webinar. The link for access is…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Jan 8 09:52:44 2016 While We Wait for FirstNet A while ago I wrote an article entitled, “While We Wait for FirstNet,” which was about how Public Safety entities…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Wed Dec 10 11:53:49 2015 End of 2015 This is the last Public Safety Advocate for 2015, and as required by the writers’ union, I must write about what transpired…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Thu Dec 17, 17:32:35 2015 Some of the State of New Hampshire’s elected officials and their staffs have been conned, hoodwinked, led down Primrose Lane, or whatever you want to…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Dec 11 2015 The most important news of the week is, of course, that on December 9, 2015, the FirstNet Board of Directors approved the final version of its RFP…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
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PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
For those who do not subscribe to Andy’s Public Safety Advocate Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary, we have decided to include his comments on items that have piqued his interest…
FirstNet and the Inspector General’s Report
Let’s hope that what comes out of this is more independence for FirstNet, leaving FirstNet to pick up the pace and get this network in the ground and operational.
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IACP Orlando
Is Partnering with FirstNet Possible?
As I see it, no meaningful private discussions means no partners. No partners means no more money for the network. No more money for the network means at some point FirstNet will not be able to continue to function, which means Public Safety will have lost the most important opportunity it will ever have to fix its interoperability problems.
FirstNet: Listen to Your Customers!
The majority of the Public Safety community still believes today that this new network is about data and video and not about voice, at least for the foreseeable future.