As you saw, last week we published the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance’s (PSSA) comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Eighth Notice of Proposed Rulemaking…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance’s (PSSA) stay request for the previous FCC’s plan to take back the 50…
This week’s Advocate is a throwback to 2017 when I wrote about the difference between network capacity requirements of commercial broadband networks and capacity requirements of public-safety…
Rural Broadband As most of you know by now, the infrastructure bill was finally passed by the House last week. It had already been passed…
4.9 GHz As many are aware, last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided public safety was not making sufficient use of the 50 MHz…
FirstNet (Built with AT&T) just closed out its best quarter for new users. Numbers at the end of September 2021 show 18,500 agencies and 2.8…
The US Department of the Interior recently conducted a series of webinars to highlight advances within the various Tribal communities. I was most interested in…
This week I decided to once again discuss the urgent need for nationwide Push-To-Talk (PTT) interoperability between FirstNet, broadband, and Land Mobile Radio (LMR). Well,…
Last week was the first live IWCE conference since 2019. Meanwhile, on the last day of September, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 4-0 in…
Since we will be attending IWCE 2021 in Las Vegas all of next week, there will not be time to publish a September 30 issue….
After the article about the lack of data interoperability across the FirstNet (Built with AT&T) network appeared last week in the Advocate, I received comments indicating…
Drones—Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Concern is growing within the public-safety ranks about citizens flying drones over incidents that call for first responders. When incidents involve…
Last week, several readers pointed out that cloud-based interoperability might not always be best for network-to-network and network-to-Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Push-To-Talk (PTT) interoperability. For…
Introduction The imminent release of Motorola’s 3GPP-compliant (sans ProSe) Push-To-Talk (PTT) will be the second 3GPP-compliant PTT application available on FirstNet (Built with AT&T). With…
APCO 2021 The APCO 2021 conference is taking place in San Antonio this week. Many attendees come from the public-safety community or are involved in…