Public Safety Advocate: Off-Network Communications
Welcome to June! May is in the books and now we are looking forward to what June might have in store for us. Public-safety agencies around the United States and…
Welcome to June! May is in the books and now we are looking forward to what June might have in store for us. Public-safety agencies around the United States and…
Recently, there has been a flurry of articles in the press, on Twitter, and on LinkedIn touting the advantages of Push-To-Talk over Broadband (PTT over LTE) and stressing that PTT…
Bluetooth, developed by Ericsson and named for a Danish Warlord, has become a part of almost every wireless device. Originally, Ericsson determined it could not successfully introduce Bluetooth on its…
How much and where will High-Power User Equipment (HPUE) devices provide additional coverage? This week’s Advocate about HPUE is divided into sections. The first discusses the impact of using high-power user devices…
FirstNet I have been following FirstNet (Built with AT&T) COVID-19 activities closely and from what I have seen, FirstNet has really stepped up. When we were coaxing FirstNet through federal…
It took a long time to establish FirstNet, will it take as long to close the Digital Divide? In our history, there have been many times when it was apparent…
Dear Members of the U.S. House and Senate: There are bills pending in both the House and Senate that need your attention now! We understand you are facing many pressing issues…
There has been a lot of activity over the last few weeks around both Land Mobile Radio Push-To-Talk (LMR PTT) and FirstNet/LTE PTT with the introduction of the first two…
I have been commenting about the FCC chairman seeming to feel many segments of our spectrum resources need to be opened up for access to yet more WiFi services. Perhaps…
Regular Public Safety Advocate followers are probably familiar with an expression I picked up years ago that remains true today: “Paper does not refuse ink.” It is also true that when the…
First, a sincere thank you to public-safety professionals for putting others’ lives ahead of your own, and thanks to the professionals in Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs), law enforcement, fire, and…
FirstNet was created to facilitate cross-agency public-safety communications, no matter where agencies are called to serve. The rationale behind FirstNet is to enable a team from California, for example, when…
A few hours before time to email this week’s Advocate I was informed that finally, after what seems forever, The FirstNet Authority has appointed Ed Parkinson to the position of full-time CEO….
Over the next few months, but not every week, I will be expanding on this week’s article about Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks and commercial broadband networks, with an emphasis…
I recently commented here about T-Mobile and others confusing both the public-safety community and the citizens of the United States with its lack of specifics about 5G data rates and…