Welcome to March 2021. If last month was any indication, this will be a very busy year for public-safety professionals, especially those providing communications to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
“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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…