Public Safety Advocate: Spectrum, Licensed and Unlicensed, Who Wins, Who Loses
Article after article has been written to make a case that broadband in the United States should be available to all regardless of where they…
Article after article has been written to make a case that broadband in the United States should be available to all regardless of where they…
We recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the signing of the law that created FirstNet. I think this might be a good time to look…
Those who have been reading the Advocate for any length of time know I rarely feature individuals in my articles but when I do, it…
Welcome to the last Advocate for the month of April 2022. This month’s FirstNet (Built with AT&T) statistics as of the 22nd show two significant milestones have been…
At IWCE 2022, FirstNet announced a new, significant upgrade to FirstNet (Built with AT&T) that prompted me to write about communications tools for first responders….
It is common knowledge that over the past five years the FirstNet Authority and FirstNet (Built with AT&T) have built the only nationwide public-safety broadband…
The IWCE made a triumphant return with IWCE 2022! Some may say it was smaller than earlier IWCEs or perhaps the show floor did not…
We will be attending the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) trade show next week so there won’t be time to publish an issue of the…
The Webster Dictionary defines “Unified” as “Brought together as one.” Under the public-safety Incident Command (IC) structure, “Unified” means “Unified Command (UC): In incidents involving multiple jurisdictions, a…
I hear that a good time was had by all who celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the creation of FirstNet. I, on the other hand,…
We will be in Washington, DC next week to participate in a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the signing of the bill that created FirstNet….
First, I want to thank everyone who has responded to our survey. It will be up for a few more weeks, so please take a…
Last week I wrote about two FirstNet anniversaries that are coming soon. The first is the tenth anniversary of the FirstNet Authority and the FirstNet…
Well, I missed an Advocate last week. When we returned from our mini-cation, Murphy was here to welcome us home. If you don’t know about Murphy, you…
In last week’s Advocate, I wrote about how far we have come in meeting our goal of interoperability and outlined some of the major items we still…