Public Safety Advocate: P25 and MCPTT Feature Comparison
Over the years, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) has developed and published a large number of documents to provide Land Mobile Radio (LMR)…
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Public Safety Advocate: FCC’s New Approach, FirstNet’s Future
This week’s Advocate opens with a discussion of a recent article in Urgent Communications based on statements made by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. “FCC officials are taking…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet—A Three-Way Partnership
When FirstNet was signed into law, The FirstNet Authority was created as an independent authority reporting to the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) under…
Public Safety Advocate: Z-Axis Location, Rural Broadband Issues
The FCC has set an accuracy requirement for the “Z” or height axis used to determine location of a person inside a building at three…
Public Safety Advocate: LMR and FirstNet Attributes
I recently received an email from someone in the industry I know and have worked with on several occasions. He asked if I had ever…
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Lack of Broadband PTT Interoperability, T-Mobile, Ligado
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Bluetooth 5.0, Public-Safety Communications Report Card
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…
Public Safety Advocate: HPUE—What It Does, How It Works, What Is Available
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…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet, FCC, Congress, HPUE
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…
Public Safety Advocate: It Takes a Disaster to Prompt a Change
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Open Letter to Congress—Public Safety Needs Your Help Now
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…
Public Safety Advocate: LMR and FirstNet, NOT LMR Migrating to FirstNet Only Anytime Soon
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…
Public Safety Advocate: What’s Up with the FCC?
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Intra-Operable Networks, T-Mobile Ex Parte Filing
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…