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…
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Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet; By the Numbers; SBC/FirstNet/FNA Inbuilding Communications
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Thank You, Ed Parkinson; RapidSOS; Call for Public Safety Hall of Fame
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…
Public Safety Advocate: FCC Receiver NOI; Will Broadband Replace LMR? (Yet Again)
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…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet (Built with AT&T) Announces More Communications Tools
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….
Public Safety Advocate: 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…
Public Safety Advocate: IWCE, Who Will Be First to Implement Truly Unified PTT? More IWCE Next Week
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…
Public Safety Advocate: IWCE 2022
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Redefining Push-To-Talk, Reader Survey
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…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Ten-Year Anniversary—FCC Chair’s Speech, Awards, and Unified Push-To-Talk
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,…
Public Safety Advocate: Survey, Happy Anniversary FirstNet, Less Expensive FirstNet Devices
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….
Public Safety Advocate: Surveys, Over-Hyping Products and Services, Problem Solving
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…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Growth, Something Different
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…
Public Safety Advocate: Two FirstNet Anniversaries, Not Your Father’s IoT Device, Ride-Along
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…
Public Safety Advocate: PTT, Data Interoperability Today, —Part 2
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…