Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet’s March Madness
Thu Mar 2 17:00:21 2017 As I write the first draft of this week’s Public Safety Advocate, I realize it is March 1, the date the Department of Justice (DOJ)…
Thu Mar 2 17:00:21 2017 As I write the first draft of this week’s Public Safety Advocate, I realize it is March 1, the date the Department of Justice (DOJ)…
Thu Feb 23 16:45:35 2017 FirstNet celebrates its five-year anniversary this month. The law that created FirstNet was signed by the President of the United States on February 22, 2012….
Thu Feb 16 14:43:27 2017 The T-band is in the 470–512-MHz portion of the radio spectrum and was part of the allocation for UHF TV channels 14-20. However, there was…
Thu Feb 9 18:19:34 2017 Two weeks ago I wrote about the FirstNet network, then last week I wrote about the devices Public Safety will be using or could be…
Thu Feb 2 17:18:10 2017 Last week’s Public Safety Advocate post was one of the most widely read in the past six months and the input I have been receiving…
Thu Jan 26 17:56:27 2017 In June 2009, APCO International (APCO), The National Emergency Number Association (NENA), and The National Public-Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) publicly endorsed the wireless industry standard…
Thu Jan 12 18:53:23 2017 One comment made at the FirstNet board meeting caught my attention and that is that FirstNet, while becoming well known within Public Safety circles, has…
Thu Jan 19 17:06:47 2017 The latest news from the new administration’s transition team is that they plan to start chopping jobs within the federal government, reassigning functions to other…
Thu Jan 5 18:37:58 2017 Happy New Year to all! I hope 2017 is the best ever for each and every one of us! Last year was both a good…
Wed Dec 21 10:29:44 2016 ’Twas the night before Christmas and through most of the land Band 14 was quiet as a mouse. No band 14 was playing in most…
Fri Dec 16 10:41:32 2016 It appears that the FirstNet RFP Partner winner will not be made public until the court has acted. If there is a follow-on appeal it…
Fri Dec 9 15:00:32 2016 The smoke has cleared after the press reports of the Rivada Mercury court filing for being removed from the final phase of review of the…
Sun Dec 4 16:35:12 201 FirstNet RFP Award: Yet more Delays? Last week Urgent Communications, TR Daily, Communications Daily, and others ran stories citing reports that Rivada Mercury had been…
Thu Dec 1 17:35:38 2016 California’s RFI California has issued an RFI, a request for information as opposed to a request for proposal, to learn more about what would be…
Tue Nov 22 17:15:01 2016 First of all, I’d like to wish a very happy Thanksgiving week to all of you in the United States, and I hope all of…