Spoiler Alert! What’s Coming Up at Vision 2024
By James Careless The 2024 Vision FirstNet Users Summit — aka Vision 2024 — takes place at the new Sahara Hotel/Conference Center in Las Vegas October 7-10, 2024. This is…
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You can’t argue with facts: Recent 4.9 GHz Webinar with SWICs
NEWS / PRESS RELEASE Las Vegas, Nevada – The Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA) and the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) recently hosted a webinar for all Statewide Interoperability…
The 5×5 Public Safety Summit: What It Was, Why It Matters
By James Careless In communications parlance, ‘5×5’ refers to radio signals that are perfectly clear and perfectly intelligible. In conference parlance, 5×5 is the short name of the Public Safety…
Chief Russell: FirstNet Needed to Protect 4.9 GHz for Public Safety
By James Careless Chief Russell believes 4.9 GHz should be protected for public safety with a centralized model under the FirstNet Authority while protecting the current incumbents. While this may…
Innovative ‘Neckmic’ Provides Clear Communications In Highly Noisy Environments
By James Careless Ensuring clear, intelligible communications on noisy incident scenes has long been a problem for first responders and military users. This is why headset/microphone [headset] manufacturers have come…
Improving In-Building Comms Issues Still A Priority
By James Careless The problem of poor in-building communications experienced by first responders is nothing new. It goes back to the days of land mobile radios. But even in today’s…
What You Need to Know About 4.9GHz
By Richard Mirgon Let’s start with one basic fact. The Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) has said from day one, over three years ago, that existing users of 4.9 GHz…
Getting the Most Out of FirstNet
By James Careless The fact that FirstNet provides first responders with dedicated, priority wireless broadband service across America is reason enough to use this system. That being said, there is…
How FirstNet Prepared for the Eclipse
By James Careless The April 8, 2024, eclipse came and went without any impact on the FirstNet nationwide public safety broadband network. This AT&T story shared on the AllThingsFirstNet.com website…
FirstNet’s $6.3 Billion 5G Network Upgrade: What It Means to Users
By James Careless On January 29, 2024, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) Board approved a full 5G upgrade to the FirstNet wireless network, which currently operates on 4G/LTE….
Central Pierce Fire & Rescue Testing Integrated LMR/VOIP PTT
By James Careless Push-to-Talk (PTT) is a vital function for first responder communications systems, be they on land mobile radio (LMR), commercial wireless (5G/4G/LTE), or Voice-Over-IP (VOIP via commercial wireless…
There is no choice: 4.9 GHz belongs to Public Safety
By Michael Barnbeck “Who should control the 4.9 GHz public safety spectrum?” The crux of the issue is whether this spectrum should be assigned to the FirstNet Authority, so all…