Public Safety Advocate: An Honor, A Correction, DHS Shared Communications Report
Let me start this last Advocate of January by saying I am honored to be nominated as the IWCE Critical Communications Leader of the Year. The other nominees…
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Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Investments, HPUE, an Omission
I will start with the omission from last week’s Advocate where I detailed the most important items for which public safety needs assistance from various federal…
Public Safety Advocate: 9/11, Rural Broadband, Datacast
Above all else, this week was the anniversary of the terrible tragedies of 9/11. For public safety, 9/11 was also the beginning of a nationwide…
Upgrades in progress
Dallas-based RTeleTex LLC is working this week on upgrading AT&T cell tower equipment mounted at the top of Turner Apartments. Preston Duke, a tower hand…
Public Safety Advocate: FCC Recognizes Wireless, FirstNet Priority, Santa Barbara
After a week of travel, it’s nice to be back in Phoenix but Santa Barbara still feels like my home and I enjoyed interacting with…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Timing
The FirstNet contract as awarded to AT&T, now FirstNet (Built with AT&T), is a twenty-five-year agreement. The initial five years represent the time in which…
FirstNet Connects Rural Responders During Search and Rescue Exercises
By Lori Stone, FirstNet Authority Region III Lead Public safety agencies from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland recently conducted search and…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Gains, Some Throttling Broadband, More
The latest numbers are out for FirstNet (Built with AT&T) and as expected, they are really good. At the end of the first quarter of…
Public Safety Advocate: Critical LTE Communications Forum and More
This week’s Advocate is late since I attended and took part in the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) Critical LTE Communications Forum. There were about 200…
Public Safety Advocate: Passing the Baton
The past several weeks have seen some interesting changes in the FirstNet Board of Directors and the U.S. Senate. First and foremost, the passing of…
Public Safety Advocate: Hurricane Aftermath
Three major hurricanes in only a few weeks. First, Harvey hit Houston with a lot of wind and an unbelievable amount of rain. Then came…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet or SecondNet?
In The Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2012 the section known as Title VI created FirstNet and set out the rules for building a…
Public Safety Advocate: A T-Band Call to Action
Many people, even some of those involved in public safety, have no idea what the T-band is and why it is of vital importance…