Public Safety Advocate: PSSA 4.9 GHz Filing with FCC, How to File
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance’s (PSSA) stay request for the previous FCC’s plan to take back the 50…
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Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Tribal Successes, Interoperable PTT and Data, AT&T and FirstNet Authority Move Forward
The US Department of the Interior recently conducted a series of webinars to highlight advances within the various Tribal communities. I was most interested in…
Public Safety Advocate: Good News for Push-To-Talk Interoperability?, Bad News for 6-GHz Microwave
Last week, several readers pointed out that cloud-based interoperability might not always be best for network-to-network and network-to-Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Push-To-Talk (PTT) interoperability. For…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Authority Off-Network Communications Solutions RFI, L3Harris, HPUE
APCO 2021 The APCO 2021 conference is taking place in San Antonio this week. Many attendees come from the public-safety community or are involved in…
T-Mobile discloses data breach after SIM swapping attacks
The editorial staff at All Things FirstNet has posted this article to inform public safety of what can happen within networks and why it is…
Augment Your ARES® Mission with FirstNet®
By Randy Richmond, W7HMT In March 2018, the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network known as First Responder NetworkAuthority, in contract with AT&T, was launched as…
DNR moves to smartphone-based body cameras
More than a decade ago, the game wardens in Georgia’s woodlands and waterways started wearing body cameras. “We felt like it was important that we get into…
Corrata Earns FirstNet Listed Designation
FirstNet Subscribers Can Now Access Corrata via the FirstNet App Catalog PHILADELPHIA, July 8, 2020 — Following a rigorous review process, Corrata is now FirstNet® Listed and…
Priority Dispatch and PulsePoint Partner to Help 911 Dispatchers Guide Callers to Closest Lifesaving AED
June 23 Webinar to Highlight Best Practices in Dispatching Citizen Response to Sudden Cardiac Arrest June 9, 2020 PRESS RELEASE SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Emergency medical…
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…
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…