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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…