FirstNet Band 14 coverage serves about half of U.S. rural population, FirstNet Authority reports

About half the rural population within the U.S. is within the FirstNet coverage footprint for operations using 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority, according to the FirstNet Authority’s annual report to Congress that was released last week.

SOURCE: Urgent Communications

DATE: May 4, 2020

Although the information in the report is about seven months old—reflecting the FirstNet Authority’s fiscal year 2019, which concluded at the end of September—the figures should be notable to public-safety representatives who have expressed concern about AT&T’s deployment of Band 14 in rural areas of the United States. READ MORE

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