An Overview of FirstNet for Emergency Management
By Bruce Fitzgerald, Senior Public Safety Advisor, Emergency Management, First Responder Network Authority With increasing numbers of emergency management agencies and other public safety agencies…
An Overview of FirstNet for Emergency Management
Arizona Trucking Association Announces FirstNet as a Member Benefit
September 20, 2021 PRESS RELEASE Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona Trucking Association (ATA) is proud to announce FirstNet as a member benefit. All ATA carrier…
Klobuchar, Cortez Masto Introduce Legislation to Deploy Next Generation 9-1-1 Systems
September 16, 2021 PRESS RELESE WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), co-chair of the Senate Next Generation 9-1-1 Caucus, and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced…
Public Safety Advocate: Data Interoperability Revisited, 4.9-GHz Further Proposed Rulemaking, 6 GHz
After the article about the lack of data interoperability across the FirstNet (Built with AT&T) network appeared last week in the Advocate, I received comments indicating…
Firefighters Found Public Safety Network FirstNet
Two 9/11 first responders made it their mission to “provide public safety with dedicated connectivity.” Thomas Nicolette and Fred Scalera, both New Jersey firefighters during…
Revisiting FirstNet, the Public Safety Network Born from 9/11
As they responded to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, public safety professionals struggled to communicate with each other due to tech issues. Twenty years later,…
Honoring first responders on the 20th anniversary of 9/11
By Edward Parkinson, CEO First Responder Network Authority Soon after the planes hit the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, Brad Morrell deployed from Utah…
Public Safety Advocate: Drones, FirstNet Data Interoperability, Computer-Aided-Dispatch, Muni-Wi-Fi Again?
Drones—Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Concern is growing within the public-safety ranks about citizens flying drones over incidents that call for first responders. When incidents involve…
Former TVF&R chief helped revolutionize public safety technology
Jeff Johnson says 9/11 shed light on the flaws in communications systems used by the nation’s first responders. SOURCE: pamplinmedia.com DATE: September 3, 2021 “The…
Remembering 9/11 and how it changed public safety communications
By Harry Markley, Senior Law Enforcement Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Many of us know exactly where we were and what we were doing when…
9/11 Ride of Hope to Raise Awareness for First Responder Mental Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE North Falmouth, Mass. (8/31/21) – The Quell Foundation will host the 9/11 Ride of Hope as a peloton of 20 cyclists will…
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…
Communications from 9/11 to COVID-19
Lessons Learned That Have Shaped and Modernized Law Enforcement Communications SOURCE: policechiefmagazine.org DATE: September 2, 2021 The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, changed the…
“FirstNet Helps Save Lives”
How the Nation’s Most Important Wireless Network was Born “First responders from other states headed to New York and Washington, D.C. While their assistance was…
PSAC takes stock of FirstNet momentum during annual business meeting, announces new interim PSAC Chair
Kenzie Capece, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority On August 26, the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet Authority) Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) held…