Certificates will be issued to qualifying alarm companies to support review of eligibility for FirstNet services. MCLEAN, Va. — The Monitoring Association has begun issuing TMA Certificates…
FirstNet’s first job is to provide responders with a dedicated broadband network that gives them priority and preemption options during emergencies. But since its launch…
New Technologies Expand Our Capabilities to Better Serve Leon Valley PRESS RELEASE LEON VALLEY, Texas, Oct. 2, 2019— The City of Leon Valley Police Department…
This is the month of public safety’s “10-codes.” These 10-codes were used effectively for many years and are now being replaced with verbal commands. With…
A Protocol for Testing FirstNet and Commercial Carriers Using a testing protocol like the one described in this report should give public safety executives the…
A truck providing improved communications for first responders in rural areas will be available to all Wyoming law enforcement agencies that opt into a new…
AT&T today announced that the carrier’s FirstNet leader Chris Sambar has been named as an executive vice president in the company and will be replaced…
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…
September is National Preparedness Month, FEMA’s annual campaign to promote disaster and emergency planning. This year’s campaign theme is Prepared Not Scared. By Lesia Dickson, FirstNet Authority…
The new company, Atlán Redes, said the issue is “one between countries and not between carriers so it is a topic for the government agencies”…
Cellular phone signals know no borders. When a Mexican company began turning on its cellphone and data network along the U.S.-Mexico border, including in Juárez, in…
Winning the bid to build the nationwide FirstNet system on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum has been very beneficial to AT&T overall strategy, allowing the…
Again, last week was the eighteenth anniversary of 9/11 and the start of a larger movement by the public-safety community to fix its communications systems….
Expanding deployable assets, upgrading the FirstNet core to be 5G Ready are focus of first investments aligned with public safety priorities in FirstNet Authority Roadmap…
With a series of 10 regional code-a-thon events in-person coding events and an online contest, the Tech to Protect Challenge encourages widespread participation from a diverse community of…