Verizon Attempts Interoperability Coalition?
By Richard Mirgon, Public Safety Consultant This is a message for Verizon and Andres Irlando, a Verizon senior vice president and president of the carrier’s Public Sector and Verizon Connect…
3GPP
Tech Talk: December 7-14, 2020 3GPP Plenary Meetings Recap
By Dean Prochaska, Senior Director of Standards, First Responder Network Authority Highlights The fourth quarterly 3GPP Plenary e-meetings of 2020 recently concluded. At these December meetings, the 3GPP momentum continued…
Plans for FirstNet MCPTT unveiling ‘all on track,’ AT&T’s Sambar says
AT&T testing of 3GPP-compliant mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) technology is “going really well” and the carrier plans to offer the service later this year from multiple providers that will be announced separately,…
Public Safety Advocate: 3GPP, PSCR, T-Band, Multicast
3GPP, the standards body that created LTE, now seems to be focused on 5G with a few side trips back to LTE. Its Radio Access Network (RAN) Plenary sessions took…
Newport Beach, CA, 3GPP Plenary Meetings Recap
By Dean Prochaska, Senior Director of Standards The June quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) meetings in Newport Beach, CA addressed standards in several areas relevant to the evolution of…
Motorola Solutions provides insight into company’s progress on MCPTT, MCData, MCVideo
Motorola Solutions’ broadband push-to-talk offering—driven by Kodiak technology acquired in 2017—meets most of the 3GPP standard for mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT), but the lack of available proximity services (ProSe)…
AT&T says fully compliant MCPTT offering will be available next year
AT&T announced plans to make emergency calling and other features of the LTE mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard available next month and deliver a fully MCPTT-compliant offering during the second half of…
Tech Talk: La Jolla, CA, 3GPP Plenary Meetings Recap
By Dean Prochaska, Director of Standards, First Responder Network Authority This blog post is part of the “Tech Talk” series focused on the FirstNet Authority’s standards development activities to support…
Public Safety Advocate: An Evolving FirstNet System
In early January, the FirstNet Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) reached a milestone when the last U.S. territory opted in to FirstNet. This made it unanimous, all 50 states,…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet, LTE, and the Future
Thu Jan 26 17:56:27 2017 In June 2009, APCO International (APCO), The National Emergency Number Association (NENA), and The National Public-Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) publicly endorsed the wireless industry standard…
Public Safety Advocate Discovery Patterns News Summary
Fri Jul 29 13:53:55 2016 On July 28, 2016, I presented a webinar for IWCE/Urgent Communications entitled, “The Transition from LMR to LTE.” I have to admit if I had…
Public Safety Advocate
Fri Jun 10 15:08:20 2016 The PSCR Recap, followed by RFP Submission Facts, Fantasies, and Rumors The Public Safety Communications Research Lab (PSCR), which is part of the National Institute…
Why the Rush to Voice over LTE?
I would like to see everyone back off and wait until several things happen. First, let’s get the network in place for data and video services. Let’s see how much capacity is really needed by Public Safety, especially during incidents.
Building the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network
My advice for the technologists is to continue the good work they are doing but to tone down their technology assessments and predictions with the reality of the time involved and all of the processes and issues that must be addressed and solved, assuming they can be solved. Until then, the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network will remain about data and video, while today’s Land Mobile Radio networks are about mission-critical voice. Both networks will be needed for a very long time to come.