Public Safety Advocate: Redefining Push-To-Talk
The Best of Andy. First published in March of 2022. With Push-to-Talk interoperability in the spotlight, we thought it was time to revisit the topic as the next in “The…
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Public Safety Advocate: Redefining Push-To-Talk, Reader Survey
The Webster Dictionary defines “Unified” as “Brought together as one.” Under the public-safety Incident Command (IC) structure, “Unified” means “Unified Command (UC): In incidents involving multiple jurisdictions, a single jurisdiction with multiagency involvement,…
Public Safety Advocate: PTT, Data Interoperability Today, —Part 2
In last week’s Advocate, I wrote about how far we have come in meeting our goal of interoperability and outlined some of the major items we still need to address. This week…
Public Safety Advocate: Resolutions to Enhance Public-Safety Communications – Part One
I trust you and yours had a great holiday season! As we move on to 2022, hopes are that Covid will finally be under control and we will watch our…
Public Safety Advocate: September Ends with IWCE, October Begins with a Roar
Last week was the first live IWCE conference since 2019. Meanwhile, on the last day of September, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 4-0 in favor of moving forward with…
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 example, one reader suggested Los…
Public Safety Advocate: Nationwide Interoperability, FirstNet Authority 2022 Budget
Introduction The imminent release of Motorola’s 3GPP-compliant (sans ProSe) Push-To-Talk (PTT) will be the second 3GPP-compliant PTT application available on FirstNet (Built with AT&T). With seven other PTT applications already…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet Growth, Another MCPTT Option, FirstNet 10-Year Anniversary Soon, 4.9 GHz
This week we will look at the numbers as FirstNet (Built with AT&T) continues to add more agencies and users and we will discuss its plans to support another Push-To-Talk…
Public Safety Advocate: No Noise Task Force, FirstNet-Certified PTT, NG911
We will start this Advocate with an introduction to the “No Noise Task Force” (NNTF), which operates under the auspices of the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC). The NNTF will be investigating in-building…
Public Safety Advocate: ProSe Panned, Second-Generation PTT, QuickRoute
This week there are a number of items of interest for those involved in public-safety communications. A rugged handheld device company has given up on ProSe while a Push-To-Talk (PTT)…
Public Safety Advocate: NG911, IP-Based FirstNet/LMR, HPUE White Paper, FirstNet Want to-be Renames existing services
It has been a while since I heard people claiming FirstNet (Built with AT&T) will replace Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems. I had thought by now most of us, including…
Public Safety Advocate: Nokia/Moon, DOD/Rivada, ESChat/Samsung, 5G Router, CA DOJ
As you can tell from the rather long title, we will cover a number of subjects this week. First among them is that NASA has awarded a contract to Nokia…
Public Safety Advocate: LMR, FirstNet PTT Operational Concerns
I recently became aware of growing concerns related to interconnecting Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks with any LTE network including the FirstNet (LTE) network. Some LMR operators appear to be…
Public Safety Advocate: FCC Recognizes Wireless, FirstNet Priority, Santa Barbara
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 many of the folks I…
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet PTT Interoperability
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the need to find better, open-standard ways to bridge the gap between Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and FirstNet for Push-To-Talk (PTT). The Public…