Public Safety Advocate: Wireless Coverage Extension
It is often desirable to extend wireless coverage into areas that are not well covered. Those with experience in the Land Mobile Radio (LMR) world are familiar with communications range…
Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC)
Public Safety Advocate: FirstNet; By the Numbers; SBC/FirstNet/FNA Inbuilding Communications
We recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the signing of the law that created FirstNet. I think this might be a good time to look back at FirstNet (Built with…
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: FCC’s Eighth Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for 4.9 GHz, NG911 Funding Cut, Expanding Inbuilding Coverage, What If?
4.9 GHz As many are aware, last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided public safety was not making sufficient use of the 50 MHz of spectrum in the 4.9-GHz…
Public Safety Advocate: IWCE 2021 Live in Las Vegas
Since we will be attending IWCE 2021 in Las Vegas all of next week, there will not be time to publish a September 30 issue. The Advocate will return the following week…
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: Alphabet Soup – NFPA, PSCR, SBC, L3 XL – The Weather, and T-Mobile
This week’s Advocate is made up of a series of shorter pieces covering items I think the public-safety community should to be aware of, starting with how upcoming wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, floods…
Public Safety Advocate: NG911, Mid-Band Spectrum, Harris DM, Cutting the Cord, New Leadership at FirstNet (Built with AT&T)
Welcome to March 2021. If last month was any indication, this will be a very busy year for public-safety professionals, especially those providing communications to the public-safety community. I hope…