Newscan: Is FirstNet stalled?

AT&T confirmed to Light Reading it selected Union Wireless to build FirstNet services for public-safety users across rural Wyoming. “Union will help build out additional LTE coverage across rural communities, adding Band 14 spectrum and AT&T commercial LTE spectrum bands to cellular sites,” an AT&T spokesperson wrote in response to questions on the topic. Union […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations City comptroller tells NYPD that surveillance-technology expenses can’t be kept secret ‘Perfect storm’: Defund the police, COVID-19 lead to biggest police budget cuts in decade What happens when a hurricane hits a COVID-19 hot spot? Lankford: Time to ‘reinvent the wheel’ on telework in federal workforce Minneapolis Charter […]

Public-safety entities are increasingly willing to adopt the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T—particularly as first responders recognize its value during the COVID-19 pandemic, FirstNet Authority board Chairman Ed Horowitz said this week. Horowitz said he believes FirstNet reached its “tipping point” last December, when AT&T reported more than 1 million FirstNet […]

The FCC wants to dole out $9 billion to finance the construction of 5G networks in rural areas of the US. Naturally, the devil is in the details. Should the agency require participants in the program to build speedy 5G networks, or are slower networks OK too? Should satellite providers be allowed to receive money from the […]