Pryme Radio: President Dave George discusses accessory-market trends

FirstNet subscribers should have a choice of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) services this winter, when a new offering from Motorola Solutions is expected to be available following a collaborative development effort with AT&T, the contractor building the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). Scott Agnew, AT&T’s assistant vice president for FirstNet products, said that Motorola Solutions was […]

FirstNet continued its steady subscriber growth during the first half of the year, supporting more than 17,000 public-safety agencies with more than 2.5 million connections, according to an executive from AT&T, the contractor building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). AT&T Communications CEO Jeff McElfresh provided the updated FirstNet-adoption metrics today, which represent […]

As the host of the “Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 101 National Roadshow,” I have conducted seminars for planners, city administrators and municipal employees in many metro areas around the country. The one thing that everyone who attends these seminars wants to know is: while we wait for self-driving cars, what should municipalities, counties or MPOs […]

  John Foley, managing director for the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC), explains how SBC worked with the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) to establish the In-Building Public Safety Communications certification program. Announced today, the new initiative is designed to provide an objective assessment of personnel installing and maintaining in-building systems to support […]