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Officials promise preemption for public-safety subscribers across FirstNet and AT&T networks

  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 31st March 2017
Public-safety subscribers in “opt in” states that accept the FirstNet deployment plan could have preemptive priority on FirstNet’s 700 MHz Band 14 network and throughout AT&T’s vast commercial networks by the end of the year, FirstNet and AT&T officials said yesterday.

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  • Officials promise preemption for public-safety subscribers across FirstNet and AT&T networks
  • Officials promise preemption for public-safety subscribers across FirstNet and AT&T networks

Officials promise preemption for public-safety subscribers across FirstNet and AT&T networks

LAS VEGAS—Public-safety subscribers in “opt in” states that accept the FirstNet deployment plan will have preemptive priority on FirstNet’s 700 MHz Band 14 network and throughout AT&T’s vast commercial networks, possibly by the end of the year, FirstNet and AT&T officials said yesterday.

AT&T yesterday was awarded the FirstNet contract to build and operate the Band 14 nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN), the deployment of which is scheduled to be completed in phases during the next five years. Until the Band 14 network is constructed, public-safety agencies in “opt in” states will have preemptive access to all of AT&T commercial network that operates on 150 MHz of spectrum in various bands, according to FirstNet and AT&T officials.

AT&T currently offers public-safety agencies priority service on its commercial network, and preemptive capabilities are expected to be implemented at the end of the year—about the time when governors’ in 56 states and territories will decide whether their states will accept the FirstNet plan or pursue the “opt-out” alternative.

 “AT&T’s offer, we believe, is significantly better than any bidder, because we can offer our entire nationwide network—all commercial bands currently in the network today—will have preemption for first responders,” Chris Sambar, AT&T’s senior vice president for FirstNet, said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “So, when preemption turns up in our network, you’ll get it on all AT&T bands, not just Band 14. When Band 14 turns up, you’ll also have it there.

“I’ve been waiting nine months to tell people that. I’ve been so excited about it. We worry about states opting out, but once they hear that—amongst a number of other things we’re going to tell them—I think they’re going to be really excited.”

When AT&T builds the Band 14 public-safety LTE network in an area, traffic from FirstNet public-safety subscribers primarily will be transported across the Band 14 network with preemptive priority, FirstNet CTO Jeff Bratcher said yesterday during a session at IWCE 2017. If a Band 14 cell sector is saturated by priority public-safety users or is otherwise unavailable, the public-safety traffic would be transported with preemptive priority on AT&T’s commercial networks operating on different spectrum bands, he said.

FirstNet President TJ Kennedy described public-safety’s preemptive access to AT&T’s commercial networks, in addition to the Band 14 network, as “one of the great pieces of this solution.” AT&T also is bringing many other assets that promise to be beneficial to first responders, he said.

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Officials promise preemption for public-safety subscribers across FirstNet and AT&T networks
Tags: Funding Long Term Evolution (LTE) News NTIA/FirstNet Public Safety Public-Safety Broadband/FirstNet State & Local Government System Design News

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  1. Avatar Anonymous123456789 3rd April 2017 @ 10:08 pm
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    First off, hope AT&T can pull
    First off, hope AT&T can pull this off better than their existing network, as that has always been terrible… dropped calls etc, no data service through majority of a state, What happens to a citizens 911 call if the network is ‘preempted’, say saturated to the point of no usable service otherwise, by public safety operations.

  2. Avatar rsterry 7th April 2017 @ 10:32 am
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    I am all for the FirstNet
    I am all for the FirstNet network, but I do not believe AT&T should give priority on their existing network right away. This is a public network that subscribers pay for and expect to have quality service every day, without having to be pre-empted. Build out the 20Mhz they were given and then provide the priority service to public safety.

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