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FirstNet Authority CEO reflects on first 100 days, shares vision for future

SAN DIEGO—Public safety is leveraging ever-increasing amounts of data when making emergency-response decisions, but such information is useful only if it can be shared via a dependable network—something the FirstNet Authority plans to provide, according to CEO Joe Wassel. Kicking off 5×5: The Public Safety Innovation Summit, Wassel reiterated the key finding of the FirstNet […]

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

FirstNet Authority officials yesterday released the 2023 update to the organization’s Roadmap, which highlighted technological innovations associated with the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) but repeatedly referenced first responders’ need for reliable communications that “simply work” in even difficult environments. Informed by public-safety input collected via multiple outreach avenues, the FirstNet Authority Roadmap (access the […]

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

Every time I read about a public safety agency being short staffed, with a burnt-out workforce, draining their overtime budget, I feel their pain. From New York to New Mexico and in communities all across the nation, police and fire departments routinely are forced to mandate longer shifts, which takes an emotional toll and raises […]

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AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology

AST SpaceMobile today announced that its satellite-direct-to-phone technology enabled unmodified smartphones to achieve download speeds greater than 10 Mbps during tests with the company’s BlueWalker 3 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) test satellite. Conducted in Hawaii, tests demonstrated initial download speeds transmitted from the BlueWalker 3 satellites reached 10.3 Mbps on “everyday, off-the-shelf smartphones,” according to an AST […]

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Healthcare, security among sectors that promise to benefit most from 5G, panelists say

5G connectivity provides a promise of unique use cases that 4G cannot support, but many are just being realized or continue to await technological developments—notably, network slicing—to be real factors in the marketplace, according to panelists at the Big 5G Event conducted last month in Austin. Jodi Baxter, vice president of 5G and IoT connectivity […]

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RapidDeploy announces plans for RapidONE cloud-based 911 call-handling solution

RapidDeploy today announced its plans for RapidONE, a cloud-based call-handling solution that is designed allow 911 call-takers to in locations outside a public-safety answering point (PSAP) while integrating all information related to an emergency call on a single screen. RapidDeploy CEO Steve Raucher said RapidONE will be embedded in the company’s Radius platform, allowing that […]

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Carbyne announces resell relationship with AT&T for cloud-based 911 offerings

Cloud-based 911 vendor Carbyne today announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with AT&T that will allow the carrier giant to resell Carbyne’s APEX and Universe emergency-call management and mapping solutions. Carbyne CEO Amir Elichai said that his company’s cloud-based 911 technology currently is deployed in “a bit less than 100” public-safety answering […]

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Renee Gordon named as FirstNet Authority board vice chair

The FirstNet Authority today announced that 911 veteran Renee Gordon is the new vice chair for the FirstNet Authority board, effective immediately. Gordon, who was joined the FirstNet Authority board last November, is the director of the emergency communications center in Alexandria, Va., and previously served as the 911 director in Baltimore, Md. “I am […]

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Nextivity supports satellite-direct-to-phone operations on FirstNet spectrum, looks to upgrade HPUE next year

Nextivity has told the FCC that it supports the notion of using high-power-user-equipment (HPUE) in conjunction with supplemental coverage from space (SCS) on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to the FirstNet Authority, and CEO Michiel Lotter said the company hopes to unveil “next-generation” HPUE in 2024. Nextivity submitted its comments to the FCC as […]

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FCC votes to launch NG911 proceeding to align wireline, wireless 911 requirements

FCC commissioners today voted unanimously to support a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would require all telecom service providers to deliver 911 calls in an IP format and would make those providers responsible for absorbing costs associated with doing so if no state or local funding alternative exists. Most of the requirements in the […]

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FirstNet Authority CEO reflects on first 100 days, shares vision for future

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

Commentary

Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

News

AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology

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Healthcare, security among sectors that promise to benefit most from 5G, panelists say

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RapidDeploy announces plans for RapidONE cloud-based 911 call-handling solution

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Carbyne announces resell relationship with AT&T for cloud-based 911 offerings

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Renee Gordon named as FirstNet Authority board vice chair

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Nextivity supports satellite-direct-to-phone operations on FirstNet spectrum, looks to upgrade HPUE next year

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FCC votes to launch NG911 proceeding to align wireline, wireless 911 requirements

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Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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