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Kansas PSAPs working with AT&T to build ESInet, take steps toward NG911 during next year

Public-safety answering point (PSAPs) throughout Kansas are expected to leverage geospatial routing of 911 calls over AT&T’s Emergency Services IP network (ESInet) by the end of the year or early in 2018, according to the chairman of the state’s 911 coordinating council.

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T-Mobile leads bidding in FCC’s 600 MHz incentive auction

T-Mobile, Dish Network and Comcast were the leading winners in the incentive spectrum auction that generated $19.8 billion in gross bids for 70 MHz of licensed 600 MHz airwaves, FCC officials announced today.

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Former board member Paul Fitzgerald on FirstNet-AT&T deal: ‘I like what I see and hear’

Paul Fitzgerald—the longtime sheriff of Story County, Iowa, and an outspoken member of the original FirstNet board in 2012—expresses support for the 25-year public-safety broadband agreement between FirstNet and AT&T.

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FirstNet CEO, AT&T official provide further details about 25-year contract for first-responder network

ATT plans to provide “very aggressive” pricing for its FirstNet subscription packages, and the carrier has pledged $18 billion to ensure that the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) receives regular technological and coverage upgrades during the 25-year contract period, according to officials for AT&T and FirstNet.

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AT&T, FirstNet officials provide new perspectives on governors’ ‘opt-out’ decision process

AT&T and FirstNet officials provide new details about information that governors should consider when deciding whether their states and territories should accept the FirstNet deployment plan or choose to pursue the “opt-out” alternative.

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

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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FirstNet, NTIA officials provide insights to ‘opt-out’ process on eve of award announcement

States and territories will have critical financial-obligation information regarding payments to FirstNet for the use of spectrum and core network assets as governors decide whether their states should pursue the ‘opt-out’ alternative to the nationwide FirstNet deployment, officials for FirstNet and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said yesterday.

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FirstNet reschedules special board meeting for March 28, vote for AT&T procurement win still expected

FirstNet announces that its board will conduct a special meeting next Tuesday—a day earlier than previously announced—when a vote is expected to set the stage for AT&T to be awarded with a 25-year deal to deploy and maintain the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN).

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Maximizing the potential of the NPSBN and NG911

Both the next-generation 911 (NG911) and the nationwide public-safety broadband networks (NPSBN) promise to be game-changing public-safety communications networks. They will be even better, if they are integrated properly.

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Newscan: America’s 911 infrastructure is showing cracks, too

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Kansas PSAPs working with AT&T to build ESInet, take steps toward NG911 during next year

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T-Mobile leads bidding in FCC’s 600 MHz incentive auction

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Former board member Paul Fitzgerald on FirstNet-AT&T deal: ‘I like what I see and hear’

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FirstNet CEO, AT&T official provide further details about 25-year contract for first-responder network

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AT&T, FirstNet officials provide new perspectives on governors’ ‘opt-out’ decision process

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

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FirstNet, NTIA officials provide insights to ‘opt-out’ process on eve of award announcement

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FirstNet reschedules special board meeting for March 28, vote for AT&T procurement win still expected

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Maximizing the potential of the NPSBN and NG911

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Newscan: America’s 911 infrastructure is showing cracks, too

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September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

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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