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FirstNet Authority board approves plans to enhance FirstNet core for 5G, expand deployable coverage capabilities

FirstNet Authority board members yesterday voted unanimously to have the organization’s staff begin procurement processes to reinvest funding into making the FirstNet LTE core ready for 5G services and to expand the FirstNet deployable-network program. Both area identified for reinvestment were expected. FirstNet Authority Chairman Ed Horowitz previously identified deployable enhancements and preparing to make […]

Motorola Solutions announces plans to deploy MOTOTRBO Nitro commercially in 3.5 GHz CBRS band

Motorola Solutions yesterday announced that the company will participate in the initial commercial deployment phase of 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) technology with its MOTOTRBO Nitro system that provides private LTE voice and data services. Jerry Gard, Motorola Solutions’ director of engineering for the professional commercial engineering group, said the FCC is expected […]

Dick Mirgon talks about NG911 funding legislation, new website focused on Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs)

  Dick Mirgon, a public-safety-communications consultant and former APCO president, talks about the need for public-safety unity to transform next-generation 911 (NG911) legislation into a law with billions of dollars in capital funding to upgrade 911 centers–or Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs)–nationwide. Mirgon also discusses his “All Things ECC” website that launched last month.

EMS: Kevin McGinnis describes broadband effect on rural-patient treatment, impact of new ET3 model

  Kevin McGinnis, former FirstNet Authority board member, member of the Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) and program manager for the National Association of State EMS Officials, explains how the development of broadband services like FirstNet and the Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) payment model being piloted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]
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