Public-Safety Broadband/FirstNet

Commentary

Global ecosystem for public-safety LTE begins to look realistic

The prospect of a global public-safety standard could have a massive impact on pricing for equipment and applications, if managed correctly.

News

FirstNet special committee takes initial steps, readies for Fitzgerald interview

Two subcommittees were formed, one to look into openness and transparency concerns, and another to examine conflict-of-interest allegations. FirstNet chairman Sam Ginn has vowed to implement committee recommendations, “whatever they are.”

News

UK seeks to replace TETRA with LTE as early as 2016

Official says cost, not performance is the issue, and calls TETRA “extremely expensive” compared with the per-minute costs of commercial wireless air time.

News

FirstNet approves expanded budget, new leadership structure

Authorized spending would increase to $20 miliion for FY2013, and paid staff will be hired; general manager Bill D’Agostino hopes to have his “leadership team” in place by September.

News

FirstNet completes first half of regional meetings

Meetings have been well attended, and have been “really informative in both directions,” said FirstNet board member Jeff Johnson.

News

NYC evaluating responses to broadband RFI

Dowd says exercise isn’t an indicator that city wants to do something separate from the nationwide public safety broadband network being built by FirstNet.

Article

The current state of 911: Good, bad and ugly

A pessimist might look at the current state of the 911 sector and say that the future is cloudy, while an optimist might say that the future is bright. Oddly, both may be correct.

Commentary

Global ecosystem for public-safety LTE begins to look realistic

News

FirstNet special committee takes initial steps, readies for Fitzgerald interview

News

UK seeks to replace TETRA with LTE as early as 2016

News

FirstNet approves expanded budget, new leadership structure

News

FirstNet completes first half of regional meetings

News

NYC evaluating responses to broadband RFI

Article

The current state of 911: Good, bad and ugly

Commentary

LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

Partnership and collaboration must be the foundation for emergency communications

FirstNet success means no hypothetical ‘shots’ need to be fired, Swenson says

Events

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

Twitter

Research claims driverless tech still too easy to trick dlvr.it/SWMDts

Coalition expresses urgent need to NG911 funding, wants more than proposed $10 billion dlvr.it/SWL5VW

APCO releases NG911 guide, quickly clarifies stance on NENA’s i3 standard dlvr.it/SWKcCY

10 malicious code packages slither into PyPI registry dlvr.it/SWKHxl

Verizon Frontline deploys 1,000 connectivity services for nationwide wildfire response efforts dlvr.it/SWKGpW

Newscan: Verizon counts 5.1 million first-responder subs; AT&T has 3.7 million dlvr.it/SW84Gv

Taiwan crisis another blow to the supply chain dlvr.it/SW7GSs

Motorola Solutions seeks contempt finding, global injunction against Hytera for not paying royalty dlvr.it/SW6Ldm