FirstNet Everywhere, Partnerships (Again)
I just returned from the largest amateur (ham) radio convention in the United States, held each year near Dayton, Ohio or, to be precise, at the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia, Ohio. I mention this event for a number of reasons, the first of which is that many of those attending have day jobs working for public safety as sworn personnel or in the IT or communications departments. Many who designed and built the Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems used by public safety today were hams who first experienced communications as a new ham radio operator.
A number of federal government employees and contractors also attend. I was amused that AT&T had a booth in one the buildings and I went to visit it only to find this was the DirectTV group and not the wireless group. The interest in FirstNet was high this year and I had many discussions with those I met about the progress FirstNet and AT&T are making. I especially enjoyed talking with a group of fire and other public safety personnel in a flea market booth. They read my articles and were very interested in my perspective on FirstNet. I also enjoyed talking about the Harris XL-200 4-band handheld I was carrying and my Sonim XP8 phone.
I was happy to see so many pubic safety people there who knew about FirstNet. In previous years they would look confused until FirstNet was explained to them but this year I did not have to do much explaining. When talking with some federal employees and contractors, I learned one of the contractors retired from his federal job and is now a consultant to the same agency. Our discussion was disturbing to say the least. It turns out that the federal government wants to redo its communications contracts and stop using wired connections. This may be the wave of the future, but it appears as though none of those suggesting the changes to the contracts or changes in vendors truly understand that eliminating the need for copper wires is not simply about replacing them with fiber and Voice over IP (VoIP).
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Here are the articles I have selected with the help of Discovery Patterns artificial intelligence:
ExecutiveBiz May 24 05:30
… its work on a national public safety broadband network with the First Responder Network Authority, Urgent Communications reported Wednesday.
WSBT-TV May 23 21:40
It even can act as a GPS. You can hit an emergency function and it sends the latitude and longitude of your position to first responders. “On that app …
everything RF May 23 09:30
The PSR-78-9537 and ADRF’s 2W channelized public safety repeater, PSR-78-9533, will allow building owners and systems integrators to choose …
Urgent Communications May 23 07:10
Last March, AT&T was announced as FirstNet’s contractor to build a nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN), in return for access to 20 …
WRAL.com May 23 07:10
Richard Burr and Thom Tills, the U.S. Senate was right when it voted to overturn the FCC’s abolition of net neutrality — rules that prohibit broadband …
ArsTechnica: Infinite Loop May 21 15:03
Broadband regulators should actually regulate broadband, ex-FCC official says.
Techdirt Corporate Intelligence May 24 08:14
We’ve noted repeatedly how broadband ISPs aren’t just trying to kill net neutrality, they’re trying to kill nearly all state and federal oversight over giant telecom monopolies entirely. From language buried in the net neutrality repeal aimed at preventing states from protecting consumers , to attempts to neuter the FCC and shovel all remaining oversight to an FTC ill-suited to police telecom operators , the end goal really is little to no real oversight of some…
Telia Company May 24 06:45
Telia Company is the first operator in Sweden to bring the Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology to its entire network. The new technology, designed for …
Telecompaper May 24 04:25
For M2M communication, the operator established an NB-IoT (Narrowband- Internet-of-Things) network. Using the 800 MHz and 900 MHz frequencies …
Bloomberg May 23 15:50
Bowing to those use-it-or-lose-it rules, Dish took the first step by moving ahead with plans for an internet of things, a narrow-band network to connect …
Radio World May 23 14:00
The Department of Public Safety within the State of Minnesota requested authority from the Federal Communications Commission so that EAS …
Mobile World Live May 22 11:50
I think that’s already being reflected in the devices, which are a combination of narrowband and supporting legacy 2G for fallback and coverage …
Metering.com May 22 08:15
CyanConnode has signed a $3,2 million deal with Larsen & Toubro for the provision of a narrowband radio mesh network in India.
prsync.com May 21 18:45
Wireless broadband in public safety is a wireless communication network used by the emergency services organization such as police, fire, and …
The National Law Review May 21 15:10
On May 15, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau held an Emergency Alerting Roundtable. The roundtable consisted of two panels …
May 21 12:25
But LTE-M is not the least expensive cellular standard for the internet of things. Narrowband IoT, or NB-IoT, uses even less power and bandwidth than …
PR Newswire May 21 09:50
The new product and ADRF’s 2W channelized public safety repeater, …
National Public Safety Telecommunications Council 