The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council released a six-page paper today that provides βan overview of the similarities and differences, and interconnectivity between the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (FirstNet) and Next Generation 9-1-1 networks (NG9-1-1).β The paper notes that β[w]hen properly designed and implemented, NG9-1-1 systems and FirstNet will complement each other in multiple ways and will provide public safety with a broad range of new capabilities.β