The attacks of 9/11 revealed the incompatible and balkanized state of emergency and public safety communications in America, with police unable to communicate by radio with firefighters. When ...

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The prize for the most wasteful post-9/11 initiative arguably should go to FirstNet—a whole new agency set up to provide a telecommunications system exclusively for firefighters, police, and other ...

Wildland fires continue to burn at all-time highs. From January to July 2021, more than 2.6 million acres were burned nationwide, including the massive, yet-to-be-contained Bootleg Fire in Oregon. In ...

Wireless smartphone plans are historically confusing and complicated — and this can be especially true when trying to mix and match different plan types. Take AT&T as an example. Ever since the ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airgain, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRG), a leading provider of advanced wireless 5G connectivity solutions, has obtained FirstNet Trusted TM certification for its flagship vehicle ...

For decades first responders have been limited to essentially unchanged radio communications for voice. Today, first responders rely on more than 10,000 separate, incompatible, and often proprietary ...

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) is moving fast toward its goal of a dedicated nationwide public safety communications network. On May 13, the federal agency published an updated map ...

FirstNet is run by AT&T and was affected by last week's outage. When FirstNet, the emergency communications network, went out of service last Thursday morning, some law enforcement officials who spoke ...

he Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were devastating, and nearly 25 years later, Americans’ hearts still ache. The memory of that day weighs especially heavy on the minds of first responders who ...

That takes its total number of sites to... well, we don't know, because it won't tell us. Hitting its latest rollout goal is a clearly something to be celebrated for the AT&T-backed emergency services ...

Connections on FirstNet have topped 7 million, up from 6.7 million at the end of Q4, while terrestrial network coverage has increased by 20,000 square miles to reach 2.99 million square miles across ...