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By Richard Mirgon, Public Safety Consultant
As I was writing some comments on social media the other day I had to go back and look at the legislation that brought us FirstNet and the requirement that FirstNet be built using commercial standards. That entire section was very purposeful at the time and today it has worked out to the benefit of public safety. We have seen that public safety can now get public safety grade devices at reasonable prices. We see applications being developed at record speeds and innovation happening unlike anything ever seen by public safety.
One segment of that innovation is related to HPUE or High-Power User Equipment. HPUE is part of the secret sauce of the FirstNet Network. Many users don’t realize that the power outputs of spectrum usage is regulated by the FCC and is critical to the range of the user devices. Back in the old days a public safety handheld might have a power output of 7 watts…
