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FirstNet Authority officials released a request for information (RFI) seeking input about direct-mode and other technological solutions to address the issue of providing broadband communications support “off-network”—when first responders are in a location not supported by FirstNet’s terrestrial macro LTE system.
“We’re looking beyond the horizon—how does this look going forward?—and pulling that into the nationwide public-safety broadband network for that device-to-device connectivity,” FirstNet Authority Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jeff Bratcher said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications…
