by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 23, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
While continuing research for my book on FirstNet, I happened across an Advocate published on July 26, 2010 entitled, “Mr. Seybold Goes to Washington.” I believe this column is a good recap of the activities the Public Safety Alliance (PSA), APCO, and others were engaged in and the politics they were up against. With the D-Block, another 10 MHZ of spectrum would be added to the 10 MHz then licensed to the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST), bringing the total public-safety broadband spectrum to 20 MHz, which was what we believed we needed to ensure public safety would have sufficient broadband spectrum to operate nationwide. At the time, we thought our activity toward the end of July, 2010 boded well for winning the D-Block spectrum and establishment of a Nationwide Public-Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN)…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Comm Center News
The NG9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (NIOC), the independent oversight body for standards-driven interoperability programs for NG9-1-1, is proud to announce approval and signature of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with DigiCert for the US PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) on July 17, 2020 (In Canada, the CRTC mandated that NG9-1-1 network providers are to provide PCAs)…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Comm Center News
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NENA seeks volunteers for a new working group to write a NENA Information Document that will provide guidance and recommended best practices to the PSAPs for the use of supplemental location and caller information as identified in the Recommended Best Practices for Supplemental 9-1-1 Location Data document created by NENA staff, NASNA and iCERT. In addition to supplemental location data, this document will include emergency contact information, medical data, telematics information, and other data types available from IoT devices…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
In this article, we will discuss the transition from land mobile radios to FirstNet and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each network.
Public safety identified a need for a better communication network after the attacks on September 11, 2001, when first responder’s radio systems could not easily operate across police, fire, and paramedics. During 9/11, land and mobile power lines received a high volume of calls, making it difficult to communicate. For over 11 years, public safety advocates created the 9/11 Commission Report and pushed Congress to act and pass legislation for the dedicated network. Congress ultimately created the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) in 2012.
This article appears on telecomdrive.com dated July 22, 2020.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Jobs
The Montgomery County Department of Public Safety-Emergency Communications Division is an answering point for police, fire, emergency medical and emergency management services within Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Service is our one and only product and our continuing goal is to provide it at a level superior to any other communications center. This is achieved daily by our 9-1-1 Telecommunicators…
