BOZEMAN, Mont. – Several dispatch centers in Montana are reporting they are experiencing issues receiving 9-1-1 calls from some carriers.
A release from the City of Billings says the outage is impacting cell phones and landlines differently across the nation.
If you call 9-1-1 and get a busy signal, you are asked to hang up and try again…
A Verizon outage has left many residents of Casper and beyond without the means to make phone calls. But what about those who are having an emergency?
Natrona County Emergency Management has put out a social media post, stating that if people are experiencing an emergency and are unable to call 9-1-1, they can text their emergency to that same number.
“Verizon Wireless is reporting intermittent Voice Call Disruption in Natrona County, as well as in Sublette County, and possibly other areas of the state,” Natrona County Emergency Management wrote in a Facebook post. “This is a multi-state outage, and there is currently no estimated time until repair…
At IWCE 2022, FirstNet announced a new, significant upgrade to FirstNet (Built with AT&T) that prompted me to write about communications tools for first responders.
One of these tools is actually an upgrade to the network that many of us have been expecting for a long time. This network enhancement makes it possible to send Push-To-Talk (PTT) voice, data, and video to multiple devices simultaneously (multicasting). The most significant effect I see with multicasting videos is that this activity consumes much more bandwidth than PTT. Multicast, or eMBS, is important because it not only supports one-to-many broadcasts over the network, it adds yet another attribute which, until now, only Land Mobile Radio (LMR) could provide…
President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission is drawing opposition from an unusual array of foes, including a police group, a North Dakota Democrat and former Republican aides working to stymie the president’s agenda.
Gigi Sohn, who would give Democrats a majority on the five-member commission and potentially revive net neutrality policies she favors, has yet to get a vote of the full Senate, almost six months after her selection by Biden…
County volunteer firefighters received an update on the new CAD system from Lewis/Gilmer E-911 Center Director Jim Gum and Assistant Director Keith Talbert at the LC Firefighters Association meeting on April 18 at Pricetown VFD. Plans to purchase a new CAD system were finalized in spring of 2021.
In February, Talbert said they are currently receiving training on the new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system. He and Gum requested that every department let OEM know how many VPN licenses are needed, factoring in signing in to the system at the station and/or in an emergency response vehicle…
