by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 26, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
Verizon Frontline has the greatest level of public-safety broadband adoption of any U.S. carrier, providing almost 4.5 million connections to 30,000 public-safety entities, a Verizon Frontline official said last week. Patty Roze, vice president of public-sector sales for Verizon, cited the statistics during her portion of the company’s keynote presentation on Thursday morning at IWCE 2022 in Las Vegas.
While public-safety officials celebrated the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the law establishing FirstNet last month, AT&T claimed that its network footprint now covers 2.81 million square miles—a figure that was more than 50,000 square miles more than any other U.S. wireless carrier, according to AT&T.
But AT&T’s coverage advantage is much greater than this, based on figures shared by Roze, who mentioned coverage numbers during the keynote while emphasizing Verizon’s considerable financial commitment to build out its wireless network. Based on this coverage figure provided by Roze, AT&T would have a 130,000-square-mile coverage advantage when compared to Verizon…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
Austin Partners with Williamson County for Automatic Aid in Fire Dispatch
On February 15, 2022, the City of Austin, with partners in Williamson County, went live with a system that extends Automatic Aid for fire dispatch. The new system, Tellus, is an interface that brings together disparate Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems to share information. This allows City of Austin Fire dispatchers to see where the units belonging to Georgetown, Cedar Park, and Round Rock fire departments are located when dispatching for an incident. The CAD system will automatically dispatch the closest unit, regardless of jurisdiction…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
March 24 (UPI) — Police in Ohio are reminding the public not to call 911 about their fast food disputes after a woman used the emergency number to complain about her KFC order.
The Euclid Police Department said Chagrin Valley Dispatch 911 received a call on Tuesday from a woman who told a dispatcher she did not receive enough chicken at the KFC drive-through.
The woman said she had paid for eight pieces of chicken, but only received four…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
A former supervisor in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department’s 911 center – accused of an extensive pattern of sexual assault and harassment of female co-workers – faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges Thursday.
Brett A. Rider, 48, of Kenmore, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted rape and one count of sexual abuse, all felonies. The crimes occurred between 2009 and 2019…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 25, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
LAS VEGAS—AT&T supports the notion that in-building systems supporting first-responder communications on FirstNet should meet public-safety-grade requirements for coverage and resiliency, but questions remain about the business model for building owners that are expected to provide most—if not all—of the funding.
Steve Devine, AT&T’s director of public-safety policy and strategy for FirstNet, said that in-building coverage requirement for FirstNet on 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum should mirror the requirements that fire codes have for land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems, not just a typical in-building commercial deployment. This would require additional hardening of the systems and mandate coverage in areas of structures where public-safety works…
