by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 3, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
December 2, 2020 – Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel of the Federal Communications Commission – and who appears to be considered for elevation to chairman of the agency under President-elect Joe Biden – advocated that the T-Band auction be stopped by Congress and that the status of 911 responders be changed.
Speaking at a conference of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials on Tuesday, Rosenworcel reiterated that there has long been bipartisan support for not having auctions in the T-Band…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 3, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
FirstNet Timeline It wasn’t until February 2012 that Congress attached the creation of FirstNet to a bill that was signed into law on February 22,…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The year 2020 long will be remembered for being a turbulent year. No other in recent history spawned so many challenges for the fire service, and dispatch was far from immune. As field personnel coped with how to best respond during an epidemic, dispatchers dealt with the new reality of infection control in the communications center. The typical PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) is rife with the potential to spread germs: a confined space, which often has questionable ventilation, where telecommunicators literally sit elbow to elbow for 12 or more hours at a time, communally sharing devices, such as keyboards and chairs, and repeatedly touching common surfaces, including console surfaces, monitors, telephones and controls. In some smaller centers, headsets even might be passed from person to person during shift change…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The largest prize challenge in NIST’s history reached its culmination last month as contestants of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a software development prize competition birthed by NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) with partners the First Responder Network Authority and FirstNet by AT&T, earned nearly $500K in funding for exhibiting progress toward commercialization after gaining initial funding during the May Demonstration Round contest…
by ECC Editor | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Cloud-based 911 solutions provider Carbyne announced a strategic technology partnership with legacy 911 vendor CentralSquare that is designed to let public-safety answering point (PSAP) customers benefit from the integration of the two companies’ offerings as the migrate to next-generation 911 (NG911)… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 1, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Have you ever been in an emergency and called 911? Most of you would have, and the person who responds to your call is a 911 dispatcher whose duty is to receive the calls and respond to an emergency. The 911 dispatcher is another career within the law enforcement agencies that act as a bridge to mitigate emergencies within the United States.
There are many tempting aspects of the job of 911 Dispatcher that has compelled many people to look for the ways of becoming a 911 dispatcher, if you are reading this article you might be one of them who wonder, how to become a dispatcher or how much do 911 dispatchers make?
