I am disappointed that I cannot find the archived article I wrote a number of years ago and published on April Fool’s Day. I had described how I was at a restaurant in Silicon Valley and at the table next to me were some Microsoft and FCC executives. I reported that they were discussing how Microsoft could buy the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and have access to all the spectrum the FCC controlled. The article went into detail and some readers fell for it. This year I will be sticking to facts and truth!
More IWCE 2022
As I said last week, it was great to be able to attend IWCE again. Yes, the number of attendees and exhibitors were down from pre-Covid years but I am confident that next year, unless there is yet another outbreak of the virus, IWCE should be back where it was a few years and perhaps larger…
SIDNEY — The unsung heroes of the Sidney Police Department lay in the dispatchers; something many officers consider the first life-line that people reach when trying to contact emergency services.
“Odds are, there are two people you’ll call when things go really wrong: the one family member or trusted friend that’s been there through everything and one of our 911 dispatchers,” Sidney Police Officer Rachel Croskrey said…
Iredell County commissioners spent more than two hours Tuesday digging into a consultants’ operational assessment of the Emergency Communications Center.
County officials commissioned the $178,000 study in response to significant criticism of ECOM’s performance by public safety agencies throughout the county as well as ongoing criticism of the department’s handling of emergency calls by popular social media outlet Iredell Firewire and some of its 52,000 followers…
It is considered one of the most stressful jobs in America, they work at all hours of the day and night, they will remain on the phone with someone as long as they are needed and they respond to every type of emergency call, reacting with lightning speed. They are the telecommunicators, but most know them more commonly as dispatchers.
National Public Safety Telecommunications Week (NPSTW) is observed every second week in the month of April to recognize, appreciate and celebrate the work of telecommunicators helping to save lives every day…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Who is going to respond when you call 911? It might not be who you think for people in the metro area. The city is working on a new response to certain calls that do not include a law enforcement response. This is still in the very early planning phases, and it is expected to roll out in early 2023.
Stephen Martini is in charge of the Metro Nashville Communications Center. Dispatchers, there are tasked with asking the right questions to make sure the people on the other line are getting the help they need. Martini restructured their call system when Partners in Care started in June… READ MORE
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
