by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
FirstNet subscribers have access to the wireless network with the largest coverage footprint in the United States by more than 50,000 square miles, AT&T stated this week as part of press announcement released on the 10th anniversary of the FirstNet Authority being created.
Jason Porter, president of AT&T’s public-sector and FirstNet business units, said AT&T—the FirstNet Authority’s contractor building the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN)—has spent more than $130 billion on wireless infrastructure and spectrum in the five years since being awarded the FirstNet contract in March 2017…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
OGDENSBURG — Beginning in June, anyone who calls the Ogdensburg Police Department with an emergency will be advised to hang up and dial 911, the latest move by the city as it works to transfer its police dispatching to St. Lawrence County.
On Wednesday, St. Lawrence County Attorney Stephen D. Button was notified in a letter written by Cheryl I. Sacco with Coughlin & Gerhart LLP, a firm representing the city, that it will “cease providing City Police Dispatch and the County needs to handle Police dispatch obligations in the same manner that it does Fire and EMS calls from the City…
by ECC Editor | Feb 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wis. (CBS 58) — What would you do if you were placed on hold when you called 911 during an emergency?
Waukesha County 911 operators are trying to make sure that doesn’t happen in the community they serve, as national employment struggles continue to have an impact locally. That could mean you have to wait longer for help.
Dan Szpek, Waukesha County 911 telecommunicator, said when they’re short-staffed like they are now, they will answer your call ASAP, but there will be times when there is a wait.
“The same way a hospital might triage injuries, someone with a rolled ankle is going to sit in the ER longer than someone with difficulty breathing,” said Szpek… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 24, 2022 | Comm Center News, Press Release
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Airgain, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRG), a leading provider of advanced wireless connectivity technologies and systems used to enable high performance networking across a broad range of devices and markets, today announced that it has been awarded the Andrew Seybold Award for Technology Innovation by the Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA). The award was announced at the 10-Year Anniversary Celebration for FirstNet®, hosted by the PSBTA, the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA), and All Things FirstNet. FirstNet® is the only nationwide wireless broadband communications network dedicated to America’s first responders and public safety community. It was created through legislation signed in 2012 by President Barack Obama and built out through a public-private partnership between the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T…
by ECC Editor | Feb 24, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
Nine organizations on Wednesday announced the launch of Airwaves for Equity, a coalition focused on asking Congress to dedicate the net proceeds from future spectrum auctions to support digital literacy and inclusion efforts.
Under the Airwaves for Equity proposal, Congress would dedicate a “substantial portion” of wireless spectrum auction revenues to endow the foundation. The most recent FCC auction, of 3.45 GHz airwaves, raised more than $21.8 billion, and the one before that, the C-band 3.7 GHz auction, raised over $81 billion… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
Some of the Lorain County public safety agencies that are part of a five-city plan to upgrade their radio systems have made the switch to the L3Harris system recently, while others are still in the process.
The system has been on the air in a testing phase since November, said Alan Close, owner of Cleveland Communications Inc.
The Parma-based Cleveland Communications is a supplier of the 700/800 MHz L3Harris radio system that the North Ridgeville, Avon, Avon Lake, Sheffield and Sheffield Lake fire departments have agreed to switch to… READ MORE
