By Kenzie Capece, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority
Earlier this month, the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet Authority) Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) held its Spring Business Meeting to discuss the committee’s efforts in 2021 and its ongoing plans to support FirstNet’s growth and expansion. Discussions highlighted accomplishments and business updates in 2021, PSAC Strike Team efforts, and PSAC User Working Group updates.
The Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training is pleased to announce the graduation of its 123rd Basic Telecommunications Class.
The three-week course includes emergency call handling techniques, stress management, civil liability, ethics, criminal law, overview of fire-rescue and law enforcement operations and a number of other topics. Upon completion of the course, students returned to their employing agency to continue their training for a number of months with a field training officer…
As the demand for mobile wireless services continues to explode, the search for underutilized spectrum that can be repurposed from low- to high-value commercial use never ends. For the most part, the Federal Communications Commission under the leadership of former Chairman Ajit Pai had a good track record in this regard, including successfully repurposing the 900 MHz band, navigating the byzantine complexities of the C-Band to get that auction off the ground, and converting the 5.9 MHz band for Wi-Fi use. But while kudos are certainly due, in fairness we need to recognize that the Pai Administration also had its missteps.
The opinion article appears in yalejreg.com dated May 27, 2021
Local residents took to social media this past weekend with concerns about unanswered 911 calls in Tallahassee.
Among them were questions and claims such as, “Are there no 9-1-1 services after 6PM?” and “I had that happen to me once when I saw a car accident in the middle of the day.”
Who knows more about what public-safety and critical-communications users need? I think the answer has changed several times over the years, and today it is those within the public-safety community itself who best know which communications capabilities they need and which capabilities they would like to have.
Public-safety communications turned from landline to two-way radio starting in the 1920s and further matured in the 1930s. At that time, the main players in the public-safety communications arena were Link Communications and Motorola. Both companies provided radio equipment and technology during World War II, and when the war was over, they returned to the public-safety market where a number of significant advancements had been made…
SPRINGFIELD — Workers situated in an out-of-the way location are always at the center of emergency responses in Effingham County.
The E-911 Call Center at 181 Recycle Way serves as a communications bridge between citizens in need of public safety assistance and people who provide that service.
“You know,” E-911 Director Jay Spinks said, “the 911 dispatchers, they’re sitting at their consoles, they come in, get ready for their 12-hour shifts, they sit down — on one side of them they have the radio console full of 16 channels they have to monitor on a daily basis for 12 hours and in a major event, a major crisis such as a hurricane, automatically those 16 channels go to 30 channels they have to start monitoring…
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.
