The National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) and the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) are partnering on an in-building public-safety communications certification program.

As the critical communications industry gradually transitions, we are expecting to see it complement or replace highly reliable and secure TETRA and other radio networks with LTE technologies.

Verizon is providing critical communications support for Super Bowl 55 in Tampa Bay, Florida, in a year where the Super Bowl will look quite different due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The telecommunications regulators of Mexico and Colombia launched consultations considering whether to allow unlicensed use in the 6 GHz band.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) continued its after-action review of the bombing of an AT&T building in Nashville, Tennessee, meeting last week with public-safety officials and FirstNet subscribers in states that were affected by the service outage.

Mission-critical communications are called that for a good reason, which is that they cannot fail regardless of the circumstances. But, fail they do, for all sorts of reasons. A good continuity of operations plan is key to ensuring the failure doesn’t impact the ability to complete your mission.

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) is seeking comment on a request by an Illinois water company to share public-safety frequencies.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) jointly announced that the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute will spearhead a $268,000 project to develop interoperability standards for CAD systems used by the nation’s public-safety agencies.

In its financial results for 2020, AT&T said it now has more than 1.9 million FirstNet connections and more than 15,000 agencies are now using the FirstNet service.

A coalition of public-safety and critical infrastructure organizations sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to pause any certifications for commercial devices to be used on 6 GHz spectrum.