The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) named Jeremy Zollo chief market engagement officer, a new position created to oversee the organization’s collaboration with stakeholders across market segments, including public safety, industry, academia and government partners.

The Defense Information Systems Agency selected AT&T to consolidate the U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) disparate data communications networks onto a single modernized data communication platform.

Industry consultant and educator Andrew Seybold takes a look back at the difference between network capacity requirements for commercial and public-safety broadband networks and explores why that difference is important in discussion surrounding 4.9 GHz.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) awarded Mike Duyck the Chief Harlin R. McEwan Public-Safety Broadband Communications Award at its Nov. 17 board meeting.

AT&T announced that it now has more than 18,500 public-safety agencies, accounting for more than 2.8 million connections, subscribed to the FirstNet network.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the appointment of 11 people to serve on the board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority). Raimondo also named Stephen Benjamin, mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, as the FirstNet Authority’s new board chair.

FirstNet, built with AT&T and O2X Human Performance are collaborating to support the health, wellness and human performance of first responders. This program brings health, wellness and resilience training workshops to first responders and will be held in five cities across Florida, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and Ohio.

AT&T announced it is investing tens of millions of dollars to further harden its network in Louisiana against the impact of hurricanes and tropical storms by burying fiber-optic infrastructure previously deployed on poles across some of the hardest hit areas during Hurricane Ida.

The third-quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Plenary e-meetings of 2021 recently concluded. Participants spent considerable time on preliminary scoping of the Release 18 (R18) feature content and schedule.

The U.S. Air Force selected FirstNet to deliver reliable, always-on priority communications to its public-safety personnel and, for first responders, pre-emption, on 15 bases across the country.