Welcome to November 2020. The election is finally behind us, COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in the United States, and the number of wildfires, major storms, and hurricanes continue to make our first responders’ work even more essential. When FirstNet was created in February of 2012, it was a result of the public-safety community having banded together across disciplines. The Public Safety Alliance (PSA) sought and received support from a variety of organizations including governors, mayors and most LMR venders.

NextNav the availability of its software development kit (SDK) for the Pinnacle vertical positioning service on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) API Catalog, which is a curated catalog of public-safety-relevant application programming interfaces (APIs) and SDKs.

AT&T announced that it had completed the sale of its wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) to Liberty Latin America. The transaction includes employees, network assets and spectrum, real estate and leases, more than 1 million wireless subscribers and contracts.

The FCC approved Liberty Latin America’s acquisition of AT&T’s Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) operations, following an agreement between Liberty and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that allowed the acquisition to move forward.

About a decade ago, the commercial wireless sector launched networks based 4G LTE. The public-safety community, via the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), made a similar decision to deploy 4G LTE for its nationwide public safety broadband network (NPSBN), which is being implemented in concert with AT&T. From the beginning, it was assumed that the NPSBN would leverage, on some level, commercial infrastructure.

Liberty Latin America entered into a consent judgment with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that will allow it to complete its previously announced acquisition of AT&T’s wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) released an update to its road map.

AT&T announced its financial results for the third-quarter of 2020. Overall, the company reported consolidated revenues of $42.3 billion, compared to $44.6 billion in the year-ago quarter, and cash of from operations of $12.1 billion.

The U.S. Army selected the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) to support firefighters, law enforcement and security personnel at 72 Army installations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Assured Wireless Corporation (AWC) announced that its family of high-power user equipment (HPUE) will be available early next year. The company described the products as the first HPUE products available for the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).