About PSBTA The Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA) is focused exclusively on ensuring the success of the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. AT&T said most phone numbers connected to a Commerce Department-linked public safety network service relied on by U.S. first responders ...

"When Disaster Strikes… What Happens Next?" will Guide First Responders and Emergency Managers Through the Disaster ...

The prize for the most wasteful post-9/11 initiative arguably should go to FirstNet—a whole new agency set up to provide a telecommunications system exclusively for firefighters, police, and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) As former senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, we sparred on many policy ...

Users like you and me are preoccupied with the best download speeds and the cheapest plan when it comes to choosing between Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T. But if one is a first responder, things are a bit ...

The Department of Commerce’s FirstNet must establish a nationwide broadband network for public safety officials (like police officers and firefighters). In 2017, FirstNet awarded AT&T a contract to ...

Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, investigations revealed significant communication failures among first responders. Police and fire departments operated on incompatible radio systems, ...

Now that the Department of the Navy has opted into FirstNet, the nationwide dedicated public-safety communications platform that AT&T is building, work is starting on identifying eligible entities and ...

The First Responder Network Authority now has a $7 billion pot to build the nation’s first interoperable emergency communications system designed to work in all 50 states, territories and the District ...

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Amid the chaos of the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, I talked to AT&T and first responders about how they plan and operate during events like this. At the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix race, Rich ...