Background: From 9/11 to Congressional Action Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, investigations revealed significant ...

As Winter Storms Fern and Gianna moved through in January, FirstNet, Built with AT&T delivered the critical connectivity ...

Congress created a program to help first responders. It turned into a massive subsidy for AT&T.

A House subcommittee will take up a bipartisan bill that would make structural changes to the public-private FirstNet system.

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 ...

When it comes to public safety, resiliency is paramount in communications, particularly in a time of crisis. In the coming year, Congress has an opportunity to fix a program intended to help first ...

If you’re a first responder, there’s a good chance that you’ve already heard of FirstNet. But you may not know why it was established and how it can benefit you—particularly in emergency situations.

The attacks of 9/11 revealed the incompatible and balkanized state of emergency and public safety communications in America, with police unable to communicate by radio with firefighters. When ...

FirstNet is run by AT&T and was affected by last week's outage. When FirstNet, the emergency communications network, went out of service last Thursday morning, some law enforcement officials who spoke ...

As Congress considers the reauthorization of FirstNet (a wireless network exclusively for first responders), public safety associations are lining up in support while competitors for the contract are ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says Congress should consider reauthorizing the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) before 2027 to ensure network continuity. The FirstNet authority ...

Sen. Fischer advocates for the reauthorization of FirstNet, emphasizing its crucial role in public safety communication.