NPSTC Says AT&T Wrong on Definition of Public Safety-Grade Communications
The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council slammed AT&T purported comments questioning whether there's a consensus definition for public safety-grade communications. NPSTC cited a “detailed 115-page definition of public safety grade for broadband” released by 16 public safety groups in 2014…
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and APCO’s work to create an American National Standards Institute standard. “NPSTC is disappointed that FirstNet's commercial partner, AT&T, has on numerous occasions stated that it is not aware of a single agreed upon definition for public safety grade,” NPSTC said in a statement Friday. “It is clearly apparent that numerous NPSTC-generated public safety broadband requirements submitted to the PSAC [FirstNet's Public Safety Advisory Committee] have significantly influenced FirstNet's [request for proposal] for which AT&T's contract was awarded. Public safety stakeholders have spent thousands of hours developing broadband requirements and expect a public safety grade system.” AT&T didn't comment.