Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...

Wireless smartphone plans are historically confusing and complicated — and this can be especially true when trying to mix and match different plan types. Take AT&T as an example. Ever since the ...

A new federal government project to bring first responders’ communications into the digital age is grappling with a key question: Who’s going to pay for it? Congress last year authorized plans for the ...

That takes its total number of sites to... well, we don't know, because it won't tell us. Hitting its latest rollout goal is a clearly something to be celebrated for the AT&T-backed emergency services ...

The FirstNet Authority, in collaboration with its network partner AT&T, has announced an investment initiative aimed at revolutionizing public safety communications. With a $8 billion allocation over ...

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 ...

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.

Following a rigorous review process, the Route4Me last mile transportation platform is now FirstNet® Verifiedtm and listed in the FirstNet App Catalog. "Our inclusion in the FirstNet App Catalog ...

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 ...

Internal investigators found no serious procedural missteps on FirstNet — the federal board that has been criticized for conducting business behind closed doors as it creates a nationwide wireless ...

One of the 9/11 Commission’s key recommendations in 2004 was that Congress should provide for the expedited and increased assignment of radio spectrum for public safety purposes. It took eight years ...