NTIA submits this Progress Report pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum issued on June 28, 2010, which directed the Department of Commerce, working through NTIA and in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to identify and make available 500 megahertz of spe...
NTIA URGES FCC TO ADOPT RADIO RECEIVER STANDARDS The Commerce Departments National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in comments filed today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt performance standards for non-government radio receivers to f...
The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created FirstNet and set out a requirement that its board establish a standing public safety advisory committee to assist it in carrying out its duties and responsibilities. The FirstNet Board at its inaugural meeting in Septemb...
This notice announces a public meeting of the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee. CSMAC provides advice to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information on spectrum management policy matters. The meeting will be held on January 17, 2013, at the U....
We are seeking a highly qualified and motivated candidate to become the General Manager of FirstNet. This position shall be responsible for implementing the policies and strategies approved by the Board, and overseeing all of the day-to-day operations of FirstNet, akin to a Chief Exec...
The Mobile Data Users Group (MDUG) is an self-sustained organization of Public Safety and Enterprise wireless data professionals, with the charter to promote the exchange of information and experience across its member base. Its membership primarily consists of city, county, and state...
This report, NTIA's third in the Falling Through the Net series, relies on December 1998 U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau data to provide an updated snapshot of the digital divide. The good news is that Americans are more connected than ever before. Access to computers and th...
A treaty conference in which only member states have a vote is most definitely not the right venue for such discussions. No one should mistake such a conference for an open, multistakeholder process. Certainly, much could be done to improve the transparency of a treaty conference such...
NTIA will convene open public meetings of the Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). The meetings will be held on December 11, 2012; April 23, 2013; August 13, 2013; and October 15, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time in Washington, D.C. Additional meeting...
Background: The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Act), Public Law 112-96 , 126 Stat. 156 (2012), created FirstNet as an independent authority within NTIA. The Act directs FirstNet to establish a single nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network. The...
Chief McEwen has over five decades of experience as both an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues and as a career law enforcement officer and administrator. As chairman of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. (PSST), he had been a leader in earlier efforts to establis...
Spectrum Management 500 MHz Initiative IRAC CSMAC International WRC-15 Spectrum Sharing AWS (1710-1755 MHz) Transition Broadband Grants Adoption Resources Digital Literacy Digital Nation Reports National Broadband Map Internet Policy Internet Policy Task Force Privacy Cybersecurity Co...
After joining NTIA, Strickling oversaw the development of an approximately $4 billion Recovery Act broadband grants program and now manages the rigorous oversight of these nationwide broadband projects to ensure they deliver timely and lasting benefits to the American public. Addition...
EDUCAUSE, an association of more than 1500 American colleges and universities, strongly endorses the formation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. We believe that the legal documents under which ICANN has been incorporated fulfill the principles and intent of t...
· I agree: It is wise to work with the cell phone operators especially with respect to digital data. The data feeds available through the trunked radio are very limited ( a few Kbits/sec) and will never provide the bandwidths that are required for some of the nice-to-have applications...
· I agree: It is wise to work with the cell phone operators especially with respect to digital data. The data feeds available through the trunked radio are very limited ( a few Kbits/sec) and will never provide the bandwidths that are required for some of the nice-to-have applications...
