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A female Sheriff’s deputy stands next to a brick wall and watches over a group of students.

Through FirstNet’s extended primary user program, schools, hospitals, and other non-traditional public safety entities can benefit from everything the network has to offer. FirstNet helped one such extended primary user, Texas City Independent School District, communicate during two incidents.

FirstNet Board Member Paul Patrick and FirstNet Authority’s Edward Parkinson toured AAA Ambulance Service's FirstNet-connected ambulance during a demo day at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Thanks to a public-private partnership between the FirstNet Authority and AT&T, FirstNet is now a reality—an expanding nationwide network for EMS and all of public safety. Read how FirstNet can help drive innovations forward and equip EMS practitioners and emergency care providers across the nation with new tools to help them save lives.

Hand holds FirstNet smartphone device with push-to-talk app displayed.

During an emergency, school, university and hospital security and public safety support personnel, as well as staff and administrators, may be called on to support local first responders. FirstNet enables better communications among all of these individuals.

A panel of public safety experts presents to an audience at PSCR’s 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
The FirstNet Authority participated in PSCR 2019 to engage with stakeholders and learned about what’s next for public safety communications. PSCR’s annual meeting includes talks or demos on standards, deployables, data sharing, security, the Internet of Things, and more.