FirstNet Consults With Rural Montana on Public Safety Network
Rural Montanans asked about national public safety network coverage in a FirstNet state consultation meeting in rural Glasgow this month, FirstNet Region 8 Outreach and Consultation Lead Tracey Murdock wrote in a Wednesday blog post. FirstNet also visited Billings, Montana’s…
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largest city, with a population of about 115,000, Murdock said. “Montana public safety leaders also expressed interest in the potential cost of subscribing to the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network, the use of their own devices on the Network, the security of data, and meeting Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rules,” she wrote. “We also received feedback on the types of mobile applications they wished they had, such as layered mapping to know what is under the road and real-time satellite imaging for wild fires. An EMS [emergency medical service] provider discussed how the network could improve access to emergency information that is now only available to law enforcement.”