New Mexico CIO Seeks FirstNet Interoperability Standards
New Mexico urged the FCC to develop interoperability standards for the national public safety network. “FirstNet/AT&T coverage is insufficient in many parts of this rural State,” so "public safety personnel in different geographic regions within New Mexico may well elect…
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to operate on other public safety networks,” New Mexico Chief Information Officer Vincent Martinez wrote the commission, posted Friday in docket 19-254. “The level of priority and preemption between users on FirstNet/AT&T and other networks must be standardized to avoid a situation in which a high priority public safety user on one network is treated as a commercial user on another network.”