The FirstNet Authority Board has voted to use network reinvestment funds to expand coverage indoors, in a move that will allow its network partner, AT&T, to offer an indoor coverage extension service to FirstNet customers.
FirstNet said that the approved network reinvestment is intended to “increase FirstNet coverage where public safety agencies operate indoors, such as police headquarters, fire stations, Emergency Communication Centers, and other critical sites and field locations.” The agency described the indoor-coverage enhancing service as a small-cell-based “RAN extension” that will be available to first responder agencies which subscribe to FirstNet services.
