Public TV Stations Push FCC to Mandate FirstNet Datacasting Interoperability [telecom]

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APTS says AT&T, FirstNet have not been open to 'serious discussions.'

By John Eggerton

Public TV stations say they have been trying to get FirstNet and the carrier whose network it is running on, AT&T, to make the broadband first responder communications network interoperable with broadcast datacasting, made possible thanks to ATSC 3.0, but with no luck so far.