FirstNet Deployments in Tribal Areas Approved by FCC

The FCC Wireless Bureau approved emergency authorization Friday for AT&T and FirstNet to deploy wireless facilities in seven tribal areas. Governors selected the projects in their respective states “as high-priority public safety locations for FirstNet to deploy,” AT&T told the commission: “AT&T plans to deploy these high-priority sites as soon as possible ... and these sites will be operational to provide communications to first responders from that date forward, both during and after” the pandemic.