T-Mobile is improving a service that most of you cannot access. On Thursday, the carrier signed an agreement with the New York City to establish its first response to T-Priority, the Rapid Land Service for Public Safety Agencies that T-Mobile presented in September.
“It is the final advantage in the ultimate network,” said Callie Field, president of T-Mobile Business Group, at a Live event on NYC.
“Seconds also matter,” added NYC Matthew Fraser technology official.
T-priority uses a 5g feature called network cutting. First set in August 2023, it gives the equipment and communications of police officers, firefighters, paramediators and other first response and higher priority than those of other users on the network T- Mobile.
“The slice helps us to provide faster speeds even more constantly,” Field said, including the ability to re-determine most of the carrier’s ability for T-advice in an emergency.
She compared it to the 4G base of Firstnet, the government-backed public safety network that AT&T operates, saying that the LET 14 Band of Firstnet offers a tenth of the t-priority capacity.
After this post was published AT&T sent a comment from the President of First-Scott Agnew by supporting that 4G and 5G network as “built exclusively for public safety” and “not a commercial offer-even part of a” while receiving insult in comparison of T-Mobile.
“Instead of working along with America’s first responses to give them the network they sought and deserved, they are using public security as a marketing fraud without much to offer in return,” the statement said. “No connection is more important than what can help save a life, and as a public security partner, Firstnet is in a league of his own.”
In a network crisis, insignificant traffic can end by not surrendering at all-with results such as San Francisco traffic jams caused by Cruise’s self-driving taxis after a network overload left them autonomous vehicles outside the line.
(The Firstnet himself began as a response to the first response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fighting to communicate between equipment in incompatible networks while wireless public networks printed under extreme use.)
T-Mobile was able to give T-Priority his own network slice in 2020, fulfilling one of the early 5G promises, because first began 5G independent-which means its 5G transmitters can directly open a connection to a device instead of using 4G to set it up at & t and verizon that have then begun to roll 5G independent and network cuttings; For example, last short, AT&T announced Plans to set independent 5G for Firstnet.
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Later this year, T-Mobile will include free T-Mobile Starlink by roaming in agency priority plans. This test service that T-Mobile and Spacex announced in 2022 will be an additional $ 15 for all the most expensive T-Mobile customers plans.
T-Mobile also discovered a new set of equipment partners for the priority, including Samsung, which will send broken equipment to the network, and Skydio, which will equip its public safety drones for T-priority .
Finally, the first individual responses as volunteer firefighters will receive free access to that slice of the T -network with priority in their personal equipment. This option, usually $ 7.50 per month, requires carrier The descended descended plans firstwhich itself asks Annual Acceptance Verificationand requires staying in acceptable plans. Subscribers of other deductions of the first T-Mobile response, such as a future essential plan, will be able to add it separately to the usual $ 7.50 rate.
Editor’s Note: We updated this post with comments from AT&T and additional details from T-Mobile.
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