FirstNet in California

FirstNet State Plan Review

August 23, 2017

This document was prepared with help from SAIC under contract with Cal OES using funds under award 06-10-S13006 from the National Telecommunications and Information

Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect

the views of the NTIA, DOC, or FirstNet.

Topics

• FirstNet – Historical Review

• Overview of AT&T’s proposed plan

• State Plan Review Meetings - Event statistics

• Public Safety Feedback - What We Heard

• Ongoing Collaboration & Next Steps

FIRSTNET - PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORK

9/1/2017

FIRSTNET - PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORK

9/1/2017

FIRSTNET - LAW

• Signed into law on February

22, 2012, the Middle Class

Tax Relief and Job Creation Act

FirstNet

• FirstNet is an Independent

authority within the U.S.

Department of Commerce’s

National Telecommunications

and Information

Administration (NTIA)

9/1/2017

FIRSTNET ARCHITECTURE

9/1/2017

The Role of Cal OES

Governance

• Continued governance and

stakeholder communications

remain important throughout

network deployment and

operations

Overview of California Coverage Priority

FirstNet Baseline

Coverage map was

overlaid with 9-1-1

call locations, tribal

lands, and other

public safety threat

areas onto

FirstNet’s baseline

coverage objectives

Overview of California Priorities

Innovative Public-Private Partnership

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Creating an infrastructure dedicated to public safety

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FirstNet / AT&T Plan • User Types – Defining Priority

– Primary Users

– Extended Primary Users

– Volunteer Users

• Quality of Service, Priority and Preemption – QPP on Band 14 and all AT&T Commercial LTE Bands

– Priority and Preemption for all primary users at no additional

cost

– Three levels of permanent priority that can be assigned by

public safety

• FirstNet Monitoring – Local Control and Device Management

• Ability to Monitor Network in real time

• Ability to enable and disable devices locally

Steps to State Plan

(Initial Plan)

(Final Plan)

Sept 19, 2017

Attendees

by Location

State Plan Review Meetings

• 12 Outreach Meetings

• 784 Attendees

• 228 Feedback Forms

• 687 Comments – Confident we know what California needs

Survey Comments

Survey Results – Top Priority

Blue indicates AT&T

coverage claims

What did we hear?

Red dots indicate poor

coverage comments

1. Coverage – Most important

“If you don’t have

coverage, nothing

else matters”

- Rural Coverage

Matters

Public Safety Feedback

What else did we hear? Top 5 State Plan priorities heard from attendees:

1. Coverage – Most important, and above anything else

- Community Anchor Institutions

- Rural coverage matters

2. Cost – Must be at or below what paying now

3. Public Safety Grade – No hardening assurances in plan

4. Access to Critical Systems – 9-1-1 Dispatch Data

5. Security - Identity and Credentialing

- Single System Sign-On (SSO)

- Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

- Mobile Device Management (MDM)

What will we be looking for? Answers to all 687 comments submitted by California

Build-out commitments with locations and dates

Commitment to involve CalOES in the process to establish priority for new site

construction and coverage enhancements

Plan for LA-RICS integration

A site-hardening plan

Aggressive plan to deliver X,Y,Z Location-based coordinates

Commitment on number of deployables in California

More robust unlimited data selection on all mobile devices

Commitment to involve CalOES in the Local Control Tool development

Me-too clause (in relation to concessions granted to other states)

Secure access to CLETS/CJIS and integration with Next Gen 9-1-1

Updated coverage maps that reflect realistic depiction of coverage

Develop public/private partnership for site locations

AT&T engineering assistance with mobile installs and support for smaller

agencies

• Weekly meetings with AT&T and FirstNet to:

- Identify priority new site build locations

- Rural coverage considerations

- Public safety grade site hardening

- Clarify user cost profiles

Next Steps • Continue to work with AT&T and provide feedback on

proposed plan

• Prepare Technical Advisory Group for review of final plan

• Prepare Opt-In / Opt-Out analysis

• Finalize draft Opt-Out RFP

Ongoing Collaboration

FirstNet Users

Quality of Service, Priority and Preemption

FirstNet monitoring