My wife is a flight nurse. A couple years ago the company she worked for requested all employees move over to FirstNet for "enhanced coverage and priority for first responders". So dutifully we moved over. I can say from first hand experience that FirstNet by AT&T was literally the worse service we had, ever! Over the years we've been with the big 3 carriers in the U.S. and FirstNet blew them all out of the water in how bad it was. Constant dropped calls and missed texts. Abysmal "5G" speeds (.5Mbs vs 500Mbs on T-mobile, same spot, same phone). The flight crews discovered they couldn't receive texts and calls while airborne in the helicopter and FirstNet basically said it was impossible, even though they did on other carriers. It was such a huge success that the company dumped FirstNet a few months later. Luckily we brought our own devices and weren't locked in to a multi-year agreement. Others were not so lucky.
Verizon, is of course, Verizon and they suck in their own separate and special ways and T-mobile can't keep your data safe no matter how hard they try. But FirstNet by far is such a horrible disservice to first responders that the gov't should tear up that 25 year contract right now and take whatever hit financially by backing out of it. IMO, FirstNet trying to coerce Verizon into helping them out only underscores how bad a service it really is.

I missed the part in the article where we're supposed to care.

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Translation: More Explosions.

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