How Could FirstNet Have Helped in the Boston Marathon Bombing?

During the FirstNet board meeting held April 23, the Boston Marathon bombing was raised and how this future public safety broadband network might have helped in this type of terrorist bombing situation.

FirstNet Board Chairman Sam Ginn felt that “Congress got it right” because FirstNet will build state-of-the-art LTE infrastructure that will allow downloads of video transmission, uploading of camera images, and photos of persons to be swiftly disseminated to law enforcement across jurisdictions. Board member Charles “Chuck” Dowd, deputy chief, New York City Policy Department, gave a further example of bomb squads from various jurisdictions pooling their expertise and working together using real-time, high definition video to help the local bomb squad deal with a particular device.