States Opt-out – Steel In The Air https://www.steelintheair.com Since 2004, Steel in the Air has served over 3,000 clients, reviewed over 10,000 cellular leases and tracked over 2,000 lease buyout offers. We represent private landowners, corporate property owners and public entities in lease negotiations against wireless carriers and tower companies. We also consult on cell site and cell tower valuation and brokerage. Our cell tower and cell site database has grown to encompass over 285,000 cell site locations nationwide. Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:25:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.steelintheair.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-logo-2-32x32.png States Opt-out – Steel In The Air https://www.steelintheair.com 32 32 Are states going to opt-out of AT&T’s FirstNet? https://www.steelintheair.com/blog/are-states-going-to-opt-out-of-atts-firstnet/ https://www.steelintheair.com/blog/are-states-going-to-opt-out-of-atts-firstnet/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:21:05 +0000 https://www.steelintheair.com/Blog/?p=1425 Now that the Rivada court challenge appears to be resolved, many pundits and experts expect AT&T to be awarded the FirstNet contract.  Once the FirstNet contract is awarded to AT&T (only remaining qualified bidder), AT&T has 180 days to prepare state specific FirstNet plans.  States then have 90 days to decide to opt-in or out.   If they opt-out of FirstNet, states have the option of building their own public safety networks to FirstNet standards.  Some states have already issued RFPs and in one case, awarded the state public safety network to Rivada.  This does not mean that the states will opt-out- just that they are evaluating their options.  Should they choose to opt-out, they have 180 days to issue an RFP or provide FirstNet with a plan for review.  To the extent that a state opt-out, AT&T will not get spectrum or funds in that state.

We prepared this map that represents the states that have issued, awarded, or announced that they plan to issue an RFP.

Map of states with RFPs for FirstNet state networks
states that may opt-out of the nationwide FirstNet
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