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Former Gainesville fire chief Jeff Lane has been given a national award for his push to expand mobile broadband technology to public safety operations.  Lane, who retired in September after five years as the city’s fire chief, is the recipient of this year’s Chief Harlin R. McEwen Public Safety Broadband Communications Award.  “Certainly I’m very honored by the FirstNet Authority Department,” Lane said. “I hope the award reflects that potential, and shows the work we’re doing here is on a national level.” The award, given by FirstNet Authority, is issued once a year to a pu...

10th December 2020 Reliable broadband service from FirstNet already is impacting operations for public-safety agencies and other departments in Gainesville, Fla., but the technological evolution is still in the early stages, according to Jeff Lane, this year’s recipient of the FirstNet Authority’s Harlin McEwen Award. Lane, who recently retired as Gainesville’s fire chief after a 38-year career, said he always has tried to be practical in his approach to new technologies, including FirstNet, the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T. “I’ve always bee...