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Federal Way staff recommend migrating city cellular lines to AT&T FirstNet, citing reliability and multi-year savings
Summary
City IT recommended migrating most municipal cellular lines from Verizon to AT&T FirstNet, saying FirstNet produced more consistent coverage for patrol cars in local testing and staff-provided pilots and that the three-year deal includes device refresh credits.
City information-technology staff told the Finance & Economic Development Committee on Oct. 28 that the city should migrate most municipal cellular and data lines from Verizon to AT&T FirstNet, citing reliability and capacity problems with Verizon on city patrol routes and a demonstrable reliability improvement on a 2018–19 AT&T FirstNet pilot.
Staff said the city currently pays roughly $15,000 per month across Verizon and AT&T lines (about 395 lines total, not including patrol-car mobile routers). Under the proposed FirstNet…
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