Elko County approves agreement to host FirstNet-capable portable towers
Elko County approved an agreement to host compact, towable cell towers provided by Public Safety Insights under an AT&T FirstNet arrangement; the company will reimburse mobilization costs and the district reports no net cost, improving comms in remote incidents such as Midas.
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County staff presented an agreement offered by Public Safety Insights to provide towable, FirstNet-connected portable towers that can be mobilized to incident sites. District Chief Matt Peterson said the devices "hook right up to the hitch of a truck" and that "if we'd had this in place last week, we'd have taken it up to Midas, increase some of the communications for the town and the fire."
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