A Public Safety Agency Roadmap for Successful Mission Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT) Implementation

Starting this year, public safety agencies across the United States will be able to leverage smartphone-based push-to-talk for mission critical operations. Mission Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT) provides the features and functionality traditionally used in connection with land mobile radio (LMR) systems but adapted for LTE mobile devices and networks. This functionality will be fully operational on FirstNet, which was built with AT&T. This nationwide communications platform will provide public safety with both the core communications functionality it has come to rely on and the enhanced broadband capabilities that modern first responder agencies need.