[Scan-DC] Maryland’s Tilghman Island Receives New FirstNet Site

[Alan Henney]

https://www.rrmediagroup.com/News/NewsDetails/newsID/18642

Maryland’s Tilghman Island Receives New FirstNet Site
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

AT&T is adding a site in Tilghman Island, part of Talbot County, Maryland,
as part of its First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) network
expansion.

AT&T said the FirstNet build is underway with direct feedback from state
and public-safety officials in Maryland. The Tilghman Island site is the
second FirstNet site to be publicly announced in Maryland. The site is
located on Tilghman Island Road across from the Tilghman Island Volunteer
Fire Department. An additional new AT&T cell site in the Bozman area is
located near Lostock Lane and Bozman Neavitt Road.

The two new sites were constructed using the FirstNet band 14 spectrum, as
well as other spectrum bands in the AT&T commercial spectrum portfolio.
Band 14 has also been added to existing sites across Maryland. The Talbot
County Department of Emergency Services recently subscribed to FirstNet.

“Our member companies, their employees, our year-round residents and the
thousands of visitors who join us every summer want better mobile broadband
coverage, and that’s what they’ll have thanks to these sites,” said Talbot
County Chamber President Alan Silverstein. “This is great news for our
county.”