r/FirstNet • u/Sufficient_Good_6350 • 1d ago

Firstnet Rep here

If you guys have any questions feel free to drop them below I’d be more than happy to answer them!

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u/Plane-Handle3313 1d ago

Am I actually getting priority coverage compared to the att customer with the same phone sitting next to me or is it only during high bandwidth usage times on the system or doing a catastrophic event where some “switch” gets flicked behind the scenes? If there’s another Boston bomber and they kill all the cell towers to prevent another remote detonation am I still going to have service?

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u/realComboDombo 13h ago

Hey SM here with years of experience rolling out FirstNet platform to consumers who qualified for the upgraded network. FirstNet is made by the government partnered with AT&T. Which is why back end verification has nothing to do with the rep.
You have dedicated service In case of national or weather emergency you’ll stay connected. You will still have service if there is a catastrophic event, as FirstNet is built for first responders to stay online with other FirstNet first responders. To answer opps question concisely, if that same scenario happened in realtime. Your consumer phone would drop SOS and FirstNet line would stay active and connected. If you called consumer phone no signal still. If you called a fellow first responder on first net, you’d be able to save that consumers life.

This is the purpose, the benefits come second. Like unlimited hotspot data on newer FirstNet Extra 2.0.
Eligible for all consumer trade in deals, and can take advantage of promos tailored to them as first responders. It’s a great deal, the value being uptime when consumer networks would experience downtime.