The U.S. Commerce Department’s Inspector General has opened an audit into the federal government’s supervision of a multi-billion dollar contract granted to AT&T Inc, the world’s largest telecommunications company, to build a long-awaited nationwide broadband network for emergency responders. Carol Rice, assistant inspector general for audit and evaluation, said in a memo published on May 3 this year that her office was reviewing how well the department’s First Responder Network Authority, also known as FirstNet, was carrying out its mandate to create and run a new national emergency responders network. …read more
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