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Oregon, Washington State Opt In to FirstNet

Oregon and Washington state will opt in to FirstNet, Democratic Govs. Kate Brown and Jay Inslee said Tuesday. The northwestern states held a joint request for proposal seeking alternatives, but a key reason to select AT&T “was their commitment, as…

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a result of the competitive process, to provide additional tower investments in both states,” the Inslee office said in a news release. That makes 47 of 56 states and territories to opt in before the Thursday deadline. New Hampshire is the only state to say it would opt out, but opt-in arguments for that state haven’t subsided (see 1712200043).