I see #BoostMobile hasn't given up it's highly offensive, gerontophobic commercial.

We'll, they've picked the side against #Seniors.

#Ageism is ugly & hateful.

#Seniors should return the favor & #Boycott Boost.

As in NOW!

Boost Mobile Rolls Out Holiday Savings on 5G Phones, Plans & More

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://cordcuttersnews.com/boost-mobile-rolls-out-holiday-savings-on-5g-phones-plans-more/

Weekly output: AT&T 5G, Meta breakup bid blocked, Mozilla Foundation, social-media usage, Starship and New Glenn

I spent much of the only week in November not disrupted by my own travel schedule catching up on things from the previous two weeks. As you can see from the list below, that was an incomplete exercise.

(Speaking of previous weeks, I also wrote a post for Patreon supporters recapping my experience at Web Summit in Lisbon.)

11/17/2025: AT&T Boosts 5G Speed and Capacity With EchoStar Spectrum, PCMag

Having written in September about Boost Mobile’s plans to sell this spectrum to AT&T, I felt obliged to cover AT&T putting those frequencies into service sooner than I would have imagined possible.

11/19/2025: Court Rejects FTC’s Bid to Break Up Meta, Finds It’s Not a Social Media Monopoly, PCMag

I didn’t span on spending a large chunk of Tuesday afternoon reading a judge’s opinion about the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to order Meta to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. I also didn’t expect to find the judge’s analysis of Facebook so relatable.

11/20/2025: With Its Next Big Thing, Mozilla Wants to Do More Than Improve the Web, PCMag

The interview at the center of this post happened two weeks earlier, so I appreciated the Mozilla Foundation providing some details about early proposals received since then for its AI-for-democracy funding program.

11/20/2025: Among Social Media Users, Reddit Soars As X Stagnates, PCMag

Thursday had no work items on my calendar, so I could cover this new report from the Pew Research Center about which social platforms have earned time on the schedules of Americans.

11/21/2025: SpaceX’s Starship Suffers Major Test Mishap a Day After Blue Origin Unveils Rocket Upgrade Plans, PCMag

I was going to spent Friday writing a post about an information-security conference I attended Tuesday, but then SpaceX had the booster stage of its Starship rocket fail catastrophically in a ground test a day after that company’s increasingly-capable rival Blue Origin outlined some ambitious upgrades to its own New Glenn launch vehicle.

#att5g #blueOrigin #blueskyUsage #boostMobile #facebookInstagram #ftcVMeta #metaBreakup #mozillaFoundation #newGlenn #pewResearchCenter #socialMedia #spacexStarship #starship

Nationwide Boost Mobile Outage Sparks Widespread Frustration, Here is What is Happening

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://cordcuttersnews.com/nationwide-boost-mobile-outage-sparks-widespread-frustration-here-is-what-is-happening/

#boostmobile: get a clue.

The very population you humiliate in your newest ad campaign - retired #Seniors - is the very population most likely to be interested in your El Cheapo mobile phone svc.

You should take that disgusting ad campaign down immediately & hope to stem the damage.

But why anyone would ever subscribe now that you've revealed your xtrmly offensive ethos is beyond me.

Weekly output: Google Translate, Boost Mobile, Starship test flight, T-Mobile’s SuperMobile, FTC eyes Gmail spam filtering

I’m off to Berlin Monday night to cover the IFA tech trade show–but this time, I’m paying my own way. I think I’ve structured my travel expenses and freelance pitches to assure that I make a profit from the coming week.

In addition to what you see below, I wrote a bonus post for Patreon readers Sunday sharing travel tips from my first ride on Amtrak’s NextGen Acela train.

8/26/2025: Google Translate Enlists AI for Live Translation and Language Lessons, PCMag

I may get a chance to try out this feature in the field while I’m in Germany–except that so many locals speak English there.

8/26/2025: Boost Mobile Sells Off Spectrum to AT&T, Ends Its Fourth-Carrier Ambitions, PCMag

This was not on my list of possible stories at the start of the week, but the early coverage of this wireless-industry plot twist made it clear that I had to write up this news.

8/27/2025: On Tenth Test Flight, SpaceX’s Starship Hits Its Marks, PCMag

After two days of having the launch waved off, Tuesday saw the elements line up for SpaceX’s newest test flight of its giant Starship rocket.

8/28/2025: T-Mobile Unwraps ‘SuperMobile,’ a Network-Sliced Business Plan, PCMag

If T-Mobile had announced its new rate plans for business customers on the day it revealed this new option for business customers, this would have been a shorter post.

8/30/2025: FTC Chairman Suggests Gmail Spam Filtering Has It In for GOP Candidates, PCMag

I have to admit to missing this when FTC chair Andrew Ferguson posted this letter Thursday, but after seeing nobody else at PCMag jump on this idea by Friday, I decided to pick it up myself.

#5G #Berlin #BoostMobile #electronics #FTC #Germany #GmailSpamFilters #GoogleTranslate #IFA #SuperMobile #TMobile #tradeShow