AUSTIN–This week started with stories datelined from a city some 4,000 miles east of D.C. and ends with pieces datelined from a city about 1,300 miles southwest of home.

3/4/2024: SpaceX rivals pitch their phone-to-satellite alternatives, Light Reading

I wrote most of this piece recapping an MWC panel featuring multiple non-SpaceX satellite-to-phone services–including my Falls Church neighbors Lynk Global–on the flight home to D.C., then somehow pieced together enough scraps of jet-lagged consciousness to finish and file it Thursday night.

3/5/2024: FWA cheer spreads across the world, Light Reading

My MWC coverage wrapped up with my writing and filing this post about fixed-wireless access Friday afternoon. One thing that continues to be great about this event: how it exposes me to multiple non-U.S. perspectives on wireless-service situations we have here.

3/6/2024: Biden’s Broadband Chief Sounds Alarm on Expiring Affordable-Internet Subsidy, PCMag

This post was going to recap a few different panels at ACA Connects Summit, hosted by a D.C. trade group for smaller Internet providers, and then a publicist for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration asked if I’d like to sit down with NTIA administrator Alan Davidson for a quick conversation after his panel.

3/9/2024: 5G Home Internet Soars in 2023, As Cable and Phone-Based Broadband Slump, PCMag

I wrote up the latest subscriber stats gathered by Leichtman Research Group, showing the continued conquests of fixed-wireless services. Contrary to a prediction I’d offered in a post about a previous LRG broadband update, T-Mobile did not end 2023 as the fifth-biggest ISP because the privately-held cable provider Cox still has a few more hundred thousand subscribers, in LRG’s estimate.

3/9/2024: Actors Union Rep Warns Game Studios Over AI: Odds of Strike Are 50-50, PCMag

I put this panel–featuring my fellow Georgetown grad Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, now SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator–on my SXSW schedule early on because of its intersection of technology, policy and culture.

3/10/2024: Printer Bashing and Staplers: ‘Office Space’ Cast Files a TPS Report at SXSW, PCMag

I quote from Office Space almost as often as any other movie I’ve seen–and that includes the original Star Wars trilogy and Dr. Strangelove–so there was no way I wasn’t going to see this panel. Even if I then had to watch it on SXSW’s YouTube stream because the room in the Austin Convention Center hit capacity while I was still on line to get in.

3/10/2024: Cybersecurity as a Cornerstone of Brand Trust, Grit Daily House

I moderated this panel–featuring Zach Eikenberry, CEO of Hook Security, Jess Garza, owner of Texas Performance Pyschology, and Andy Bennett, CTO, Apollo Information Systems–at an offsite venue for my fellow conference person Jordan French’s startup-industry publication.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/03/11/weekly-output-satellite-to-phone-services-fixed-wireless-access-broadband-buildout-risks-2023-broadband-subscriber-stats-actors-negotiating-for-ai-rights-office-space-reunion-how-companies-talk/

#ACAConnects #actorsStrike #AffordableConnectivityPlan #AlanDavidson #Austin #Barcelona #BEAD #cybersecurity #DuncanCrabtreeIreland #federalBroadbandBuildout #fixedWireless #FWA #informationSecurity #LeichtmanResearchGroup #LynkGlobal #MobileWorldCongress #MWC #OfficeSpace #OneWeb #SAGAFTRA #Sateliot #southBySouthwest #sxsw #VerizonHome5G

AST had big news, but experts differ on how successful the direct "sat-to-phone" market will be (and what to call this service - NTN or "direct to device" etc)

A panel at Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week here offered widely diverging views on how fast the emerging “direct-to-device” market will grow.- from spacenews

#space #SatToPhone #LynkGlobal #ASTMobile
https://spacenews.com/satellite-industry-debates-size-of-direct-to-device-market/