Weekly output: Next Big Things in Tech (x3), Starship, T-Satellite, prepaid home wireless broadband

A months-in-the-work project finally reached the publication stage this week, which felt good–if not as good as invoicing for this project. Another high point of this week: spending a chunk of Saturday afternoon at the No Kings demonstration in D.C. and seeing how strong the protest-sign game remains in my city.

10/14/2025: The 5 next big things in space and telecom for 2025, Fast Company

Once again, my work on Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech list (NBTT for short) started with judging entries in the converging industries of space and telecom.

10/14/2025: The 4 next big things in robotics and automation for 2025, Fast Company

This is another category I’ve judged before, but most of the companies I considered this year were new to my work at Fast Co.

10/14/2025: These 4 innovations help solve critical issues for North America, Fast Company

This was a new addition to my NBTT work, and deciding what made companies worthy of this honor in this geographically-defined category got tricky at times.

10/14/2025: Starship’s Version 2 Flies for the Last Time, Splashes Down in One Piece, PCMag

I wrote this recap of Starship’s 11th flight test Monday night and then revised the piece slightly Tuesday morning–hours before SpaceX released video of Starship’s upper stage looking more than a little cooked as it lowered itself into the Indian Ocean.

10/16/2025: Who’s on T-Satellite? T-Mobile Dominates, But Verizon Customers Say No Thanks, PCMag

One surprise of this study from Ookla was how many AT&T subscribers chose to pay $10 a month extra to T-Mobile for Starlink satellite roaming; another was how rarely wireless users now find themselves without a terrestrial signal.

10/17/2025: T-Mobile, Verizon Now Selling 5G Home Internet Service Via Their Prepaid Brands, PCMag

Telecom-industry analyst Jeff Moore e-mailed me about the impending launch of resold Verizon fixed-wireless-access broadband by its Tracfone subsidiary, then T-Mobile’s Mint Mobile subsidiary started reselling its parent firm’s FWA. Moore then gave me some useful insight about the state of prepaid home wireless broadband.

#911inform #AES #EascraBiotech #fixedWireless #Heven #home5G #ImpulseSpace #MintMobile #MobileX #Ookla #OWLIntegrations #PilaEnergy #ProRataAi #ServeRobotics #SpaceXStarship #Starlink #Starship #TMobileStarlink #TSatellite #TracFone #USMobile #Vantor #Varda

Happy Easter! March 31 also happens to be the date that many people observe as the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and because I strive not to be a bigot or a moron I can understand how the Biden administration would uphold the religious holiday that falls on varying dates and also recognize the human-rights-advocacy event with a fixed spot on the calendar (see, also, César Chávez Day) without my head exploding.

In addition to the posts below, Patreon readers got a peek at the traffic metrics that the platform now shares with me (spoiler alert, they show that I could be a lot more effective in promoting my page).

3/25/2024: T-Mobile Customers Get Yet Another Year of Free MLB.tv, PCMag

After almost a decade of covering the spotty availability of home-team baseball on streaming video, I needed very little time to write this post.

3/27/2024: Return-to-Work Is a Bigger Trend in Smaller Cities, Worth

This piece, on the other hand, took weeks to report out as I tried to chase down experts between the holidays and CES–with my last interview not happening until the Tuesday after I got home Vegas. In retrospect, I don’t know how I expected anything different with that kind of deadline.

3/29/2024, Sat-to-phone ambitions may need course corrections, Light Reading

I needed a few days after the previous week’s Satellite Show in D.C. closed to get some time on the phone with analyst Tim Farrar, who lent a skeptical perspective that I found a useful complement to the concerns I saw conference speakers voice at that event.

3/31/2024: These companies are automating dirty and dangerous work, Fast Company

This companion piece to my coverage of robotics firms for Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies package unpacks how many of these enterprises are sending robots to places that might have seemed too dicey for expensive machines a few years ago.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/03/31/weekly-output-t-mobiles-free-mlb-tv-return-to-office-trends-satellite-to-phone-hopes-robots-doing-dirty-and-dangerous-jobs/

#ASTSpaceMobile #Milwaukee #MLBTv #regionalSportsNetworks #returnToOffice #returnToWork #robotics #robots #SatelliteShow #TMobile #TMobileStarlink