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Weekly output: NASA reopens lunar-lander contract, Verizon adds “Lite” home-5G plan

I got out of bed earlier than usual today to go cheer for people who had woken much earlier to go run 26.2 miles, because I see supporting people running the Marine Corps Marathon as a civic duty. Saturday saw me taking on another civic duty: poll-worker training for the 15-plus-hour day I have coming up Nov. 4.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week: an explanation of why it pays for freelancers to know which topics don’t have full-time coverage by a staff writer at a client.

10/21/2025: NASA Reopens Lunar Lander Contract, and Elon Musk Is Big Mad, PCMag

I wasn’t sure that NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy saying that the space agency would seek new bids to build a lunar lander for the first U.S. moon landing since 1972 would amount to a PCMag story. And then Elon went on a rage-tweeting spree about that…

10/23/2025: Verizon Adds Cheaper, Data-Capped ‘Lite’ Wireless Home Broadband Option, PCMag

Verizon is a few years behind T-Mobile in selling a data-capped version of its home fixed-wireless service in areas with limited capacity, but its data cap is much more forgiving than T-Mobile’s.

#ArtemisIII #ElonMuskX #fixedWireless #FWA #HLS #home5G #moonLanding #SeanDuffy #Starship #Verizon5GHome

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

Weekly output: NextGen Acela, Evernote V11, Verizon CEOs, RGB LED, screen time, Cranky Dorkfest, Verizon buys Starry, AT&T standalone 5G, TiVo DVRs

This week will have me crossing a state off my states-visited list for the first time since 2009–Wisconsin, where Oshkosh Corp. is hosting a press day to show off its government and industrial vehicles, including the U.S. Postal Service’s new and behind-schedule duckface trucks. I don’t have a good explanation for why I had not set foot in that state sooner and can only apologize to America’s Dairyland for the extended oversight.

10/6/2025: Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail, Fast Company

After taking the new trains to and from New York at the end of August, I had ambitions of writing this story much faster than I did–sort of like how Amtrak had ambitions of getting the new train into service much sooner than it did. But getting the level of detail that I wanted about the railroad’s plans to upgrade the power infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor took more time than I expected.

(I included the full text of Amtrak’s detailed explanation of its plans to improve the catenary along the NEC in the commentary-enhanced version of this post that I published early on Patreon.)

10/6/2025: Major Evernote Update Taps AI for Search and Transcription, But Not Writing, PCMag

I had about an hour Friday to quiz Evernote product lead Federico Simionato about Bending Spoons’ plans for the note-taking app that it bought in 2023, and which I’ve used since 2010–so of course I took notes in my Mac’s copy of Evernote while using the Android app to record our conversation for subsequent AI transcription.

10/6/2025: Verizon Hot-Swaps Current CEO for Ex-PayPal Boss, PCMag

I don’t usually cover C-suite departures and arrivals, but I had some free time. And Verizon’s new chief executive Dan Schulman has a sufficiently interesting backstory–see the New York Times’ interview of him in 2008–that I told my editors I could pick up this item.

10/7/2025: RGB LED Is Getting Its Time in the Spotlight. Will TV Shoppers Tune In?, PCMag

I started writing this post at IFA–the first version had a Berlin dateline. But then I got sufficiently sidetracked and got in enough reporting after that tech trade show for the piece to evolve from an event recap to a broader assessment of a tech development.

10/8/2025: It’s Not Just You: Parents Everywhere Struggle to Set Screen-Time Boundaries, PCMag

Pew’s data about the level of technology use respondents to its survey allowed among kids 12 years old or younger made me feel slightly better about my own attempts at digital parenting.

10/8/2025: What happens when online plane enthusiasts meet up IRL?, Fast Company

This recap of Cranky Dorkfest 2025 was easily the most fun that I’ve had with a story since the last time I went to Florida to see a space launch.

10/8/2025: Verizon to Buy Wireless Broadband Pioneer Starry, Fold It Into Its Home Internet Service, PCMag

Writing this sent me back a ways–both to writing about Starry in its early days, including a December 2017 feature for Yahoo Finance, but also to covering Starry founder Chet Kanojia’s previous venture, the local-TV-streaming service Aereo that the Supreme Court put out of business in a dubious 2014 opinion.

10/9/2025: AT&T Switches on Standalone 5G Nationwide, Unlocking Future Network Slice Services, PCMag

This post also covers Verizon’s advances in standalone 5G, about which that carrier has been quieter than AT&T and T-Mobile.

10/9/2025: Time’s Up for a Timeshifting Trailblazer: TiVo Discontinues Its Standalone DVRs, PCMag

I would have written this much faster if I didn’t get sucked down a rabbit hole of old TiVo posts and reviews, followed by my checking my own TiVo purchase history.

#Acela #Amtrak #ATT5G #avgeek #BendingSpoons #CrankyDorkfest #DanSchulman #digitalParenting #Evernote #fixedWireless #fixedWirelessBroadband #highSpeedRail #IFA #LAX #NEC #NextGenAcela #NortheastCorridor #PewResearchCenter #RGBLED #screenTime #Sony #standalone5G #StarryInternet #Verizon5G #VerizonCEO

Weekly output: Zipline drones, fixed wireless broadband, AI transformations, Dashlane, AI fairness, FCC resignations, AI resiliency, National Capital Radio & Television MuseumM

My third week in a row of business travel had me in Santa Clara, Calif., from Tuesday through Friday–at a venue I’d last set foot in at the Demo conference in 2013.

6/3/2025: Inside Zipline’s high-tech drone factory where delivery innovation takes flight, Fast Company

My decision to book an early-afternon flight from SFO to National at the end of my Google I/O trip last month paid off when I used that time to visit the drone-delivery startup Zipline’s factory in South San Francisco. I followed up that visit by quizzing an executive from the firm a week later.

6/3/2025: Fiber Is Fast, But 5G Home Internet Is More Appealing for One Reason, PCMag

I didn’t want to write up this J.D. Power customer-satisfaction survey without getting some answers about the weirdly-high scores for old, slow digital-subscriber-line services.

6/4/2025: Transforming Industries with AI & Big Data—Success Stories from the Frontlines, TechEx North America

The first of three panels I did at this conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center (with the organizers covering my lodging and reimbursing my airfare) reunited me with a fellow panelist from 2021: Lufthansa Industry Solutions’ Stanislaw Schmal, who was on a panel I did at my first post-pandemic conference trip in September of 2021. It was a treat to have Stan on stage again, and he and my other panelists–Oracle’s Shasank Chavan, Ford Credit’s Manav Khatri, Airbnb’s Dror Engel, and Deepgram’s Kris Efland–made my panel-moderation work easy.

6/5/2025: This Password Manager Now Lets You Create an Account Without a Password, PCMag

Dashlane gave me an embargoed copy of their announcement of their new option to let people create accounts secured only by USB security keys, but that left me a little fuzzy about how exactly this would differ from that password-manager service’s existing support for passwordless authentication–and my editor was fine with holding the post until I could get those details cleared up.

6/5/2025: AI Fairness and Bias Mitigation—Advanced Approaches, TechEx North America

My second panel had me quizzing JPMorgan Chase’s Naresh Dulam, Aon’s Aras “Russ” Memisyazici, and PwC’s Ilana Golbin Blumenfeld about how to avoid having AI systems amplify human biases.

6/5/2025: Who’s Running the FCC? Surprise Resignation Reduces the Agency to a Duo, PCMag

I’ve been writing about the Federal Communications Commission for well over two decades, probably closer to three, and I can’t remember a commissioner announcing a resignation on a Wednesday effective on Friday of the same week. Also unprecedented: having this five-member commission reduced to two people.

6/5/2025: Building Resilient AI Infrastructure, TechEx North America

My last panel at TechEx was a late addition when another moderator dropped out; when an event paying your travel asks for you to pitch in, it’s a good idea to be a team player. My teammates on this panel: Ford Motor Company’s Robert Gray, Oracle’s Iman Zadeh, Red Hat’s Mark Kurtz and InfoVia’s Mike Magalsky.

6/6/2025: Spotify Takes Flight on United Airlines: Here’s What You Get, PCMag

When I got to try this on my flight from San Jose to Houston Friday, I realized that United’s implementation of Spotify did not include the ability to listen to the airline’s longtime theme song, “Rhapsody in Blue”–which made the lede I’d written incorrect. Instead of just rewriting that, I opted to take notes on the experience over that three-plus hour flight and rewrite the entire post.

6/7/2025: This Little Museum Outside DC Offers a Deep Dive Into Retro Radio and TV Tech, PCMag

My friend and longtime CES fellow traveler Gary Arlen suggested that I visit the National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Md., where he’s a docent, and I took him up on that advice in February. Then I didn’t write the post until March, after which my client needed a little longer to get the story edited and published.

#AI #artificialIntelligence #conference #Dashlane #droneDelivery #DSL #FCC #FIDO2 #fixedWireless #JDPower #NationalCapitalRadioTelevisionMuseum #passwordManager #SantaClara #Spotify #techHistory #TechExNorthAmerica #UA #UnitedAirlines #vacuumTubes #vintage #Zipline

Anyone out there using Xplore 5G for their internet and also know the admin/operator credentials for the CPE? I was hoping to check my signal strength and maybe adjust the device orientation. I still have the credentials stowed away for Xplornet's devices from years back but I haven't been able to guess the new ones.

Out of date: https://technicallyrural.ca/2020/05/30/xplornet-modem-default-credentials/

#Xplore #FixedWireless #5G

Thanks for the mention in the takeaways from #FTTHConference 2025 organized by FTTH Council Europe and supported by aconium GmbH, Jon Ingi Ingimundarson & #Ljósleiðarinn!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ftth-conference-2025-reflections-fiber-wireless-ingimundarson-o0xle/

#FTTH #fiber #ISP #WISP #FISP #FixedWirelessAccess #FWA #WiFi #latency #bufferbloat #jitter #LibreQoS #QoE #QualityOfService #QoS #OpenSource #FLOSS
#InternetServiceProvider #FixedWireless #FTTX #RFC8290 #sch_CAKE
#FTTH25 #FTTHConference2025 #schCAKE #FQ_CoDel #FQCoDel

#LibreQoS is one of the selected proposals eligible to receive a grant from @nlnet in the April 2024 NGI Zero Core call:
https://nlnet.nl/project/LibreQoS-2.1/

Thanks a lot, #NLnet!

#OpenSource #QualityOfExperience #FLOSS #QoE #broadband #ISP #FISP #WISP #FWA #InternetServiceProvider #QoS #FixedWirelessAccess #schCAKE #WirelessBroadband #FixedWireless #FTTH #FTTX #sch_CAKE #FiberInternet #latency #bufferbloat #jitter

I had an unusually space-centric news week, which led me to think anew about when I could next get on a plane to Florida (or Texas) to see a large rocket launch in person instead of on a screen.

6/4/2024: Sorry, Cable: Fiber and 5G Home Internet Win the ISP Popularity Contest, PCMag

A year after the American Customer Satisfaction Index documented a dramatic gap in subscriber approval of fiber broadband compared to cable, a new ACSI survey found that people using fixed-wireless Internet also voiced more contentment with their connectivity than cable users.

6/5/2024: Boeing’s Starliner Finally Launches With Astronauts Onboard, PCMag

This post would have been shorter if Starliner’s first crewed launch had happened last month as originally scheduled, but each delay gave me an excuse to write a little more background about this launch, NASA’s commercial crew program and the history of Atlas rockets.

6/6/2024: T-Mobile’s Home Internet Backup Plan Kicks in When Your Broadband Goes Out, PCMag

After I filed my recap of T-Mobile’s announcement–which also covered a new Opensignal report about the rise of fixed wireless–I read Jon Brodkin’s report at Ars Technica and realized he’d unearthed an important issue with the carrier’s pitch. So I sent in an update to my editor from my phone while on line to get my first in a series of small plates at the NOAA Sustainable Seafood Celebration.

6/6/2024: On Fourth Launch, SpaceX’s Starship Sticks the Landing, PCMag

I wrote a second post about a pioneering rocket launch this week. I’m still amazed that Starship’s second stage made it all the way to the Indian Ocean after I watched one of its fins start to disintegrate from reentry heating live on camera.

6/8/2024: Ep 100 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple WWDC 24 guesses, fixed wireless access and broadband trends, Mark Vena

With our usual podcast companion John Quain out on a work trip, the Houston Chronicle’s Dwight Silverman joined us in his place.

6/9/2024: Why the US Falls Short on Easy, Cheap Cross-Border Money Transfers, PCMag

I started gathering string for this story back in February when I traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania to moderate a panel at a financial-technology conference there and get an introduction to the country’s fintech sector (with local hosts covering most of my travel expenses). Then I had to quiz an industry analyst, after which watching a panel at Web Summit Rio gave me another angle to look into.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/06/09/weekly-output-broadband-satisfaction-starliner-starship-t-mobile-fixed-wireless-mark-vena-podcast-international-money-transfers/

#ACSI #Bitcoin #Boeing #broadband #BTC #cryptocurrency #CST100 #DwightSilverman #fixedWireless #FWA #KYC #PayPal #SpaceX #SpaceXStarship #Starliner #Starship #SWIFT #TMobileHomeBackup #TransferGo #Wise