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

docomo home5G HR02を入手したのでPoE電源化して予備回線にする。
docomo home5G HR02

ハードオフで5000円そこそこで転がっていたので入手。

docomohome5Gの名称ですが

SIMフリーの5G据え置きルータなので

他キャリアでも利用可能で

楽天モバイルでの利用例が多いようです。

LANコネクタが2.5Gbps用意されているのも何かと強い。

home 5G HR02のスペック・性能｜AQUOS：シャープ

対応バンド＊3

5G NR（sub6）：n28 / n78 / n79
4G LTE（FDD-LTE）：B1 / B3 / B19 / B21
4G LTE（TD-LTE）：B42

 
SoftbankAirをAP化してPoEで
https://satoweb.net/2025/05/docomohome5g/
# #Docomo #home5G

After clocking 17 days in a row of work–thanks to the run-up to CES, CES itself, and then needing to catch up on projects set aside during that week in Vegas–I ditched professional obligations Monday to go skiing. And then I answered some business e-mails from the chairlift anyway.

1/23/2024: T-Mobile Plans to Deprioritize ‘Heavy Data’ Users of Its Home 5G, PCMag

Once again, Reddit enlightened me about a plot twist at a company I cover–this time, in the form of a post on r/tmobile pointing to a report of T-Mobile stepping slightly away from offering unlimited data on its fixed-wireless service. I e-mailed the company for comment Monday night, got a reply hours later and wrote this post Tuesday morning.

1/24/2024: Connected-car ambitions risk collision with regulators’ concerns, Light Reading

This post closed out my CES 2024 coverage, and I had planned to write it sooner. But after a few days of being in the weeds with other deadlines, I realized that the Washington Auto Show’s public-policy day would probably yield useful quotes from policymakers about the privacy implications of the connected-car tech that I’d seen hyped at CES. Fortunately, my editor agreed with my suggestion that I hold off on filing this post so I could fold in that later reporting.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/01/28/weekly-output-t-mobile-fixed-wireless-gets-a-little-less-generous-connected-car-concerns/

#AWSAutomotive #ces #connectedCars #fixedWireless #home5G #Qualcomm #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #WashingtonAutoShow