#fixedwirelessaccess — Public Fediverse posts

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Visible’s prepaid Verizon home 5G, Uber’s travel ambitions, AT&T emergency response

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate! Which should be all who don’t want to accept the lies of people in power.

I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Wednesday explaining three fair ways that you can take one story idea and sell it more than once.

4/28/2026: Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink, PCMag

This was going to be a straightforward writeup of Ookla’s report about Speedtest measurements of inflight connectivity, but some details seemed just off enough to require follow-up questions.

4/29/2026: Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Adds $300-Per-Year 5G Home Broadband, PCMag

This was going to be a a straightforward writeup of Verizon’s prepaid brand reselling Verizon’s fixed-wireless home broadband at a discount, but then I couldn’t get Visible’s site to show me the FCC-mandated broadband-facts label or even let me start a service order.

5/1/2026: Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next, PCMag

I took a day trip to New York Wednesday to cover Uber’s Go-Get press event. This Amtrak run was not like any of the others I’ve taken earlier between D.C. and NYC because it featured infrastructure that hadn’t been first built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 90-plus years ago: the new Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands, which is replacing a janky old drawbridge that sometimes gets stuck open.

5/1/2026: For AT&T, Disaster Recovery Includes Flying COWs and a Robot Dog, PCMag

I spent a couple of hours in one of the parking lots next to the former site of RFK Stadium–it’s still weird to see nothing where that concrete donut had stood since 1961–to check out the exhibit of emergency-response hardware that AT&T had set up there.

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Visible’s prepaid Verizon home 5G, Uber’s travel ambitions, AT&T emergency response

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate! Which should be all who don’t want to accept the lies of people in power.

I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Wednesday explaining three fair ways that you can take one story idea and sell it more than once.

4/28/2026: Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink, PCMag

This was going to be a straightforward writeup of Ookla’s report about Speedtest measurements of inflight connectivity, but some details seemed just off enough to require follow-up questions.

4/29/2026: Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Adds $300-Per-Year 5G Home Broadband, PCMag

This was going to be a a straightforward writeup of Verizon’s prepaid brand reselling Verizon’s fixed-wireless home broadband at a discount, but then I couldn’t get Visible’s site to show me the FCC-mandated broadband-facts label or even let me start a service order.

5/1/2026: Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next, PCMag

I took a day trip to New York Wednesday to cover Uber’s Go-Get press event. This Amtrak run was not like any of the others I’ve taken earlier between D.C. and NYC because it featured infrastructure that hadn’t been first built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 90-plus years ago: the new Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands, which is replacing a janky old drawbridge that sometimes gets stuck open.

5/1/2026: For AT&T, Disaster Recovery Includes Flying COWs and a Robot Dog, PCMag

I spent a couple of hours in one of the parking lots next to the former site of RFK Stadium–it’s still weird to see nothing where that concrete donut had stood since 1961–to check out the exhibit of emergency-response hardware that AT&T had set up there.

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Visible’s prepaid Verizon home 5G, Uber’s travel ambitions, AT&T emergency response

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate! Which should be all who don’t want to accept the lies of people in power.

I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Wednesday explaining three fair ways that you can take one story idea and sell it more than once.

4/28/2026: Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink, PCMag

This was going to be a straightforward writeup of Ookla’s report about Speedtest measurements of inflight connectivity, but some details seemed just off enough to require follow-up questions.

4/29/2026: Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Adds $300-Per-Year 5G Home Broadband, PCMag

This was going to be a a straightforward writeup of Verizon’s prepaid brand reselling Verizon’s fixed-wireless home broadband at a discount, but then I couldn’t get Visible’s site to show me the FCC-mandated broadband-facts label or even let me start a service order.

5/1/2026: Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next, PCMag

I took a day trip to New York Wednesday to cover Uber’s Go-Get press event. This Amtrak run was not like any of the others I’ve taken earlier between D.C. and NYC because it featured infrastructure that hadn’t been first built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 90-plus years ago: the new Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands, which is replacing a janky old drawbridge that sometimes gets stuck open.

5/1/2026: For AT&T, Disaster Recovery Includes Flying COWs and a Robot Dog, PCMag

I spent a couple of hours in one of the parking lots next to the former site of RFK Stadium–it’s still weird to see nothing where that concrete donut had stood since 1961–to check out the exhibit of emergency-response hardware that AT&T had set up there.

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Visible’s prepaid Verizon home 5G, Uber’s travel ambitions, AT&T emergency response

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate! Which should be all who don’t want to accept the lies of people in power.

I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Wednesday explaining three fair ways that you can take one story idea and sell it more than once.

4/28/2026: Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink, PCMag

This was going to be a straightforward writeup of Ookla’s report about Speedtest measurements of inflight connectivity, but some details seemed just off enough to require follow-up questions.

4/29/2026: Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Adds $300-Per-Year 5G Home Broadband, PCMag

This was going to be a a straightforward writeup of Verizon’s prepaid brand reselling Verizon’s fixed-wireless home broadband at a discount, but then I couldn’t get Visible’s site to show me the FCC-mandated broadband-facts label or even let me start a service order.

5/1/2026: Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next, PCMag

I took a day trip to New York Wednesday to cover Uber’s Go-Get press event. This Amtrak run was not like any of the others I’ve taken earlier between D.C. and NYC because it featured infrastructure that hadn’t been first built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 90-plus years ago: the new Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands, which is replacing a janky old drawbridge that sometimes gets stuck open.

5/1/2026: For AT&T, Disaster Recovery Includes Flying COWs and a Robot Dog, PCMag

I spent a couple of hours in one of the parking lots next to the former site of RFK Stadium–it’s still weird to see nothing where that concrete donut had stood since 1961–to check out the exhibit of emergency-response hardware that AT&T had set up there.

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Visible’s prepaid Verizon home 5G, Uber’s travel ambitions, AT&T emergency response

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate! Which should be all who don’t want to accept the lies of people in power.

I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Wednesday explaining three fair ways that you can take one story idea and sell it more than once.

4/28/2026: Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink, PCMag

This was going to be a straightforward writeup of Ookla’s report about Speedtest measurements of inflight connectivity, but some details seemed just off enough to require follow-up questions.

4/29/2026: Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Adds $300-Per-Year 5G Home Broadband, PCMag

This was going to be a a straightforward writeup of Verizon’s prepaid brand reselling Verizon’s fixed-wireless home broadband at a discount, but then I couldn’t get Visible’s site to show me the FCC-mandated broadband-facts label or even let me start a service order.

5/1/2026: Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next, PCMag

I took a day trip to New York Wednesday to cover Uber’s Go-Get press event. This Amtrak run was not like any of the others I’ve taken earlier between D.C. and NYC because it featured infrastructure that hadn’t been first built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 90-plus years ago: the new Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands, which is replacing a janky old drawbridge that sometimes gets stuck open.

5/1/2026: For AT&T, Disaster Recovery Includes Flying COWs and a Robot Dog, PCMag

I spent a couple of hours in one of the parking lots next to the former site of RFK Stadium–it’s still weird to see nothing where that concrete donut had stood since 1961–to check out the exhibit of emergency-response hardware that AT&T had set up there.

Base Station Antenna Market in France | Report – IndexBox

France Base Station Antenna Market 2026 Analysis and Forecast to 2035 Executive Summary Key Findings The France base…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #BaseStationAntenna #Beamforming #electronicsmarketreport #FixedWirelessAccess(FWA)hubs #forecast #In-buildingwirelesscoverage #marketanalysis #MassiveMIMO #Multi-band/Widebanddesign #PrivateLTE/5Gnetworks #PublicMobileNetworkRAN #RemoteElectricalTilt(RET)
https://www.europesays.com/france/11247/

5G Devices Market in Poland | Report – IndexBox https://www.byteseu.com/1983299/ #5GDevices #5GModem&ApplicationProcessorIntegration #5GNR(Sub6GHz&MmWave) #AntennaDesign(MIMO #Beamforming) #ElectronicsMarketReport #EnhancedMobileBroadband(eMBB) #FixedWirelessAccess(FWA)ForBroadband #forecast #MarketAnalysis #MassiveMachineTypeCommunications(mMTC)ForIoT #Poland #RFFrontEndModules(FEMs) #UltraReliableLowLatencyCommunications(URLLC)ForIndustrial

5G Devices Market in Poland | Report – IndexBox

This re…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #5GDevices #5GModem&ApplicationProcessorIntegration #5GNR(Sub-6GHz&mmWave) #AntennaDesign(MIMO #Beamforming) #electronicsmarketreport #EnhancedMobileBroadband(eMBB) #FixedWirelessAccess(FWA)forbroadband #forecast #marketanalysis #MassiveMachine-TypeCommunications(mMTC)forIoT #RFFront-EndModules(FEMs) #Ultra-ReliableLow-LatencyCommunications(URLLC)forindustrial
https://www.europesays.com/poland/4527/

Three Sweden launches first 5G SA in the country, with network slicing

Ericsson supplied the tech in the RAN and cloud-native core Three Sweden announced the commercial launch 5G Standalone…
#Sweden #Sverige #SE #Europe #Europa #EU #5GStandalone #Ericsson #fixedwirelessaccess #Nokia #nyheter #sweden #ThreeSweden
https://www.europesays.com/2714831/

Three Sweden launches first 5G SA in the country, with network slicing https://www.byteseu.com/1726794/ #5GStandalone #Ericsson #FixedWirelessAccess #Nokia #Sweden #ThreeSweden

T-Mobile Poland mobile data highlights FWA bind

The Polish operator’s streaming data emphasises the dominance of router-based streaming which reflects the issue mobile operators rolling…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #5Gandbeyond #Aktualności #broadband #Fixedwirelessaccess(FWA) #Networkinfrastructure #poland #polska #streamingservices #T-MobilePoland #T-MobilePolska
https://www.europesays.com/2610998/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/429873/ DigitalC Announces $500,000 In-Kind Donation from Google Fiber to Bring More Affordable Internet to Ohio #Cleveland #DigitalDivide #DigitalC #FixedWirelessAccess #GoogleFiber #Internet #InternetExperience #InternetService #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

DigitalC Announces $500,000 In-Kind Donation from Google Fiber to Bring More Affordable Internet to Ohio

Google Fiber CLEVELAND, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DigitalC today announced a $500,000 in-kind donation of cutting-edge…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #Cleveland #digitaldivide #DigitalC #FixedWirelessAccess #googlefiber #internetexperience #internetservice #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/161695/

DigitalC Announces $500,000 In-Kind Donation from Google Fiber to Bring More Affordable Internet to Ohio

Google Fiber CLEVELAND, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DigitalC today announced a $500,000 in-kind donation of cutting-edge…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #Cleveland #digitaldivide #DigitalC #FixedWirelessAccess #googlefiber #internetexperience #internetservice #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/161695/

DigitalC Announces $500,000 In-Kind Donation from Google Fiber to Bring More Affordable Internet to Ohio

Google Fiber CLEVELAND, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DigitalC today announced a $500,000 in-kind donation of cutting-edge…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet #CA #Canada #Cleveland #DigitalDivide #DigitalC #FixedWirelessAccess #googlefiber #internetexperience #internetservice #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/148569/

Jio Claims Its UBR-Based Technology Is Better Than Fiber Due to Multiple Advantages

Reliance Jio has asserted that its Unlicensed Band Radio (UBR)-based home internet service offers significant advantages over traditional…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #AI #FixedWirelessAccess #Jio5G #JioAirFiber #JioBroadband #JioUBR #RelianceJio #Technology #UnlicensedBandRadio
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/73032/

Jio Claims Its UBR-Based Technology Is Better Than Fiber Due to Multiple Advantages

Reliance Jio has asserted that its Unlicensed Band Radio (UBR)-based home internet service offers significant advantages over traditional…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #AI #FixedWirelessAccess #Jio5G #JioAirFiber #JioBroadband #JioUBR #RelianceJio #Technology #UnlicensedBandRadio
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/73032/

Jio Claims Its UBR-Based Technology Is Better Than Fiber Due to Multiple Advantages

Reliance Jio has asserted that its Unlicensed Band Radio (UBR)-based home internet service offers significant advantages over traditional…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet #AI #AU #Australia #FixedWirelessAccess #Jio5G #JioAirFiber #JioBroadband #JioUBR #RelianceJio #Technology #UnlicensedBandRadio
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/58254/

Jio Claims Its UBR-Based Technology Is Better Than Fiber Due to Multiple Advantages

Reliance Jio has asserted that its Unlicensed Band Radio (UBR)-based home internet service offers significant advantages over traditional…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet #AI #CA #Canada #FixedWirelessAccess #Jio5G #JioAirFiber #JioBroadband #JioUBR #RelianceJio #Technology #UnlicensedBandRadio
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/59741/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/333818/ Jio Claims Its UBR-Based Technology Is Better Than Fiber Due to Multiple Advantages #AI #FixedWirelessAccess #Internet #Jio5G #JioAirFiber #JioBroadband #JioUBR #RelianceJio #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnlicensedBandRadio

Jio Claims Its UBR-Based Technology Is Better Than Fiber Due to Multiple Advantages

Reliance Jio has asserted that its Unlicensed Band Radio (UBR)-based home internet service offers significant advantages over traditional…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet #AI #FixedWirelessAccess #Jio5G #JioAirFiber #JioBroadband #JioUBR #RelianceJio #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnlicensedBandRadio
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/57516/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/215731/ India’s wired and wireless home internet market to touch $16.5 billion in 5 years: Report #AxisCapital #BhartiAirtel #BroadbandSubscriptionsGrowth #FiberBroadbandMarketIndia #FixedWirelessAccess #GlobalDataReport #HighSpeedInternetIndia #IndiaFixedCommunicationServicesRevenue #Internet #JioBroadbandServices #Technology #TelecomIndustryGrowth #UK #UnitedKingdom #WiredBroadbandGrowth

This year’s business travel is in the books for me: With my return from Web Summit in Lisbon Friday, the rest of 2023 has no more out-of-town conference badges or hotel keys left. That’s pretty exciting, even if CES looms seven weeks away.

11/13/2023: T-Mobile Within Striking Distance of Becoming Fifth-Largest US ISP, PCMag

The way 5G has brought choice and competition to millions of American homes remains an underappreciated story in telecom.

11/14/2023: Is big tech killing trust?, Web Summit

I interviewed Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker and University of California at Irvine professor Veena Dubal about ways that people might reclaim some leverage against tech giants. Our conversation had some hiccups, in the form of acoustics that Whittaker said made it difficult for her to hear me–even while I could hear her mostly fine.

11/14/2023: Strike Up the Bands: White House National Spectrum Strategy Light on Mobile Details, PCMag

I stayed up late Monday to file this post unpacking the long-awaited release of the White House’s spectrum-policy roadmap–and explaining how some of the spectrum bands covered in the document seem unlikely to boost bandwidth to any phones or homes.

11/15/2023: Mozilla: Friends Don’t Get Friends These Tech Gifts, PCMag

I was going to write up the release of the 2023 edition of Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” anti-gift guide based on an advance look at the press release about it, then saw enough questions unanswered by that embargoed release that I decided to wait until the next morning to file. And then this nonprofit’s post announcing the guide had very little in common with the copy I’d seen before.

11/16/2023: Audience with a robot: AGI and a decentralised beneficial Singularity, Web Summit

My first panel Thursday had me interviewing one human, SingularityNet COO Janet Adams, and one non-human, that company’s talking, AI-powered robot Desdemona. I decided to test the robot’s conversational skills by asking her questions based on the Three Laws of Robotics and the Voight-Kampff Test, and she fielded them reasonably well.

11/16/2023: Raising money for robots, Web Summit

In my second panel Thursday, I interviewed Energy Robotics CEO Marc Dassler about the investment climate for robotics startups. We had fewer people show up to watch this, which I think has a great deal to do with this panel being scheduled right before a lunch break.

11/17/2023: Why Qualcomm Wants to Keep More of Your AI Offline, PCMag

I sat down with Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire Wednesday after watching one of his panels, then turned my notes from that interview into this post.

11/18/2023: Starship’s Second Flight Test Burns Bright But Not Quite Long Enough, PCMag

I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters report documenting some fairly gruesome workplace-safety issues with Starship.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/19/weekly-output-wireless-broadband-rises-tech-vs-trust-national-spectrum-strategy-mozilla-non-gift-guide-ai-meets-robotics-robotics-startup-fundraising-qualcomms-on-device-ai-pitch-starship-f/

#BigTech #Desdemona #EnergyRobotics #fixedWirelessAccess #giftGuide #Lisbon #NationalSpectrumStrategy #onDeviceAI #PrivacyNotIncluded #Qualcomm #roboticsStartups #SingularityNet #SpaceX #spectrumBands #Starship #TMobileHome5G #techlash #Verizon5GHome #WebSummit

This year’s business travel is in the books for me: With my return from Web Summit in Lisbon Friday, the rest of 2023 has no more out-of-town conference badges or hotel keys left. That’s pretty exciting, even if CES looms seven weeks away.

11/13/2023: T-Mobile Within Striking Distance of Becoming Fifth-Largest US ISP, PCMag

The way 5G has brought choice and competition to millions of American homes remains an underappreciated story in telecom.

11/14/2023: Is big tech killing trust?, Web Summit

I interviewed Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker and University of California at Irvine professor Veena Dubal about ways that people might reclaim some leverage against tech giants. Our conversation had some hiccups, in the form of acoustics that Whittaker said made it difficult for her to hear me–even while I could hear her mostly fine.

11/14/2023: Strike Up the Bands: White House National Spectrum Strategy Light on Mobile Details, PCMag

I stayed up late Monday to file this post unpacking the long-awaited release of the White House’s spectrum-policy roadmap–and explaining how some of the spectrum bands covered in the document seem unlikely to boost bandwidth to any phones or homes.

11/15/2023: Mozilla: Friends Don’t Get Friends These Tech Gifts, PCMag

I was going to write up the release of the 2023 edition of Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” anti-gift guide based on an advance look at the press release about it, then saw enough questions unanswered by that embargoed release that I decided to wait until the next morning to file. And then this nonprofit’s post announcing the guide had very little in common with the copy I’d seen before.

11/16/2023: Audience with a robot: AGI and a decentralised beneficial Singularity, Web Summit

My first panel Thursday had me interviewing one human, SingularityNet COO Janet Adams, and one non-human, that company’s talking, AI-powered robot Desdemona. I decided to test the robot’s conversational skills by asking her questions based on the Three Laws of Robotics and the Voight-Kampff Test, and she fielded them reasonably well.

11/16/2023: Raising money for robots, Web Summit

In my second panel Thursday, I interviewed Energy Robotics CEO Marc Dassler about the investment climate for robotics startups. We had fewer people show up to watch this, which I think has a great deal to do with this panel being scheduled right before a lunch break.

11/17/2023: Why Qualcomm Wants to Keep More of Your AI Offline, PCMag

I sat down with Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire Wednesday after watching one of his panels, then turned my notes from that interview into this post.

11/18/2023: Starship’s Second Flight Test Burns Bright But Not Quite Long Enough, PCMag

I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters report documenting some fairly gruesome workplace-safety issues with Starship.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/19/weekly-output-wireless-broadband-rises-tech-vs-trust-national-spectrum-strategy-mozilla-non-gift-guide-ai-meets-robotics-robotics-startup-fundraising-qualcomms-on-device-ai-pitch-starship-f/

#BigTech #Desdemona #EnergyRobotics #fixedWirelessAccess #giftGuide #Lisbon #NationalSpectrumStrategy #onDeviceAI #PrivacyNotIncluded #Qualcomm #roboticsStartups #SingularityNet #SpaceX #spectrumBands #Starship #TMobileHome5G #techlash #Verizon5GHome #WebSummit

This week took me to Atlanta and back to moderate two panels at the Competitive Carriers Association’s conference there, with that group of regional wireless carriers picking up my airfare and lodging. This trip also yielded my first Atlanta dateline since a 1998 Washington Post recap of the Electronic Entertainment Expo and added a new transit stored-value card to my collection.

10/16/2023: Startup Tackles Wireless Dead Zones With Balloons, Blockchain, and Cash Payouts, PCMag

After I had closed out my reporting at MWC Las Vegas last month by interviewing two World Mobile executives on the show floor there, fact-checking and actually writing the piece ate up another two weeks.

10/17/2023: IRS Will Offer Free (But Limited) Direct E-Filing Next Year, PCMag

I’ve spent years objecting to Intuit’s rent-seeking strategy of getting governments to cede the tax-prep market to the commercial sector–see, for instance, this 2014 Yahoo Tech column. So I will admit that I wrote this report about the Internal Revenue Service launching a pilot program for direct online tax filing with a certain amount of glee. Intuit PR was apparently not nearly as pleased to read it, leading to the bitter statement that we appended to the post after publication.

10/18/2023: Mozilla ‘Creep-O-Meter’ Gauges the State of Online Privacy: Here’s Where We Stand, PCMag

I got an advance copy of this announcement from Mozilla PR, allowing me to finish and file this Tuesday afternoon in the same temporary working space I’d used to write the IRS post on arriving in Atlanta: the United Club in ATL’s T concourse.

10/18/2023: FierceWireless Keynote Panel: You’ve Built 5G. Now Put It Into
Action, CCA Annual Convention

My first CCA panel had executives with four regional carriers–Darlene Howell of Appalachian Wireless, Slayton Stewart of Carolina West Wireless, and Adriana Rios Welton at UScellular–as well as Ericsson North America’s Surya Bommakanti talking about ways that smaller wireless firms could monetize 5G’s potential beyond getting individual customers to sign up for new wireless plans.

10/18/2023: Smaller carriers talk bigger 5G ambitions, with FWA first, Fierce Wireless

That afternoon, I wrote a recap of my own panel. I had recorded audio of it from my phone, but my attempt to outsource some of the work by having Otter transcribe that recording may have taken more time than I would have needed to play back the YouTube clip at 1.25x speed while typing only the meaningful quotes.

10/19/2023: Developing a Complete eSIM Strategy, CCA Annual Convention

This conversation with three experts in eSIM deployment–Chris Jahr, RiPSIM Technologies; John Myhre, GCI; and Randy Van Buren, Nokia–became an acoustic performance when we learned that the microphones had somehow stopped working. Fortunately, the meeting room we occupied was compact enough for our unamplified voices to suffice.

10/19/2023: Dashlane Diminishes Free Password-Manager Tier, PCMag

I learned about this downgrade of Dashlane’s free tier from an e-mail notice sent to customers Thursday morning–which I received because I had opened a Dashlane account for fact-checking purposes a couple of years ago. I then had two hours between CCA panels to write this post and get lunch, and for once I wrote fast enough to leave myself 55 minutes to eat.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/10/22/weekly-output-world-mobile-irs-direct-file-mozilla-creep-o-meter-5g-ambitions-at-small-carriers-x2-esim-strategies-dashlane/

#5GBroadband #Atlanta #CCA #CompetitiveCarriersAssociation #Dashlane #digitalPrivacy #eFileTaxes #fixedWirelessAccess #FWA #Intuit #IRSDirectFile #Mozilla #passwordManagers

This week took me to Atlanta and back to moderate two panels at the Competitive Carriers Association’s conference there, with that group of regional wireless carriers picking up my airfare and lodging. This trip also yielded my first Atlanta dateline since a 1998 Washington Post recap of the Electronic Entertainment Expo and added a new transit stored-value card to my collection.

10/16/2023: Startup Tackles Wireless Dead Zones With Balloons, Blockchain, and Cash Payouts, PCMag

After I had closed out my reporting at MWC Las Vegas last month by interviewing two World Mobile executives on the show floor there, fact-checking and actually writing the piece ate up another two weeks.

10/17/2023: IRS Will Offer Free (But Limited) Direct E-Filing Next Year, PCMag

I’ve spent years objecting to Intuit’s rent-seeking strategy of getting governments to cede the tax-prep market to the commercial sector–see, for instance, this 2014 Yahoo Tech column. So I will admit that I wrote this report about the Internal Revenue Service launching a pilot program for direct online tax filing with a certain amount of glee. Intuit PR was apparently not nearly as pleased to read it, leading to the bitter statement that we appended to the post after publication.

10/18/2023: Mozilla ‘Creep-O-Meter’ Gauges the State of Online Privacy: Here’s Where We Stand, PCMag

I got an advance copy of this announcement from Mozilla PR, allowing me to finish and file this Tuesday afternoon in the same temporary working space I’d used to write the IRS post on arriving in Atlanta: the United Club in ATL’s T concourse.

10/18/2023: FierceWireless Keynote Panel: You’ve Built 5G. Now Put It Into
Action, CCA Annual Convention

My first CCA panel had executives with four regional carriers–Darlene Howell of Appalachian Wireless, Slayton Stewart of Carolina West Wireless, and Adriana Rios Welton at UScellular–as well as Ericsson North America’s Surya Bommakanti talking about ways that smaller wireless firms could monetize 5G’s potential beyond getting individual customers to sign up for new wireless plans.

10/18/2023: Smaller carriers talk bigger 5G ambitions, with FWA first, Fierce Wireless

That afternoon, I wrote a recap of my own panel. I had recorded audio of it from my phone, but my attempt to outsource some of the work by having Otter transcribe that recording may have taken more time than I would have needed to play back the YouTube clip at 1.25x speed while typing only the meaningful quotes.

10/19/2023: Developing a Complete eSIM Strategy, CCA Annual Convention

This conversation with three experts in eSIM deployment–Chris Jahr, RiPSIM Technologies; John Myhre, GCI; and Randy Van Buren, Nokia–became an acoustic performance when we learned that the microphones had somehow stopped working. Fortunately, the meeting room we occupied was compact enough for our unamplified voices to suffice.

10/19/2023: Dashlane Diminishes Free Password-Manager Tier, PCMag

I learned about this downgrade of Dashlane’s free tier from an e-mail notice sent to customers Thursday morning–which I received because I had opened a Dashlane account for fact-checking purposes a couple of years ago. I then had two hours between CCA panels to write this post and get lunch, and for once I wrote fast enough to leave myself 55 minutes to eat.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/10/22/weekly-output-world-mobile-irs-direct-file-mozilla-creep-o-meter-5g-ambitions-at-small-carriers-x2-esim-strategies-dashlane/

#5GBroadband #Atlanta #CCA #CompetitiveCarriersAssociation #Dashlane #digitalPrivacy #eFileTaxes #fixedWirelessAccess #FWA #Intuit #IRSDirectFile #Mozilla #passwordManagers