I had the chance to test it in Germany with Telefonica as it can be activated for free. It saves a lot of battery compared to 5G NSA. But they still had smaller problems with hand-overs to LTE and GSM.

Colleagues told me that the 5G NSA battery consumption problem is pretty much solved with other basebands and only Pixels are famous for suffering this much.

Will 7G be needed?

I say no for the next 15 years. Because there are 1425235 other things that are way much important than this.

well if they ever get the lander upright, you'd think they'd learn to put crashbags that self-inflate to upright landers by now

* https://www.wired.com/story/nokia-4g-network-on-the-moon/

I hope they go into the direction wifi is taking though - stability rather than speed.

I never think about cell speeds being slow anymore but irritation at lack of coverage is still frequent. Esp in urban jungles where buildings block it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP

Like 3GPP release 15 or 16 is what we currently know as a lot of in production LTE/LTE-Advanced stuff.