FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download and upload speeds across the country! It's wild that 13 years after …

FCC Drops Gigabit Broadband Target, Calling It Unfair to Satellite and Wireless

The Federal Communications Commission delivered a stark reset to its vision of American connectivity last week. On August 14, it formally erased the long-term goal of 1,000 Mbps download and 500 Mbps upload speeds that the prior administration had set as an aspirational benchmark for advanced telecommunications. The move came wrapped inside the agency’s annual Section 706 report, which concluded that broadband deployment already meets the statut…

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral."