Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden
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It’s wild that 13 years after Comcast said Americans don’t need gigabit internet The Verge is somehow back in this conversation.
Key facts
- He once said they didn’t need more than that. (The standard was raised from 25/3 to 100/20 in 2024.) Pai’s successor Brendan Carr, who is far worse in almost every category it was cheap and easy
- 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 them to gigabit
- It’s wild that 13 years after Comcast said Americans don’t need gigabit internet they're somehow back in this conversation
- Another day, another sad thing to report about their compromised Federal Communications Commission
Summary
Another day, another sad thing to report about their compromised Federal Communications Commission. It took years for the FCC to finally admit publicly that the outdated 25Mbps definition of “broadband” speed sucked.