FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal
jonbaer
33 points
10 comments
August 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
Larrikin
I don't really care if the rural areas that voted for this are now stuck with slower speeds, but the bit about it being unfair to satellite Internet providers is obviously just naked corruption.
_bent
after years of German political culture just being US culture wars 10 years delayed, it's great to see the Exportweltmeister contributing back by bringing "Technologieoffenheit" to the states
leoedin
I've got fibre to my house. I could pay more for 1Gbps, but I'm currently on 500Mbps and it's good enough. Unless I worked in video editing or did AI training at home or something I don't think I'll upgrade. There's just not that many benefits to being faster. I'd say even 100Mbps would be good enough for most uses. It's nice to be faster, but I'm not certain it improves my life very much.
heyitsmedotjayb
Better things aren't possible!
m463
So I guess this means starlink and wisp kinds of technologies are being "discriminated against"