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

The Federal Communications Commission has eliminated a long-term goal for gigabit download and five hundred megabits per second upload speeds. As Ars Technica tells it, the agency now suggests that the previous target was not technologically neutral and was unfair to slower technologies. The change was finalized on August fourteenth in the agency's latest broadband deployment report, with the commission declaring that current levels of broadband deployment in the United States are acceptable.

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