“As part of our return to following the plain language of section 706, we propose to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000\/500Mbps established in the 2024 Report,” Carr’s plan said. “Not only is a long-term goal not mentioned in section 706, but maintaining such a goal risks skewing the market by unnecessarily potentially picking technological winners and losers.”<\/p>\n
Fiber networks can already meet a 1,000\/500Mbps standard, and the Biden administration generally prioritized fiber when it came to distributing grants to Internet providers. The Trump administration changed grant-giving procedures<\/a> to distribute more funds to non-fiber providers such as Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network.<\/p>\n Carr’s proposal alleged that the 1,000\/500Mbps long-term goal would “appear to violate our obligation to conduct our analysis in a technologically neutral manner,” as it “may be unreasonably prejudicial to technologies such as satellite and fixed wireless that presently do not support such speeds.”<\/p>\n 100\/20Mbps standard appears to survive<\/p>\n