FCC Drops Biden-Era Gigabit Broadband Speed Goals Under Chair Brendan Carr

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has officially eliminated long-term broadband speed targets set during the Biden administration. The scrapped goals had aimed to eventually bring gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds to Americans nationwide. Carr had signaled his intention to reverse these benchmarks earlier in 2025. The rollback reignites a longstanding debate about how ambitious U.S. broadband standards should be, even as parts of the private sector have already deployed high-speed infrastructure in select areas.