r/pcmasterrace • u/FreeHugs23 • Aug 20 '26

News/Article FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies | FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be “technologically neutral.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/
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u/ZombifiedByCataclysm i9-12900KF | Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti | 32GB DDR5 Aug 20 '26

Brendan Carr is a fucking idiot.

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u/TheGeekno72 Maker of the GeekCube // CachyOS shill Aug 20 '26

a fucking sold out idiot, cause even most idiots don't do that for free

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u/The_Lost_Jedi Aug 20 '26

Yeah. He knows exactly what he's doing. It's corruption, plain and simple.

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u/Pleasant-Minute-1793 Aug 20 '26

He also re-allowed telecom to have hidden fees just like a month ago

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u/WulfTheSaxon Aug 20 '26

He allowed them to combine fees on one line, they still can’t hide them.

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u/Pleasant-Minute-1793 Aug 20 '26

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/fcc-to-end-biden-era-rule-that-forces-isps-to-list-all-their-fees/

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u/WulfTheSaxon Aug 20 '26

“Rather than continuing to require providers to itemize ‘passthrough fees’ that can vary by location, we allow providers to display such fees in the aggregate, either as a maximum or ‘up to’ amount for the total fees applicable in any location where the service plan is offered, or as the exact total of such fees assessed in a particular location,” the FCC draft order said.

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u/Pleasant-Minute-1793 Aug 20 '26

>>>ISPs will be allowed to provide links to price labels instead of displaying the full labels prominently on ordering pages and account portals, and will be allowed to stop making the price-label information available in machine-readable spreadsheets.
The FCC is also relaxing the requirement that price information be available over the phone. The FCC said the change will “allow phone sales representatives to present label information conversationally, as a summary of key label fields, rather than require verbatim recitation.”

>>>The groups also said that “telephone-based disclosures remain essential to informed consumer decision-making” because they “serve as an important safeguard against scams and misleading offers that may reach consumers via mailers, e-mail, text messages, fake/scam websites, or robocalls.”

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u/WulfTheSaxon Aug 20 '26

As someone who’s had to listen to those verbatim disclosures, I appreciate the change.

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u/CAB-HH73 Aug 20 '26

Anyone Dumb enough to vote for Trump is a fucking idiot. That was half of America. Well hopefully, some of them gained some sense.

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u/VAVA_Mk2 PC Master Race Aug 20 '26

Brendan Carr is a Dummy™

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u/ThomW Aug 20 '26

He's not an idiot -- he knows exactly what he's doing. The idiots are the people who voted to allow this to happen.

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u/The_Lost_Jedi Aug 20 '26

No, it's more that he thinks we're all idiots who will buy this transparently corrupt bullshit.

This is a transparently corrupt measure to support corrupt rent-seeking telecom companies that would otherwise be pressured to upgrade their service to something remotely modern. Gigabit internet service as a technology is over TWENTY FUCKING YEARS OLD (2004 in Sweden), and it's been more than a decade since it started getting introduced for wider residential use. EPB was offering it in Chattanooga since 2010.