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

[u/FreeHugs23]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/

[u/ThePupnasty]

The wife travels for her work (I'm talking global scale) with chances of being in bum fuck no where. She has Google fi and hotspots off her phone, and so far that's been super freaking reliable wherever she's gone (Madagascar, other parts of Africa, South Korea, cambodia, poland, most of the EU, Mexico, Canada... But in the off chance she is out of cell service area, starlink portable would come in clutch. Trust me, I hate that dipshit Elon, I really fucking do, but it's hard to deny that starlink can be a good, capable solution in some situations.

[u/Useful_Radish_117 → u/ThePupnasty]

When you handle an international drug cartel but you also want to insta pretty dinner plates.

[u/ThePupnasty → u/Useful_Radish_117]

Shshsh!

[u/AnimalRescueGuy → u/ThePupnasty]

I love digging deep into a convo thread and finding gold like this. There’s my sensible chuckle for the day, thanks.

[u/xxademasoulxx → u/Useful_Radish_117]

The DEA’s toughest competitor is apparently the Google Fi coverage map.

[u/Ok_Cow9652 → u/ThePupnasty]

South Korea has the best internet in the world.

[u/RyujiCM → u/Ok_Cow9652]

Thailand too

[u/ThePupnasty → u/Ok_Cow9652]

I have no doubt about that. She was just there for a layover. Would love to go there myself sometime.

[u/icedlemons → u/ThePupnasty]

I like to think he’s just in the way of hard working smart people, like every CEO in a corporation… However it’s still hard to reconcile he’s such a public facing embarrassment.

[u/eagle6705 → u/ThePupnasty]

Yea my friend is in that position doing his cross country trip

[u/serious_sarcasm → u/ThePupnasty]

Really moving those goalposts.