{
  "id": 2188776,
  "title": "FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/fcc-officially-decides-gigabit-speeds-are-too-good-for-you",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T17:38:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/982863/fcc-kills-gigabit-goal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}