FCC chairman Brendan Carr is concerned that efforts to ensure Americans have gigabit internet, which the Biden administration identified as a long-term goal in 2024, "risks skewing the market by unnecessarily potentially picking technological winners and losers."
That concern was shared in a fact sheet (PDF) related to the "Inquiry Concerning Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a Reasonable and Timely Fashion" that was published by the FCC on July 17. The commission is required to conduct this inquiry annually, as mandated by Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
