Ambitious plans to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 have been rolled back in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's spending review.
Now the aim is to have a "minimum of 85% coverage" by that date.
It will come as no surprise to industry watchers, who felt the target was unachievable.
The budget for the plan remains the same - £5bn, although the figure for next year's spend is much lower.
Now only £1.2bn of that £5bn will be made available up until 2024.
The National Infrastructure Strategy document said it will "seek to accelerate roll-out further to get as close to 100% as possible".
It is expected that commercial deployments of gigabit-capable fibre networks will reach more than 70% of premises by the end of 2025 anyway, without government intervention.
