Gov's 2025 Spending Review Delays UK Gigabit Broadband Target to 2032

Quickline hits first milestones in fast and reliable broadband rollout to West and South Yorkshire

For customers like Colin Walker, who lives in the hamlet of Willitoft to the South of York, the difference has been life-changing. “It’s like winning the lottery. It has given me access to the world, within a second,” said Colin. “Getting full fibre broadband has made us part of the rest of the world, but I can still live in the countryside and keep my distance.” Quickline, the rural broadband provider, was awarded the contracts for West Yorkshi…

2025 Spending Review: a rollercoaster ride

Earlier today, Rachel Reeves announced in the House of Commons the outcome of the Spending Review for both resource and capital budgets across departments and devolved administrations. It was a speech long on detail about many capital projects, but much of the lead was buried. In our preview last week, we noted that the envelope set out in the Spring Statement promised to be a reversal of Robert Chote’s 2015 quip about a ‘rollercoaster ride’: la…

Gov's 2025 Spending Review Delays UK Gigabit Broadband Target to 2032

The UK Government’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has today delivered her 2025 Spending Review, which included a few bits of new information and updated figures for telecoms. But as well as confirming £1.9bn for broadband and mobile projects (existing commitments), it also appeared to reflect a delay to the gigabit broadband roll-out from 2030 to 2032. The latest Spending Review sets out the planned day-to-day spending totals for a…