The period 12th May to 12th June has been an average month for mapping Openreach full fibre ready for service (RFS) premises with us adding 259,240 to the footprint which is now standing at 22,776,815 premises.
The goal of 25 million premises passed by December 2026 means another 2.25 million premises need to built and mapped by us, and everything looks just about on track to hit that goal. This is working on the assumption that the past pattern of a quiet month, an average month and then a bumper month will repeat for the rest of 2026.
| Number of Openreach FTTP premises passed as of 12th June 2026 | Age of property Based on ONS date of introduction of postcode | Change since 12th May 2026 | % of all properties in time period |
| 15,599,399 | Prior to 1990 | 177,348 | 67.22% (+0.72) |
| 1,950,603 | 1990 to end of 1995 | 17,331 | 66.98% (+0.58) |
| 1,701,157 | 1996 to end of 2000 | 12,326 | 70.71% (+0.50) |
| 834,992 | 2001 to end of 2005 | 5,247 | 67.61% (+0.40) |
| 568,327 | 2006 to end of 2010 | 4,953 | 57.65% (+0.45) |
| 508,101 | 2011 to end of 2015 | 3,057 | 67.27% (+0.34) |
| 862,693 | 2016 to end of 2020 | 2,928 | 75.76% (-0.25) |
| 730,621 | 2020 to end of 2025 | 15,128 | 79.43% (-1.53) |
| 20,992 | 2026 to end of 2030 | 20,992 | 87.81% |
With the new ONS postcode sets that give introduction dates for postcodes, we can now identify postcodes marked as Jan, Feb, March and April 2026. This means the next five year period covering 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 has been added to the table.
The negative change for the 2016-2020 and 2020-2025 periods is because of work chasing down new build premises for other networks. Seeing a drop in the older 2016-2020 period is unusual, but we’ve been going further back looking at the large number of student apartment blocks that have been built in the last decade.
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