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UK Broadband Report

Welcome to the latest edition of our State of UK Broadband Report, with regular statistics, key developments and some exclusive statistics.

The September 2025 State of UK Broadband Report is available in HTML format. We are doing this to increase accessibility.

September 2025 — Summary

This is the sixth edition of the UK Broadband Report, and we’ll provide the usual updates on the state of the nations, fibre and gigabit progress towards UK government targets, prices for the large retail providers (along with their market share) and alt-nets. We have also updated the Fibre Overbuild matrix along with the Alt-net Financial Backers and have a new section mapping Retail ISPs to Wholesale and Alt-net providers.

Our special feature in this edition is looking at how older households can save on their broadband and stay ‘Scam Smart’.

Report Contents

• EXCLUSIVE UPDATE — We announce 80% Full Fibre availability in the UK based on our independent data
• The State of Broadband — Key stats from the report.
• State of the Nations – Comparisons across the four nations and English Regional breakdown for Superfast, Gigabit and Full Fibre coverage
• Progress towards government targets — UK-wide and national breakdown of progress towards 85% Gigabit, 85% FTTP
• Largest Full-Fibre Networks — As Competition within alt-nets increases, we review the largest alt-nets, showing how significant CityFibre, Nexfibre, Netomnia and Community Fibre are compared to the rest.
• Relative Market Share — We look at the year-on-year market shares of the top 5+ providers.
• Average Consumer Fibre Prices — Benchmark for the pricing of services at various speeds.
• Altnet Pricing — Comparison between altnets for FTTP products and their pricing.
• Fibre Overbuild — We examine the overbuild stats by nation and English regions
• Fibre Overbuild by Provider — A matrix showing how much each fibre network has been overbuild by other altnets
• Altnets – The Financial Backers — A review of who is providing equity and debt to the different altnets.
• Retail ISPs to wholesale and alt-net mapping — Looking at which wholesale and altnets different broadband retailers are using.
• Consumer Feature: Broadband & Scam-Smart: Save Money — A quick guide for older households on how to save money on broadband.
• Consumer Feature: Broadband & Scam-Smart: Stay Safe — Tips on how to avoid being scammed.
• Broadband Speed Requirements — What speed broadband connection do you really need?

The next update is expected Spring 2026.

Previous reports are available here:

Q1/2025 – March 2025
Q3/2024 – July 2024
Q1/2024 – January 2024
Q3/2023 – July 2023
Q1/2023 – March 2023