Exclusive: 7 out of 10 UK properties covered by full fibre

Something to celebrate over morning coffee or tea, 70.02% of UK premises (residential+business) are now covered by a fibre to the premises (full fibre) network. The figure would be perhaps 2 points higher if we did not apply our Ready for Service criteria rather than simply premises passed.

This latest single point increase in coverage has been slow at 34 days. This is a combination of a couple of factors, the gradual slowing down of the roll-outs as networks have increasingly built to the easy to reach areas. Another factor is that with it being the last month in the quarter we’ve been busy looking at some of the smaller alt-net footprints and that has slowed us down in terms of the amount of additions being able to be made each day.

The list of shame, which is the ten local authority areas with the least amount of FTTP (to see the full list of councils, head over to our council list), has been updated to:

• Na h-Eileanan an Iar 6.67%, no change since 8th August 2024
• Isles of Scilly 9.49% FTTP, no change since 15th March 2024
• Shetland Islands 10.95%, no change since 8th August 2024
• Harlow District 13.79%, an increase of 0.09 since 8th August 2024
• Orkney Islands 14.09%, no change since 8th August 2024
• West Dunbartonshire 15.90%, an increase of 0.37 since 8th August 2024
• Argyll and Bute 18.95%, an increase of 0.88 since 8th August 2024
• Telford and Wrekin 21.56% an increase of 0.02 since 8th Augusst 2024
• Perth and Kinross 20.36%, an increase of 0.05 since 8th August 2024
• Eastleigh District 27.95%, a new entrant to the bottom ten

Warwick District have a one time visit to the list of least covered councils saw a 1.75 increase in coverage to 29.25%. This has shifted them out of the bottom ten, but only just at 12th worst for full fibre coverage.