Back on August 6th the UK broke the 25% full fibre coverage figure and now 40 days later we have reached 26% and after a busy Tuesday we are on our way to 27%, i.e. Tuesday saw our tracking go from 25.96% to 26.06% for the overall UK figure.
Of course 26% availability means there is still 74% without access to full fibre but things are improving daily. The availability is not uniform across the UK and our list of the 36 local authorities with FTTP coverage above 50% actually represent 2,653,186 of the total 8,046,662 premises with access to an FTTP option.
| Local Authority Name | Full Fibre Coverage (% of premises) |
| City of Kingston upon Hull | 99.08% |
| Milton Keynes | 87.42% |
| Belfast | 83.42% |
| Ards and North Down | 80.46% |
| Antrim and Newtownabbey | 76.84% |
| Mid and East Antrim | 76.05% |
| Coventry District | 75.41% |
| Lisburn and Castlereagh | 73.15% |
| Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon | 72.12% |
| Derry and Strabane | 71.93% |
| Epsom and Ewell District | 71.02% |
| Newham | 68.88% |
| City of Peterborough | 68.56% |
| Tower Hamlets | 68.06% |
| Exeter District | 67.65% |
| Thanet District | 65.74% |
| York | 65.58% |
| Mourne and Down | 65.49% |
| Wirral District | 65.17% |
| Causeway Coast and Glens | 64.55% |
| Salford District | 63.32% |
| Worthing District | 62.95% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 62.75% |
| Tameside District | 61.73% |
| City of Bristol | 61.32% |
| City of Westminster | 59.88% |
| Southwark | 59.76% |
| Bury District | 59.16% |
| Mid Ulster | 57.17% |
| Leeds District | 56.06% |
| Barking and Dagenham | 53.84% |
| Bromsgrove District | 53.76% |
| Stirling | 53.39% |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 52.48% |
| City of Edinburgh | 50.99% |
| Sir y Fflint – Flintshire | 50.16% |
Our public stats pages has had the nations and county/unitary authority figures updated with a mid week update.
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There also seems to be some activity in the rural South West of Scotland too! In the back roads inland from Ayr and Prestwick are Openreach trucks trundling around with poles and clusters of guys tacking up little yellow “Caution: Overhead Fibre” signs on the existing hardware. A squint skywards will note a second cable being instaled in parallel with the existing copper line.