BDUK release Gigabit figures for October to December 2025

BDUK is reporting that the last quarter saw the various Government Gigabit programmes deliver 56,000 premises with Gigabit capable coverage.

The break down between the three Gigabit programmes is:

• 41,830 premises delivered under Project Gigabit Contracts, or Government Infrastructure Subsidy.
• 10,150 premises using the voucher scheme
• 4,050 premises were delivered as part of an old Superfast programme or the current Hubs programme

Since inception of the Gigabit programmes the total estimate for premises delivered is running at 1,373,800 premises which is 4.1% of the premises in the United Kingdom.

The last quarters breakdown across the nations forming the United Kingdom is:

• 45,100 premises in England
• 6,200 premises in Scotland
• 4,800 premises in Wales
• less than 50 premises in Northern Ireland

The 1,373,800 premises that have seen Gigabit delivered via some form of subsidy splits out as follows:

• England 965,700 premises
• North East England 35,800 premises
• North West England 85,100 premises
• Yorkshire and the Humber 104,400 premises
• East Midlands 96,100 premises
• West Midlands 99,400 premises
• East of England 172,700 premises
• London 9,200 premises
• South East England 177,300 premises
• South West England 185,800 premises
• Wales 134,200 premises
• Scotland 145,100 premises
• Northern Ireland 128,800 premises

We of course are tracking the rollouts of all the different broadband providers involved, the hardest to track are the Hubs and voucher scheme programmes, as these can see delivery being as small as a single property. For the hubs programme, if delivering that hub does kick start a wider rollout in an area we would pick that up, and vouchers will usually be picked up when we find time to look outside the scope of the wider GIS and commercial rollouts.

As the commercial rollouts appear to have entered a winter hiatus, the work of the larger Project Gigabit contracts will become increasingly important both in terms of bringing Gigabit (usually full fibre) broadband to properties otherwise overlooked but also for keeping construction teams active so that once economic conditions improve commercial rollouts can be revisited.

A big danger currently is with the mergers and acquisitions and challenging investment conditions that networks that previously submitted plans indicating large rollouts will subsequently submit new plans that reign in commercial plans, and therefore the number of premises requiring intervention will increase in the couple of years.