Following our launch of our new site a few months ago, we’re adding a rather long overdue feature we’ve been wanting to add for some time.
We have offered a broadband availability postcode search which provides information about what broadband services are available in your area. This is different from our compare broadband packages tool which lets you compare retail packages available to you.
We are now offering the option for registered users to watch up to 5 postcodes for changes. We’ll run daily checks and drop you an e-mail at 13:00 daily if there’s been any changes to the postcodes you’re watching:
You can view the full details of the updates on your profile:
We’re going to look at adding more details in future about ‘nearby’ postcodes so you can see when an altnet starts approaching your area.
As with our Broadband Quality Monitor tool (BQM) we are limiting this to 5 monitors per account, so you can watch 5 postcodes. We hope to expand this however due to some unscrupulous people trying to scrape our site we’ve had to limit some of our tools. If you have a genuine reason you need to watch more than 5 postcodes, check our postcode subscriptions page for more details.
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Great new feature, but needs refinement. My postcode says I can get Virgin Giga, however when looking at the VM website, it only says “Coming soon”.
Email us with your postcode and we can double check it and correct if appropriate.
TF7 5PJ is showing no G.fast but it does indeed have G.fast on it (Cabinet 9) maybe they need to updated it.
There was a small issue in the database which has been fixed; it may update availability in the next day or so but the scripts need to run to check line lengths again to confirm. You’ll know if it does if you’re monitoring 🙂
I’m currently seeing “Lit Fibre FTTP” for one postcode. Not sure if this is expected/intended, but I’m assuming this is just Lit Fibre retail over CityFibre as they acquired Lit Fibre last year?
Sometimes this can be caused where the providers share data and don’t include it in their set. It depends on how they integrate things. I’ve checked your second postcode and I can see CityFibre on their own website say it’s widely available so will ask Andrew to check.
I’ve checked and I think it should say CityFibre is available:
CityFibre FTTP [..] AVAILABLE 10 hours ago
..so it should show CityFibre as available.
I think I get your question – why is Lit Fibre shown when they were acquired. As I hinted, there are occasionally some situations where the postcodes from company A acquired by company B don’t always shift in full and there are different wholesale arrangements in place already.
The check here is a WHOLESALE check, not a retail one.. So we don’t say “Zen” is available if they resell CityFibre. It’s not a marketing tool but more informational. You can put the postcode into our main ISP list to see retailers who sell it.
Does that explain it?
We have had fibre installed in our area about February and still not heard anything
Installed by who? Fibre can often pass a property on its way to serve other areas, and some networks can take a year from bits appearing on a street to being properly live
I am showing as having VM Gig1, Gig2 and Cable available. Should be just Gig2?
Not aware of any locations that can order Virgin Media Gig2 and not the slower options. The Virgin range gets flagged to avoid confusion as bulk of public have no idea who nexfibre is, or what XGS-PON means.
Great feature. Only comment would be that the quoted Speed Test results are for 4G mobile, not any of the fixed broadband options listed.
Sorry, should add .. for my postcode.
The postcode subscription shows what services are available, not what speeds people are recording from speed tests