The 31 days between 12th March and 12th April 2026 have seen the Openreach full fibre footprint increase by a new record of 19,624 premises per day, totalling 608,354 premises over the course of the month.
The over 600,000 premises sets a new record for the amount of Openreach FTTP we’ve mapped in a single month, and puts Openreach potentially on track to hit 25 million premises Ready for Service in October 2026, but more likely November 2026. As of 12th April, we have recorded their footprint as 22,360,468 premises.
| Number of Openreach FTTP premises passed as of 12th April 2026 | Age of property Based on ONS date of introduction of postcode | Change since 12th March 2026 | % of all properties in time period |
| 15,311,066 | Prior to 1990 | 452,085 | 66.05% (+1.81) |
| 1,913,322 | 1990 to end of 1995 | 65,066 | 65.74% (+2.13) |
| 1,676,930 | 1996 to end of 2000 | 42,804 | 69.74% (+1.63) |
| 826,525 | 2001 to end of 2005 | 15,796 | 66.98% (+1.20) |
| 559,563 | 2006 to end of 2010 | 12,871 | 56.87% (+1.27) |
| 502,951 | 2011 to end of 2015 | 7,940 | 66.68% (+0.95) |
| 858,149 | 2016 to end of 2020 | 7,343 | 75.90% (+0.51) |
| 711,962 | 2020 to end of 2025 | 4,449 | 80.87% (-0.04) |
Usually, we publish these numbers each month on the 12th, but holidays got in the way, so while the figures were analysed based on the footprints on the 12th, we are publishing the figures two days later.
The 22.3 million figure does not include addresses where Openreach has previously indicated Ready for Service, but has subsequently rolled back that status. We call these transient addresses, and a good number are returning to Ready for Service as the problems that were making installs difficult or expensive for Openreach are resolved.
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We are unfortunately stuck in a “We’ve built to many parts of this area” exchange with no plans to build further. I have no idea how they can describe it this way when only a handful of properties (literally under 20) can access their FTTP.
It’s rare for Openreach to build to 100% of an exchange area, of which there are just 5,500 across the UK. Not unusual to find some streets or suburbs or large exchanges where they’ve not built to, i.e. 1 in 3 chance you won’t have it at present.
Openreach appears to be using the “we’ve built to many areas of this exchange” status to mean “we got some government funding and built to some very rural parts of the exchange area only”, rather than using it to mean “the vast majority of properties in this exchange can access Openreach FTTP” (like most people would understand it to mean).
In my experience, its very normal for exchange areas to report the “many areas built” status even if it just involved building to one group of rural houses and even if it only represents 3% of the exchange area.
Example exchange name?
I’ll gather a few example exchanges from Scotland later today, and send them to you in PM’s on the forum 👍
Sadly it looks like OR have written our village off. Was originally told we’d have it available LAST January (2025) but that fell by the wayside. Since been in build, out of build, in build and now back out of build. When questioned just hide behind corporate confidentiality – even when questioned by our MP. 930M from our cab and having to get by with a 20Mb/s service. 🥺🥴
Openreach have let me down three times now. Ordered upgrade 26th March. On the first appointment date, 8th April, no-one turned up. Second date, 14th April, wireman turned up and said “Cant do this in my own, needs traffic management” and left. Third appointment, 24th April, cancelled by email and told next appointment 10th June, that’s 10 weeks since order made. D-Day Landings took less time to organise than this farce. Definitely NOT Happy. 🙁
Further to my previous comment/complaint/whinge, I have been phoning around various FTTP providers, BT, EE, PlusNet, Virgin,etc., and in each case they all say that they use OpenReach to do the actual install. OR appear to have a stranglehold on Fibre Rollout, there is no other company allowed to do it. Also, OR will not allow me to buy the ONT on eBay (for as little as £6) and install it in my home myself, despite their having a webpage on their site entitled “Self Install help guide”, as they say that the ONT must be registered with them before being installed. I have escalated my complaint with them to their Executive Complaints department, but it is like banging your head against a brick wall. Next stop, my MP to see if she can knock some sense into OR’s management. (Some hope!)
Virgin Media use their own network and do not use Openreach for consumer broadband services.
Your comment on no other fibre rollout is possible is also wrong since alt-nets (i.e. not Openreach, not Virgin Media, not KCOM) have built FTTP to around 45% of the UK.
As for buying an ONT – it is supplied as part of the ongoing subscription, so no idea why you want to buy one from eBay.