Category: thinkbroadband

The news is that the UK has finally made it to 91% Gigabit broadband availability, through the combination of the full fibre rollouts and Virgin Media O2 cable network coverage. We reported on hitting 90% back in February 2026 so that additional point of coverage has taken 5 months. The expectation is that future point […]

As many long standing users will know, we offer a tool which monitors your broadband connection 24x7x365 sending a small ‘ping’ every single second, and measuring how long it takes to get a response back. We call this the Broadband Quality Monitor (BQM) tool. We then graph it every 100 seconds so you can identify […]

It has taken two months but we’ve made it to the next full percent point of full fibre coverage in the United Kingdom. Our figures as of the morning of 8th March 2026 have the UK at 83.04% full fibre availability up from 82.18% on 4th January 2026. The pace is a lot slower than […]

Eight days since our tracking of broadband coverage across the UK hit 90% Gigabit availability and the broadband rollouts have continued with the UK Gigabit figure now sitting at 90.17%. Not all is perfect though as we thought we’d added enough coverage from multiple networks during the course of Friday to hit 83% full fibre […]

Our tracking of the UK and its constituent councils and 650 constituencies has the UK at 90.04% Gigabit broadband coverage as of 25th February 2026. 90% Gigabit coverage is a significant milestone on the way to the political ambition of 99% Gigabit for 2032, and follows on from the UK reaching the 85% milestone back […]

Back in September 2025, we launched a Postcode Subscription feature to track changes to broadband availability in postcodes you subscribe to. This is a free feature to all users for up to five postcodes (although we will add more on request on an account if justified). This tool monitors the postcodes for changes on a […]

The steady progress continues with the full fibre rollouts, but the last few weeks has seen a big slow down in what is being found in terms of new full fibre rollouts. This is not just because of the rollbacks from Openreach, but there is a general slowing across many of the networks we are […]

On Tuesday 3rd February 2026 a new set of DSIT Open Market review (OMR) files dropped and the data mismatch in the Project Gigabit supplier column fixed. On Tuesday afternoon and evening we scanned the 41 million UPRN records and have updated the Project Gigabit supplier entries that show on our broadband maps. The various […]

We’ve ingested the 30 million addresses for England and Wales from the latest DSIT Open Market Review released in January 2026 and the maps have been rendered and interactivity updated to let everyone browse the data. DIST collects the Open Market Review data every four months, i.e. January, May and September of every year and […]

It has taken almost two months, but we can announced UK FTTP coverage has risen from 81.01% on the 9th November 2025 to 82.18% on 4th January 2026. There has been lots of full fibre activity with the bulk being Openreach and nexfibre, with the reason that it took so long to go from 81% […]