Connectivity
Full-fibre broadband coverage
The share of homes and businesses that can get full-fibre broadband, from Ofcom's Connected Nations data.
- Published by
- Ofcom
- Level of detail
- Council
- Published for
- United Kingdom, Nation and Council
- Covers
- All four nations
- Updates
- Every few years
- Latest period
- January 2026
- Published
- 13 May 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- England
- Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- England296 of 296 councils have a figure
- Wales22 of 22 councils have a figure
- Scotland32 of 32 councils have a figure
- Northern Ireland11 of 11 councils have a figure
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as Ofcom publishes them, for the areas they were published for: the UK, nations and councils.
Larger areas use the publisher’s own figures, never an average of smaller areas.
Zoom in past council level and the map keeps the council shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- United KingdomJanuary 2026 only
- NationJanuary 2026 only
- CouncilJanuary 2026 only
Before you use it
- This is availability. It counts homes and businesses that can order a full-fibre service, not those that have one.
- Ofcom counts a property as able to get full fibre when fibre runs close to it, so only a dedicated fibre connection to the property is needed, and the customer would pay only a published connection charge.
- It covers all premises, homes and businesses together, as listed in Ordnance Survey AddressBase. Fixed-line broadband only.
- Ofcom publishes full-fibre coverage for the UK, nations and councils only. For output areas and postcodes it publishes gigabit coverage but no full-fibre figure, "due to commercial confidentiality", so full-fibre coverage is shown at council level at most.
- Broadband providers give Ofcom the data as a snapshot for January 2026. Ofcom publishes a new snapshot twice a year.
- Ofcom publishes percentages to one decimal place.
Colours on the map
Fixed breaks, held for every period, so colours mean the same over time.
How Open Index describes it
Page text on Open Index comes from this layer’s sentence rules, filled in with published figures. For Hackney:
In Hackney, 84.1% of homes and businesses could get full-fibre broadband in January 2026.
For the UK as a whole, the figure was 81.0%.
Source and licence
- Edition
- Connected Nations update: Spring 2026
- Published
- 13 May 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
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