No fibre where you live? You are not waiting for it. You are outside the plan.

Ofcom collected the build plans of every UK network operator for the next three years. Add it all up and 1,471,838 homes still have no gigabit connection scheduled by 2029. Find out where your area stands.

We show what your area gets, not your exact address. No operator can be looked up by address outside their own checker.

The scale of it

1,471,838

Homes with no plan

by January 2029

84,989

Postcodes affected

across the UK

81.8%

Have full fibre

everyone else

358

Local authorities

in the data

Your three real options

Ranked by how often they work when fibre is off the table.

4G home broadband

10–60 Mbps typical

Works almost anywhere with a decent mobile signal, including places fibre will never reach. Unlimited plans from around £20 a month.

5G home broadband

100–500 Mbps typical

Fibre-class speed without a fibre line, but only inside 5G coverage. The price sits close to 4G, so check it first.

Everything else

Varies

Satellite, community fibre schemes, small local wireless networks, and the public funding you may be entitled to.

The areas being left behind

Ranked by postcodes with no gigabit coverage scheduled by 2029.

See all areas covered so far

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Planned Network Deployments 2026, 13 May 2026.

Why we do not have an address checker

Ofcom stopped naming operators in its postcode data in 2020 for commercial confidentiality reasons, and the databases that do name them are sold to telecoms wholesalers, not to websites. Any site claiming to know exactly what is live at your front door is either paying for a feed it cannot show you, or guessing.

We show what your area gets, then send you to the provider's own checker for the binding answer. That check is free, and it is the only one that ever counts.