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- New Point Topic report shows FTTP coverage now reaches nearly 80% of all UK premises
- Overbuilding means almost a third of UK households now have at least two fibres passing their front door while some have as many as four – too many?
- But overbuilding is now slowing as further altnet consolidation looms
- Focus for UK altnets continues to shift from network building to commercialisation and revenue generation
Ten years ago, fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) was a rarity in the UK and only BT and Virgin Media were talking of meaningful future investments for the mass market. Fast forward to 2025 and things are very different: Changes in regulations, billions of pounds of investments and the launch of scores of altnets means that, as of the end of June this year, 77.8% of UK premises, equivalent to about 26.1 million homes and businesses, had access to at least one fibre broadband connection (up from 75.8% at the end of Q1), according to broadband market intelligence and analysis outfit, Point Topic, which boasts a dataset that covers all 1.7 million UK postcodes.
