The areas the fibre rollout is leaving behind

Across 358 local and unitary authorities, 84,989 postcodes have no gigabit broadband scheduled by January 2029. That is 1,471,838 homes, and it counts every plan operators have announced, funded or not.

We are writing these areas up one at a time, worst first. Each page uses the same Ofcom figures and says plainly what is available there instead of fibre.

• Shropshire

  2,023 postcodes and 21,742 homes with nothing planned by 2029. Full fibre reaches 75.2% of the area today.

• Aberdeenshire

  1,864 postcodes and 27,657 homes with nothing planned by 2029. Full fibre reaches 49.1% of the area today.

• Somerset

  1,507 postcodes and 17,579 homes with nothing planned by 2029. Full fibre reaches 75.7% of the area today.

• North Yorkshire

  1,430 postcodes and 13,981 homes with nothing planned by 2029. Full fibre reaches 83.8% of the area today.

• Northumberland

  1,294 postcodes and 12,465 homes with nothing planned by 2029. Full fibre reaches 83.9% of the area today.

Ranked by postcodes with no gigabit coverage scheduled by January 2029. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations Planned Network Deployments 2026, 13 May 2026. More areas are added as they are written up.