We’re committed to building the best digital future for the UK, so we’ve announced an ambitious plan to deliver Ultrafast full Fibre Broadband to 25 million homes and businesses by December 2026, if the right investment conditions are in place.
Our plans support the Government’s ambition of making Gigabit capable broadband available to more than 85% of the country and, in doing this, we’re determined to be as open and transparent about our build programme as we can be.
This is a monumental change to the UK’s communication infrastructure and it’s a hugely complex engineering project with lots of moving parts and technical challenges to overcome.
Openreach’s infrastructure connects homes and businesses across the UK. To run our network we split the UK up into around 5,600 areas, with each one usually covering a village, small town or part of a larger town or city. We call these areas ‘exchanges’, and most of our full fibre build plan is organised around them. The map below shows our plan for major full fibre build in these exchanges. As we announce more places that contribute to our 25m plan then we’ll add them to the map.
Some of our fibre build is not organised into these exchange areas, and so even if we don’t have major plans for an area, we may still be building fibre for some customers. For example we connect new housing developments to fibre all the time and right across the UK. And when we work with governments or local communities to co-fund roll-out of ultrafast full fibre networks this is often at a smaller scale than a full exchange area. We don’t publish details of these smaller build programmes on the map but you may see our teams working in the area. Learn more about our programmes.
Use our fibre checker to find out services your home and business can access.
Openreach will update the build information at least every three months – including whether build timelines for areas have moved back or been brought forward due to unforeseen operational reasons. We’ll also notify if a new location gets added to our plans.
Enter your postcode to see if your exchange has been announced as part of our build plan
We’ve done everything we can to make sure that this map accurately reflects our plans at the time of publication. We’ll regularly update this map with any interim changes to the published plans for example, if plans evolve or get delayed due to unforeseen circumstances.
If you’d like a list of all the exchanges and locations currently announced as part of our Ultrafast Full Fibre Broadband Build Plan you can download it here.
We can keep you updated
The best way to keep up to date with our plans for your own home or business, and not just your exchange, is to register for Ultrafast Full Fibre updates through our Fibre Checker