Broadband in City of London

Fibre is the story here. Coverage of 87.1% means most of the district's postcodes can order a full fibre service today, and gigabit availability sits at exactly the same figure. WC1V leads, with fibre recorded against every postcode tracked there. EC1M and EC2A are close behind, both above nine in ten.

The gaps are narrow but real. E1 has the weakest showing, with fibre reaching just under three postcodes in four, while EC3R and EC1Y sit in the low eighties. Superfast coverage, at 88.9%, runs less than two points above the fibre figure. That is a far smaller gap than the UK norm, where superfast reaches nearly every premises but fibre passes roughly seven in ten. So here, most postcodes without fibre lack a superfast option too.

For households the practical question is which side of the fibre line an address falls. Most postcodes can take a gigabit-capable fibre service, which comfortably covers streaming, video calls and heavy file transfers for a full household. The minority without fibre face a much thinner set of choices, and because superfast coverage sits at 88.9%, an address outside the fibre footprint often has no 30Mbps option either.