Broadband in Derby

Derby's numbers leave little to argue about. Superfast coverage of 99.4% clears the UK norm of about 97 per cent, and gigabit-capable services extend to 96.7% of postcodes across seven outward codes, including DE1, DE3, DE21, DE22, DE24 and DE73. The below-10Mbps share is 0.1%, which across 5,394 postcodes amounts to a handful of stragglers. One figure needs interpreting rather than taking at face value: full fibre is logged at zero even though nearly every postcode is gigabit-capable, which is consistent with cable network coverage being what the dataset measures here. In practice the label matters less than the speeds on offer. A Derby postcode picked at random will almost certainly support the fastest consumer packages, so the real decision is contract and price rather than availability.

No price data attaches to this page, so read the numbers as a capability check. Fast broadband can be treated as a given across the city: 96.7% of postcodes support gigabit-capable services and the 0.1% below 10Mbps barely registers. For home workers weighing a move, the chance of inheriting a slow line in Derby is close to nil on these figures.