Broadband in Malvern Hills

Two thirds of the district's 2,633 postcodes have fibre to the premises recorded, within touching distance of the UK's roughly 69 per cent of premises. WR14 does much of the lifting at 89 per cent, backed by WR5 on 78.6 and WR13 on 70.4. The DY codes tell the opposite story, with DY12, DY13 and DY14 all showing zero fibre.

Then there is the tail. Some 9.6 per cent of postcodes cannot reach 10 Mbps, a far larger share than the fibre numbers would suggest. Superfast coverage of 91.9 per cent leaves a similar shortfall at the 30 Mbps threshold. Gigabit-capable availability, at 68.1 per cent, tracks the fibre figure closely, so top-end speeds here ride on fibre rather than cable. Fifteen outward codes decide which side of that divide an address falls on, and the gap between them is unusually stark.

For households the two numbers to hold in mind are 66.5 and 9.6. If your postcode sits in the fibre two thirds, gigabit speeds are on the menu now. If it lands in the below-10 Mbps tail, no amount of shopping around will fix the line, and WR14's near-nine-in-ten coverage might as well be another country. The aggregate blurs two very different experiences, so the code pages matter more than usual here.