Broadband in Nottingham

Take the three headline numbers together. Gigabit-capable coverage is 96%. Superfast availability is 99.1%, a couple of points above the UK average of roughly 97%. And the share of the city below 10 Mbps is 0.1%, which across 6,359 postcodes amounts to a handful of locations.

The practical consequence is that broadband stops being a factor in choosing where to live within Nottingham. Nineteen premises in twenty can order a gigabit-capable package, and almost all the rest still clear the superfast threshold of 30 Mbps. The coverage data does not identify which technologies deliver the gigabit figure. What it does show is a city where the headline percentages leave very little room for weak spots, spread over ten outward codes. Few coverage gaps of any kind survive at these levels, and the ones that do are captured in that 0.1% tail.

For tenants and buyers the numbers translate directly. Almost any Nottingham address will support heavy simultaneous use, and the 0.1% below 10 Mbps is small enough that encountering it by accident is unlikely. The one caveat is the gap between 96% and 99.1%: a small band of premises has superfast but no gigabit option, worth knowing for anyone who specifically wants top-tier speeds.