Broadband in Renfrewshire

The area-wide full fibre figure of 2.4% hides a stark split. In G51 every postcode has full fibre recorded, and G52 is close behind at 97.5%. The third-best outward code registers zero, which means fibre availability effectively begins and ends with those two codes; G78, PA1 and PA10 all sit at nothing. Most residents will not notice. Gigabit-capable coverage, much of it delivered over cable rather than fibre, reaches 92.4% of postcodes, and superfast availability is higher still at 98.1%, a point above the UK norm. Only 0.7% of postcodes fall below 10Mbps. So the everyday experience across the seventeen outward codes is of fast, widely available broadband, with the specific full fibre technology largely confined to G51 and G52 for the time being.

For a household comparing addresses across Renfrewshire, the fibre map matters less than it first appears. With gigabit options at more than nine postcodes in ten and a below-10Mbps share of just 0.7%, speed is rarely the problem wherever you land. The exception cuts the other way: anyone who specifically wants a full fibre product, rather than an equivalent speed over cable, should look at G51 or G52, because outside those codes the data records none at all.