Broadband in South Hams

Superfast is the sticking point. Four addresses in five can get it, which sounds respectable until set against a national figure of around 97%. The 80.1% recorded here leaves a substantial minority of addresses on slower lines, and 7.3% of connections fall below 10Mbps altogether. Gigabit-capable services reach 46.4%, so fewer than half of premises can order the top packages. That leaves a 53.6% majority whose ceiling is whatever the local superfast or slower infrastructure provides. These figures are averages across 17 outward codes, TQ7, TQ8 and TQ9 among them, and individual postcodes will land both above and below them. For a remote worker or a streaming-heavy household, the sensible reading is blunt. Broadband here needs verifying at the exact address, because the district average hides a wide spread.

The mix shapes who this area suits. A household happy with a superfast connection has a four-in-five chance of getting one, but with gigabit at 46.4% the odds of a top-tier service are worse than a coin flip. Anyone whose income depends on video calls should treat the connection as a survey item, examined as carefully as the roof.