Broadband in South Lanarkshire

Coverage here splits into two stories. In G44 and G73, full fibre is close to universal at 99.4% and 97.9% respectively, and G72 is not far behind. Across the whole area fibre reaches 65% of premises, a little under the UK average of around 69%, while gigabit-capable coverage runs higher at 83.3%.

The other story is the zeroes. G79, ML10 and ML11 all show no full-fibre availability in the Ofcom data, so the strong headline numbers are carried by the better-served codes. Even so, the basics hold up almost everywhere. Superfast coverage of 97% matches the national norm exactly, and only 1.4% of connections across 8,550 postcodes fall below 10Mbps. Seventeen outward codes sit behind these averages, which means the gap between the best and the rest is wider than any single figure can show.

What this means day to day depends on the outward code. A household in G44 or G73 can order almost any product on the market. In ML10 or ML11 the ceiling is lower, though the area's 97% superfast coverage suggests workable connections remain the norm. With 83.3% gigabit availability overall, most movers will find the fast options already in place, and the 1.4% slow tail means genuinely poor connections are rare.