Broadband in Stirling

The headline number is the fibre gap. Ofcom's data puts full fibre at 9.2% of Stirling premises, when roughly 69% of the UK has been passed. Coverage is very uneven. G62 leads the area, with fibre available to almost three quarters of premises, while G63 and G83 each sit at around a third. At the other end, FK15, FK2 and FK21 record no full fibre at all. Superfast speeds of 30 Mbps or more are easier to come by, reaching 93% of premises, though that still trails the national norm of about 97%. Gigabit availability, at 67.7%, runs well ahead of the fibre figure, which points to cable network coverage doing much of the work. A slow-speed tail remains. 3.4% of premises cannot get 10 Mbps, and for those addresses the headline averages offer no comfort.

For most households the practical question is whether superfast is enough. At 93% availability, the majority can stream and work from home on a standard connection without trouble. The 3.4% below 10 Mbps is the group with a genuine problem. Anyone moving within the area should treat the postcode, not the town, as the unit that matters, because the spread between outward codes here is unusually wide.