{"url":"https://www.servnetuk.com/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026","slug":"uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026","study":"The commercial gigabit gap: the UK premises that cannot order a gigabit broadband connection","question":"Ofcom publishes gigabit availability for all premises and for residential premises separately, and publishes the difference for the UK and the four nations but at no geography below them. What does that difference say about commercial premises, and how does it vary by place and by urban or rural setting?","publisher":"Servnet","built":"2026-09-29T08:13:47Z","builder":"scripts/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026/analyse.py","snapshot_as_at":"January 2026","as_at_line":"Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026 snapshot, published Spring 2026 and compared against the July 2025 snapshot. n = 1011 published geographies covering every premise in the UK premise base.","dataset":{"csv":"/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026.csv","readme":"/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026-README.txt","rows":1011,"unit":"one row per published geography (361 local and unitary authorities, 650 Westminster constituencies)","columns":44,"source_licence_wording_verbatim":"We are providing this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence, which gives users various freedoms about how they choose to use the data, subject to conditions.","source_licence_version":null,"source_attribution":"Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations update: Spring 2026, fixed coverage and full-fibre take-up data (January 2026 snapshot), and Connected Nations 2025, fixed broadband coverage data (July 2025 snapshot). Ofcom copyright. Ofcom provides this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence.","derived_licence":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)","derived_licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","derived_attribution":"Servnet, The commercial gigabit gap, https://www.servnetuk.com/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026. Derived from Ofcom Connected Nations data; Ofcom copyright.","personal_data":"none; every figure is an area total, and no premise-level, postcode-level or address record is published","csv_sha256":"9b567123f27fa6615f1b66d6660140d192866e7aacf8c56b0fe6208ca7f4b303","readme_sha256":"7e899521336fb614f9e05cb9762a91d3e1c497c43ea64df25a9f423003edc11f"},"population":{"n_geographies":1011,"n_commercial_premises":2037917,"n_residential_premises":30455777,"n_all_premises":32493694,"definition":"Every commercial and residential premise in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026, across the complete set of 361 local and unitary authorities and 650 Westminster constituencies. The premise base is derived by Ofcom from Ordnance Survey AddressBase Premium and Islands.","source_rows":{"january_2026_sub_national":2022,"july_2025_sub_national":2022,"national_rows_per_release":495},"not_a_sample":"This is a complete count of a published population, not a sample. No confidence interval applies.","two_overlapping_geographies":"The 1,011 rows are two complete coverages of the same country, not 1,011 separate pieces of it: the 361 local and unitary authorities cover every UK premise, and so do the 650 Westminster constituencies. Filter on geography_level before summing anything, or every premise is counted twice."},"preRegisteredMetrics":[{"id":"uk_commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct","statement":"Share of UK commercial premises that cannot order a gigabit-capable broadband connection.","value_pct":29.48,"n":600791,"denominator":2037917,"denominator_label":"all 2,037,917 commercial premises in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026","attribution":"Ofcom's own published figure, read from its UK-and-nations file. Not a finding of this study.","how_to_recompute":"From 202601_fixed_coverage_UK_and_nations_r1.csv: take the rows Location=UK, Premise type=Commercial, Rurality=Total, and divide (Premise Base minus Gigabit capable) by Premise Base.","brief_expected_pct":29.5,"tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"uk_residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct","statement":"Share of UK residential premises that cannot order a gigabit-capable broadband connection.","value_pct":11.08,"n":3373668,"denominator":30455777,"denominator_label":"all 30,455,777 residential premises in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026","attribution":"Ofcom's own published figure.","how_to_recompute":"Same file, Premise type=Residential, Rurality=Total.","brief_expected_pct":11.1,"tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"gap_pp","statement":"The gap between the two, in percentage points.","value_pp":18.4,"denominator_label":"not a percentage of anything; the arithmetic difference of the two percentages above, each against its own premise base","how_to_recompute":"Subtract the residential percentage from the commercial percentage.","tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"ratio_commercial_to_residential","statement":"How many times more likely a UK commercial premise is than a home to have no gigabit broadband option.","value":2.66,"denominator_label":"the two rates above, each against its own premise base","how_to_recompute":"Divide the commercial shortfall count by the commercial premise base, the residential shortfall count by the residential premise base, and divide the first by the second. Computed from the counts, not from the two rounded percentages.","tolerance":0.02},{"id":"urban_ratio","statement":"The same ratio computed on urban premises only.","value":3.33,"n_commercial_premises":1684834,"n_residential_premises":26144107,"denominator_label":"1,684,834 urban commercial premises and 26,144,107 urban residential premises","attribution":"Ofcom publishes Rurality as a column beside Premise type. The urban/rural cut is Ofcom's data, not this study's derivation.","how_to_recompute":"Same file, Rurality=Urban.","tolerance":0.05},{"id":"rural_ratio","statement":"The same ratio computed on rural premises only.","value":1.58,"n_commercial_premises":353083,"n_residential_premises":4311670,"denominator_label":"353,083 rural commercial premises and 4,311,670 rural residential premises","attribution":"Ofcom's published cut.","how_to_recompute":"Same file, Rurality=Rural.","tolerance":0.05},{"id":"urban_share_of_commercial_shortfall_pct","statement":"Share of the UK commercial shortfall that is in urban areas.","value_pct":68.9,"n":413972,"denominator":600791,"denominator_label":"all 600,791 UK commercial premises without a gigabit option","how_to_recompute":"Urban commercial shortfall divided by total commercial shortfall.","tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"unmatched_asymmetry_ratio","statement":"How many times higher the commercial unmatched rate is than the residential one.","value":7.29,"n_commercial_unmatched":31608,"n_residential_unmatched":64811,"denominator_label":"2,037,917 commercial premises and 30,455,777 residential premises","how_to_recompute":"Divide the two unmatched percentages, each against its own premise base.","tolerance":0.05},{"id":"gap_pp_if_all_unmatched_capable","statement":"The gap on the most generous reading of the coverage data: that every unmatched premise, commercial and residential, is gigabit-capable after all.","value_pp":17.07,"denominator_label":"same premise bases; only the numerators change","how_to_recompute":"(Premise Base - Gigabit capable - Unclassified) / Premise Base for each premise type, then subtract.","tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"gap_pp_if_only_commercial_unmatched_capable","statement":"The gap on the reading that works hardest against this study's finding: every unmatched commercial premise gigabit-capable, the residential premises left exactly as Ofcom counts them.","value_pp":16.85,"denominator_label":"same premise bases; only the commercial numerator changes","how_to_recompute":"(Commercial Premise Base - Commercial Gigabit capable - Commercial Unclassified) / Commercial Premise Base, minus the residential percentage exactly as published.","tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"six_month_change_commercial_pp","statement":"Change in the commercial shortfall over the six months to January 2026, in percentage points.","value_pp":-2.53,"denominator_label":"2,028,083 commercial premises at July 2025 and 2,037,917 at January 2026 - two separately rebuilt bases, not a tracked panel","how_to_recompute":"Compute the commercial shortfall percentage in each release's UK-and-nations file and subtract.","tolerance_pp":0.1},{"id":"areas_derived","statement":"Number of published geographies for which a commercial-premises figure is derived here and is not published by Ofcom at that geography.","value":1011,"denominator_label":"361 local and unitary authorities plus 650 Westminster constituencies","how_to_recompute":"Count the data rows in the published CSV.","tolerance":0},{"id":"areas_where_commercial_premises_fare_better","statement":"Number of areas where commercial premises are better served than homes, so the pattern is not universal.","value":37,"breakdown":{"local_authorities":10,"westminster_constituencies":27},"denominator_label":"361 authorities and 650 constituencies","how_to_recompute":"Count rows in the published CSV where gap_pp_commercial_premises_minus_residential_premises is below zero.","tolerance":0}],"page":{"title":"The commercial gigabit gap: the UK premises that cannot order a gigabit broadband connection","standfirst":"Ofcom publishes broadband coverage for all premises and for homes separately, and never publishes the difference below nation level. That difference is 2,037,917 commercial premises, and 29.48% of them cannot order a gigabit broadband connection - against 11.08% of homes.","headline":"600,791 of the UK's 2,037,917 commercial premises - 29.48% - cannot order a gigabit broadband connection, against 11.08% of homes.","as_at_line":"Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026 snapshot. n = 2,037,917 commercial premises and 30,455,777 residential premises, each counted once under each of two geography systems, across 1,011 published geographies.","wording_rules":["Say 'commercial premises' every time, in the title, the meta description, every chart label, every column header and every answer. Never the word that means a trading organisation, with exactly two exceptions, both of them Ofcom's words rather than ours and both enforced by a build gate: the proper name of the dataset Ofcom uses to count firms, which has to be named for its attributions to be carried and for the SME figure to be checkable; and one short quotation from Ofcom's own report, quoted precisely so that it is not paraphrased into a claim Ofcom did not make.","Credit Ofcom for the national and per-nation figures, including the urban/rural cut, wherever they appear.","Claim only the sub-national derivation, the proof of the subtraction, the unmatched bound and the side-by-side comparison.","Never write 'OGL v3.0' for this data. Quote Ofcom's wording, which has no version number.","Never write 'first' or 'first ever'. The absence of prior work is stated as a fact about what is published, not as a boast.","State the denominator wherever a percentage appears.","Do not write 'mass-market'. It appears nowhere in Ofcom's material for this release; Ofcom says 'broadband products' and 'gigabit-capable'."],"headlines":[{"id":"commercial_shortfall","label":"of UK commercial premises cannot order a gigabit broadband connection","value":"29.48%","n":600791,"denominator":2037917,"denominator_label":"all 2,037,917 commercial premises in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026","source":"Ofcom, published","long":"600,791 of 2,037,917 commercial premises. Ofcom's own published figure."},{"id":"residential_shortfall","label":"of UK homes cannot order a gigabit broadband connection","value":"11.08%","n":3373668,"denominator":30455777,"denominator_label":"all 30,455,777 residential premises in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026","source":"Ofcom, published","long":"3,373,668 of 30,455,777 residential premises."},{"id":"ratio","label":"times as likely as a home to have no gigabit option","value":"2.66×","denominator_label":"a gap of 18.40 percentage points; the two rates above, each against its own premise base, computed from the counts","long":"A gap of 18.40 percentage points."},{"id":"urban_ratio","label":"times, in towns and cities, where the commercial shortfall is proportionally sharpest — in percentage points the rural gap is the wider one","value":"3.33×","n":413972,"denominator":1684834,"denominator_label":"1,684,834 urban commercial premises. The rural ratio is 1.58×, and the rural gap is 19.38pp against the urban 17.20pp.","source":"Ofcom's published rurality cut","long":"24.57% of urban commercial premises against 7.37% of urban homes. In rural areas the same ratio is only 1.58×."},{"id":"areas_derived","label":"local authorities and constituencies for which a commercial-premises figure is derived here","value":"1,011","denominator_label":"361 local and unitary authorities plus 650 Westminster constituencies","long":"Ofcom publishes a commercial figure for the UK and the four nations only."}],"sections":[{"id":"what-is-not-published","heading":"The number that sits in a column on its own","lead":"Ofcom publishes fixed broadband coverage for all premises and, separately, for residential premises only, at every geography it reports. It publishes the difference between the two for the UK and the four nations, and at no geography below them. That difference is the commercial premise base. Ofcom's own headline coverage figures are residential: its Spring 2026 summary workbook says of its fixed-line availability tables that all figures refer to availability at residential properties only, and a release footnote says its gigabit and full-fibre reporting focuses on residential properties. The same workbook is explicit that its take-up and its decent-broadband tables are for all premises, so the residential framing is specific to availability rather than general. Ofcom's report narrative, key findings and summary tables carry no commercial-premises gigabit coverage figure; in the surfaces checked here the commercial coverage numbers appear in the data files, and Ofcom's release footnote says its interactive report also carries coverage data, a surface not checked here.","findings":{"geographies_where_ofcom_publishes_a_commercial_figure":{"value":"UK and the four nations only","n":5,"note":"Split Total, Urban and Rural, so 15 location-by-rurality cells. Each cell carries eleven speed rows, so 165 published commercial rows in all, and the subtraction gate is tested on every one of them."},"geographies_where_it_is_derived_here":{"n":1011,"denominator_label":"361 local and unitary authorities plus 650 Westminster constituencies"}}},{"id":"the-national-picture","heading":"The national picture, which is Ofcom's own","lead":"600,791 of the UK's 2,037,917 commercial premises - 29.48% - cannot order a gigabit-capable broadband connection. For homes the figure is 11.08%, 3,373,668 of 30,455,777. The gap is 18.40 percentage points, and a commercial premise is 2.66 times as likely as a home to have no gigabit option. These national figures are Ofcom's, read straight out of its data file. Ofcom cannot match 1.551% of commercial premises and 0.213% of homes to any provider record, and does not count unmatched premises as gigabit-capable. Assume every unmatched premise on both sides is gigabit-capable after all and the gap is 17.07pp; move only the commercial side, which is the harder assumption, and it is 16.85pp. What follows below them is not.","findings":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":{"n":600791,"denominator":2037917,"denominator_label":"all 2,037,917 commercial premises in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026","pct":29.48,"small_n":false,"source":"Ofcom, published"},"residential_premises_without_gigabit":{"n":3373668,"denominator":30455777,"denominator_label":"all 30,455,777 residential premises in Ofcom's UK premise base at January 2026","pct":11.08,"small_n":false,"source":"Ofcom, published"},"all_premises_without_gigabit":{"n":3974459,"denominator":32493694,"denominator_label":"all 32,493,694 UK premises","pct":12.23,"small_n":false,"source":"Ofcom, published","note":"The all-premises figure sits close to the residential one because homes outnumber commercial premises roughly fifteen to one. Averaging the two together is how the commercial picture disappears."}},"nations":[{"nation":"England","commercial_premises":1687881,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":27.78,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":10.5,"gap_pp":17.28,"ratio":2.65,"urban":{"n_commercial_premises":1425039,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":23.14,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":7.2,"gap_pp":15.94,"ratio":3.21},"rural":{"n_commercial_premises":262842,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":52.96,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":33.57,"gap_pp":19.39,"ratio":1.58},"urban_share_of_commercial_shortfall_pct":70.32,"denominator_note":"Percentages are against that nation's own premise base for that rurality: 1,425,039 urban and 262,842 rural commercial premises."},{"nation":"Scotland","commercial_premises":180429,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":39.91,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":16.46,"gap_pp":23.45,"ratio":2.43,"urban":{"n_commercial_premises":133845,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":31.46,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":9.57,"gap_pp":21.89,"ratio":3.29},"rural":{"n_commercial_premises":46584,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":64.21,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":44.42,"gap_pp":19.79,"ratio":1.45},"urban_share_of_commercial_shortfall_pct":58.47,"denominator_note":"Percentages are against that nation's own premise base for that rurality: 133,845 urban and 46,584 rural commercial premises."},{"nation":"Wales","commercial_premises":107967,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":41.55,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":15.08,"gap_pp":26.47,"ratio":2.75,"urban":{"n_commercial_premises":80094,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":37.77,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":9.24,"gap_pp":28.53,"ratio":4.09},"rural":{"n_commercial_premises":27873,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":52.42,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":35,"gap_pp":17.42,"ratio":1.5},"urban_share_of_commercial_shortfall_pct":67.43,"denominator_note":"Percentages are against that nation's own premise base for that rurality: 80,094 urban and 27,873 rural commercial premises."},{"nation":"Northern Ireland","commercial_premises":61640,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":24.31,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":3.72,"gap_pp":20.59,"ratio":6.53,"urban":{"n_commercial_premises":45856,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":25.92,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":1.85,"gap_pp":24.07,"ratio":14.03},"rural":{"n_commercial_premises":15784,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":19.64,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":7.94,"gap_pp":11.7,"ratio":2.47},"urban_share_of_commercial_shortfall_pct":79.32,"denominator_note":"Percentages are against that nation's own premise base for that rurality: 45,856 urban and 15,784 rural commercial premises."}]},{"id":"urban-and-rural","heading":"Where the commercial shortfall is proportionally sharpest: towns and cities","lead":"In the urban UK 24.57% of 1,684,834 commercial premises cannot order a gigabit broadband connection, against 7.37% of 26,144,107 urban homes - a commercial premise is 3.33 times as likely to be without. In the rural UK both rates are far higher, 52.91% against 33.53%, but they are much closer together in relative terms: a ratio of 1.58. And 68.90% of the whole commercial shortfall is urban. What the data supports is a proportional claim, not a rural let-off: the commercial shortfall is sharpest in relative terms in towns and cities, and most of the shortfall is urban, while in rural areas both segments are badly served and commercial premises are still 19.38 percentage points worse off than rural homes - a wider gap in percentage points than the urban 17.20pp. Both readings are given because either one on its own would mislead. These are UK figures: they include Northern Ireland, which runs the other way.","findings":{"urban":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":24.57,"n":413972,"denominator":1684834,"denominator_label":"1,684,834 urban commercial premises","residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":7.37,"residential_denominator":26144107,"gap_pp":17.2,"ratio":3.33,"small_n":false},"rural":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":52.91,"n":186819,"denominator":353083,"denominator_label":"353,083 rural commercial premises","residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":33.53,"residential_denominator":4311670,"gap_pp":19.38,"ratio":1.58,"small_n":false},"urban_share_of_commercial_shortfall_pct":{"pct":68.9,"n":413972,"denominator":600791,"denominator_label":"all 600,791 UK commercial premises without a gigabit option","small_n":false}},"what_this_finding_is_not":"Measured in percentage points rather than relative risk, the UK rural gap (19.38pp) is wider than the urban one (17.20pp), because England - and so the UK total - runs that way. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the urban gap is the wider one on that measure. The claim made here is the one that holds on both of those measures, in the UK and in each of the four nations: urban commercial premises are proportionally far worse off than urban homes, and most of the shortfall is urban. The claim that the urban gap is the widest in percentage points is not made, and neither is the claim that rural commercial premises and rural homes fare alike - they do not.","attribution":"Rurality is a published column in Ofcom's UK-and-nations file, beside Premise type. This cut is Ofcom's data, not a derivation of this study. What this study adds is reading the two columns together.","limit":"Ofcom publishes rurality only at UK and nation level. There is no urban or rural split for any authority or constituency, so this cut cannot be mapped."},{"id":"sub-national","heading":"The 1,011 areas: what this study derives","lead":"Applying the same subtraction to Ofcom's local-authority and constituency files produces a commercial figure for all 361 local and unitary authorities and all 650 Westminster constituencies - the commercial picture nobody publishes at that level. The derived rows sum back to Ofcom's published UK totals exactly, from each geography independently. The gap is a consistent national and urban pattern but it is not universal: in 10 authorities and 27 constituencies, commercial premises are better served than homes.","findings":{"local_authorities":{"geography":"local authority","n":361,"commercial_premises_min":589,"commercial_premises_median":4208,"commercial_premises_max":36625,"smallest_area_name":"ISLES OF SCILLY","meets_size_floor":340,"below_size_floor":21,"size_floor":2000,"areas_where_commercial_premises_fare_better_than_homes":10,"widest_gap_pp":71.25,"narrowest_gap_pp":-6.2,"denominator_note":"n = 361 areas. Counts of areas, not of premises. The size floor of 2,000 commercial premises is published so that no percentage computed on a tiny premise base is treated as a finding."},"westminster_constituencies":{"geography":"Westminster constituency","n":650,"commercial_premises_min":965,"commercial_premises_median":2845.5,"commercial_premises_max":31148,"smallest_area_name":"SHEFFIELD HALLAM","meets_size_floor":570,"below_size_floor":80,"size_floor":2000,"areas_where_commercial_premises_fare_better_than_homes":27,"widest_gap_pp":63.89,"narrowest_gap_pp":-14.09,"denominator_note":"n = 650 areas. Counts of areas, not of premises. The size floor of 2,000 commercial premises is published so that no percentage computed on a tiny premise base is treated as a finding."},"widest_gaps":{"local_authority":[{"ons_code":"E07000073","area_name":"HARLOW","nation":"England","commercial_premises":2342,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":1791,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":76.47,"residential_premises":40139,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":5.22,"gap_pp":71.25,"small_n":false},{"ons_code":"E06000004","area_name":"STOCKTON-ON-TEES","nation":"England","commercial_premises":4821,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":3130,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":64.92,"residential_premises":88791,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":4.92,"gap_pp":60,"small_n":false},{"ons_code":"E07000226","area_name":"CRAWLEY","nation":"England","commercial_premises":3154,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":2054,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":65.12,"residential_premises":47207,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":5.18,"gap_pp":59.94,"small_n":false},{"ons_code":"E08000037","area_name":"GATESHEAD","nation":"England","commercial_premises":6678,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":3960,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":59.3,"residential_premises":96633,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":7.24,"gap_pp":52.06,"small_n":false},{"ons_code":"E06000020","area_name":"TELFORD 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CONSETT","nation":"England","commercial_premises":2656,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":1928,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":72.59,"residential_premises":44660,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":15.14,"gap_pp":57.45,"small_n":false},{"ons_code":"E14001267","area_name":"HARLOW","nation":"England","commercial_premises":3335,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit":2068,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":62.01,"residential_premises":47813,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":7.05,"gap_pp":54.96,"small_n":false}],"rule":"Ranked only among areas with at least 2,000 commercial premises (340 of 361 authorities, 570 of 650 constituencies). A low percentage in a tiny premise base is noise, so the floor is published rather than applied quietly."}},"ranking_rule":"Ranked only among areas with at least 2,000 commercial premises (340 of 361 authorities, 570 of 650 constituencies). A low percentage in a tiny premise base is noise, so the floor is published rather than applied quietly."},{"id":"unmatched-bound","heading":"The number that could undo this, and how far it moves it","lead":"Ofcom cannot match every premise to a provider record. Unmatched premises are unclassified and are not counted as gigabit-capable, which means they push the shortfall up. That would matter if the two segments were unmatched at the same rate, and they are not: 1.551% of commercial premises are unmatched against 0.213% of homes, an asymmetry of 7.29 times. So the bound is published rather than the caveat, and it is published twice. Assume every unmatched premise on both sides turns out to be gigabit-capable after all and the commercial shortfall falls from 29.48% to 27.93%, the residential from 11.08% to 10.86%, and the gap from 18.40pp to 17.07pp. That is the most generous reading of the coverage data, but it is not the hardest test of this finding, because it moves both segments at once. The hardest test moves only the commercial side: assume every unmatched commercial premise is gigabit-capable and leave the homes exactly as Ofcom counts them, and the gap is 16.85pp. Both are in the table. The finding survives the harder of the two assumptions as well as the more generous one. Both bear only on how unmatched premises are treated; neither tests anything else about the measure.","findings":{"what_unmatched_means":"Ofcom's own definition of its matched-premises column is “Count of all premises that could be matched to at least one fixed provider record with a non-zero predicted download speed. Unmatched premises are unclassified” (Ofcom, About this data - fixed coverage and full-fibre take-up (v2)). Unclassified premises are not counted as gigabit-capable, and they stay in the premise base as part of the denominator, so they sit inside the published shortfall.","commercial_premises_unmatched":31608,"commercial_premises_unmatched_pct":1.551,"residential_premises_unmatched":64811,"residential_premises_unmatched_pct":0.213,"asymmetry_ratio":7.29,"cross_check_against_published_all_premises_unclassified":{"commercial_plus_residential":96419,"ofcom_published_all_premises_unclassified":96419,"difference":0},"central_estimate":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":29.48,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":11.08,"gap_pp":18.4,"ratio":2.66,"assumption":"Unmatched premises are not gigabit-capable, which is how Ofcom's own published percentages treat them."},"bound_if_every_unmatched_premise_is_capable":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":27.93,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":10.86,"gap_pp":17.07,"ratio":2.57,"assumption":"Every unmatched premise, commercial and residential alike, is assumed to be gigabit-capable after all. This is the most generous reading of the coverage data as a whole. It is not the hardest test of this study's finding, because it moves both segments at once; the row below is."},"bound_if_only_commercial_unmatched_are_capable":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":27.93,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":11.08,"gap_pp":16.85,"ratio":2.52,"assumption":"Every unmatched commercial premise is assumed to be gigabit-capable after all, while the residential premises are left exactly as Ofcom counts them. Because the commercial unmatched rate is several times the residential one, this asymmetric case - not the symmetric one above - is the reading that works hardest against the finding."},"which_bound_binds":"The asymmetric case. It is the smaller of the two gaps, so it is the one a sceptical reader should be given, and it is the one this study treats as the test its finding has to survive.","conclusion":"The commercial unmatched rate is 7.29 times the residential one, so the asymmetry is real and is published here as a bound rather than mentioned as a caveat. Assume every unmatched premise on both sides is gigabit-capable after all and the gap narrows from 18.40pp to 17.07pp. Take the harder case - every unmatched commercial premise gigabit-capable, the residential ones left as Ofcom counts them - and it narrows to 16.85pp. The finding does not rest on how unmatched premises are treated under either assumption."}},{"id":"six-months","heading":"Six months of movement","lead":"Against the July 2025 snapshot, the commercial shortfall fell from 32.01% to 29.48%, -2.53 percentage points. The residential shortfall fell from 12.87% to 11.08%. In percentage points the gap narrowed, from 19.14pp to 18.40pp. In relative terms it widened, from 2.49 times to 2.66 times, because the residential share fell by proportionally more than the commercial share did. Both readings are given here because reporting only the first would flatter the change. These are two snapshots six months apart, not a trend. No direction is projected forward, and the next release may move either reading either way.","findings":{"from":"July 2025","to":"January 2026","interval":"six months","anchor":"The 650 Westminster constituency codes, which are identical in both releases. The 361 local authorities join on code once two recoded authorities are mapped (Barnsley E08000016 to E08000038, Sheffield E08000019 to E08000039).","commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct_jul2025":32.01,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct_jan2026":29.48,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct_change_pp":-2.53,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_jul2025":649239,"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_jan2026":600791,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct_jul2025":12.87,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct_jan2026":11.08,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct_change_pp":-1.79,"gap_pp_jul2025":19.14,"gap_pp_jan2026":18.4,"gap_pp_change":-0.74,"ratio_jul2025":2.49,"ratio_jan2026":2.66,"commercial_premise_base_jul2025":2028083,"commercial_premise_base_jan2026":2037917,"commercial_premise_base_change":9834,"commercial_unmatched_jul2025":24991,"commercial_unmatched_jan2026":31608,"commercial_unmatched_change_pct":26.48,"series_break":"The premise base is rebuilt from a refreshed AddressBase at each snapshot: the UK commercial premise base moves from 2,028,083 to 2,037,917. This is a change in the published measure over six months, not a tracked set of the same premises. The two releases also differ in column names, and the July 2025 'below the USO' columns are replaced in January 2026 by 'unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or FWA'; neither column is used here.","honest_reading":"The shortfall narrowed in percentage points but widened in relative terms: a commercial premise went from 2.49 times as likely as a home to be without a gigabit option, to 2.66 times as likely, because residential coverage improved from a much higher base."}},{"id":"not-a-count-of-firms","heading":"What a commercial premise is, and what it is not","lead":"A commercial premise is what is left when Ofcom's residential-only count is taken away from its all-premises count. It is dominated by the properties Ordnance Survey AddressBase classifies with a code beginning 'C', but Ofcom's premise base also admits dual-use property, places of worship, stately homes and mail-only addressees, and Ofcom publishes only two premise types, so those records must sit in one of the two and Ofcom does not publish which. It is a class of property, and this study is a count of premises. It is not a count of trading organisations and must not be read as one. Ofcom counts firms a different way - an address match to the Dun & Bradstreet Business Universe - and gets a different, higher coverage figure. Of that difference Ofcom says only that “Coverage remains highest for micro businesses, which are often based in residential areas and can make use of residential services”. Being based in a residential area is not the same as holding an address AddressBase classifies as residential, and Ofcom publishes no figure for how many trading premises sit in the residential count; that some do is this study's inference from Ofcom's sentence, and it is deliberately not quantified. The two measures answer different questions and neither contradicts the other.","findings":{"ofcom_commercial_premise_gigabit_pct_jul2025":{"pct":67.99,"denominator":2028083,"denominator_label":"2,028,083 commercial premises, July 2025","small_n":false},"ofcom_sme_gigabit_pct_jul2025":{"pct":84,"denominator_label":"Ofcom's matched SME population of roughly 2.5 million records, July 2025","how_counted":"An address match to the Dun & Bradstreet Business Universe, constrained to the records that fall inside Ofcom's own premise base.","source":"Ofcom, Connected Nations UK report 2025, Tables 2.3 and 2.4, page 10","small_n":false,"note":"A different population counted a different way. Quoted here precisely so that the commercial premise figure is not mistaken for it."}}}],"caveats":["A commercial premise is a property classification in Ordnance Survey AddressBase — not a trading organisation, a company or a workplace. The class can hold an empty unit, a lock-up, a storage building or a utility structure as readily as an office, a shop or a factory, and Ofcom publishes no breakdown of it. Every figure here counts premises. One organisation may occupy many premises, or none, and a premise counted here may have nobody in it.","The national and per-nation commercial figures, including the urban/rural split, are Ofcom's own published numbers. This study credits them to Ofcom. Only the 1,011 sub-national figures, the proof of the subtraction, the unmatched bound and the side-by-side comparison are this study's work.","Coverage is availability, not installed service or take-up. It measures whether an end user could order a service.","Ofcom's coverage data covers broadband products only. Ofcom's own methodology says that dedicated leased lines are not included in its coverage data; other dedicated circuits are outside a broadband coverage measure too, but that is our reading and not Ofcom's wording. A commercial premise counted here as unable to order a gigabit broadband connection may hold a leased line. No correction is attempted, because per-premise leased-line availability and take-up are not published and any adjustment would be an unbounded guess.","Unmatched premises are unclassified and are not counted as gigabit-capable. The commercial unmatched rate is several times the residential rate, so the effect is quantified rather than left as a caveat, and it is quantified twice: once assuming every unmatched premise on both sides is gigabit-capable after all, and once assuming only the commercial ones are, which is the harder case for this study's own finding.","Ofcom's premise base admits classifications for dual-use property, places of worship, stately homes and mail-only addressees. Ofcom reports only two premise types and the split is exhaustive, so the commercial figure is the complement of the residential one and is not confined to purely commercial property. Ofcom does not publish how those records are allocated, so this is stated and not quantified.","Rurality is published only at UK and nation level. There is no urban or rural split for any local authority or Westminster constituency, so none is given.","The gap is not universal. In some areas commercial premises are better served than homes.","No ranking appears without the published size floor of 2,000 commercial premises. A low percentage in a tiny premise base is noise, not a finding.","The premise base is rebuilt from a refreshed AddressBase at each snapshot, so the six-month change is a change in the published measure rather than a tracked panel of the same premises.","The commercial unclassified count rose sharply over the six months against a premise base that barely moved, which is a further reason to read the change alongside the bound.","Percentages here are recomputed from Ofcom's premise counts, not taken from Ofcom's own rounded percentage column, so they can differ in the last decimal place. Ratios are computed from the counts for the same reason. The percentage-point gaps are the exception: those are the difference of the two percentage columns as published, so that the subtraction can be checked on the numbers as printed.","Ofcom's own headline gigabit figures are residential. Where a widely quoted UK gigabit percentage appears without a qualifier, it is almost always the residential one.","Ofcom's own term is 'gigabit-capable' coverage of 'broadband products'. The phrase 'mass-market' does not appear anywhere in Ofcom's material for this release and is not used here; if a page or a summary reaches for it, it is a gloss of ours and must not be attributed to Ofcom.","This is the January 2026 snapshot. The next Connected Nations release is expected around November 2026 and will supersede it. Refresh this page then, or date it clearly.","Ofcom's licence wording names the Open Government Licence without a version number. It is quoted exactly and is not resolved to a version on Ofcom's behalf."],"method":{"what_was_measured":"The difference between Ofcom's all-premises and residential-only fixed broadband coverage files, which is the commercial premise base, at every geography Ofcom publishes.","when":"Ofcom's January 2026 snapshot, published in the Spring 2026 release, compared against the July 2025 snapshot. Both archives downloaded 2026-09-29.","how":["Both Ofcom archives were downloaded once with an identifying user agent, hashed, and stored. robots.txt was fetched and kept as evidence; nothing disallowed was requested.","The identity Commercial = All minus Residential was tested against Ofcom's own published commercial figures on every cell it publishes, in both releases, before anything was derived. It holds exactly, to the unit.","The same subtraction was applied to every local-authority and constituency row in both releases. Joins between the all-premises and residential files are complete.","The derived rows were summed back to Ofcom's published UK totals from each geography independently, for premise base, gigabit count and unmatched count.","The six-month change is anchored on the constituency codes, which are unchanged between releases; two recoded local authorities are joined on an explicit code map.","Every percentage is recomputed from premise counts rather than read from Ofcom's rounded percentage column."],"denominators":"Every percentage is against that segment's own premise base, stated beside it. Commercial percentages never use the all-premises base, and vice versa.","small_n_rule":"No percentage is printed on a denominator below 10. Where one would be, the cell is left empty in the CSV and the area is listed here.","small_n_audit":{"rule":"No percentage is printed on a denominator below 10. Where one would be, the cell is left empty in the CSV and the area is listed here.","areas_with_commercial_premises_below_threshold":[],"count":0,"smallest_commercial_premise_base_in_the_dataset":589,"note":"The smallest commercial premise base anywhere in the 1,011 areas is 589, so no percentage in this study is computed on fewer than 10 units. The rule is enforced in code all the same."},"personal_data":"None is present in the source and none is published. All figures are area totals.","no_outbound_contact":"No email, enquiry, survey or notice was sent to anyone. Everything here comes from already-published data.","no_scraping":"No vendor or retailer store was touched. No price or stock figure appears anywhere.","reproducibility":"scripts/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026/analyse.py makes no network request. It re-hashes both archives, reads the CSVs straight out of them, and rewrites the dataset, the README and this file. Re-running it must reproduce the CSV and README byte-for-byte.","encodings":{"202601_fixed_coverage_UK_and_nations_r1.csv":"utf-8-sig","202507_fixed_coverage_UK_and_nations_r01.csv":"utf-8-sig","202601_fixed_laua_coverage_r1.csv":"utf-8-sig","202601_fixed_laua_res_coverage_r1.csv":"utf-8-sig","202601_fixed_pcon_coverage_r1.csv":"cp1252","202601_fixed_pcon_res_coverage_r1.csv":"cp1252","202507_fixed_laua_coverage_r01.csv":"utf-8-sig","202507_fixed_laua_res_coverage_r01.csv":"utf-8-sig","202507_fixed_pcon_coverage_r01.csv":"cp1252","202507_fixed_pcon_res_coverage_r01.csv":"cp1252"}},"sources":[{"id":"cn-spring-2026","title":"Connected Nations update: Spring 2026 - fixed coverage and full-fibre take-up data","publisher":"Ofcom","snapshot":"January 2026","landing_page":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/connected-nations-update-spring-2026","file":"202601_fixed_broadband_coverage_and_full_fibre_take-up-r1.zip","bytes":33797696,"sha256":"0ddc33723e345d86ba25d7528d272f6fe12aef5d21d2e3adefdcaa53711c76f3","retrieved":"2026-09-29","licence_wording_verbatim":"We are providing this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence, which gives users various freedoms about how they choose to use the data, subject to conditions.","licence_version":null,"licence_note":"Ofcom names the Open Government Licence without a version number. 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Ofcom's correction of 07/07/2026 covers the 121 all-premises postcode files only, none of which this study uses."},{"id":"cn-2025","title":"Connected Nations 2025 - fixed broadband coverage data","publisher":"Ofcom","snapshot":"July 2025","landing_page":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/connected-nations-20252/data-downloads-2025","file":"202507_fixed_broadband_coverage_r01.zip","bytes":34560099,"sha256":"b128f5423ad7bc0d89be6865ac18c753f0ade66486e4f92ebca31b9728d58f9a","retrieved":"2026-09-29","licence_wording_verbatim":"We are providing this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence, which gives users various freedoms about how they choose to use the data, subject to conditions.","licence_version":null,"attribution_condition":"The material must be acknowledged as Ofcom copyright and the title of the document/publication specified.","used_for":"The six-month comparison."},{"id":"about-this-data-2026","title":"About this data - fixed coverage and full-fibre take-up (v2)","publisher":"Ofcom","retrieved":"2026-09-29","url":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-spring-2026/about-this-data-fixed-broadband-coverage-and-full-fibre-take-up-2026.pdf","licence_wording_verbatim":"We are providing this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence, which gives users various freedoms about how they choose to use the data, subject to conditions.","attribution_condition":"The material must be acknowledged as Ofcom copyright and the title of the document/publication specified.","used_for":"Definitions of premise type, gigabit availability and the unmatched category; the licence wording itself; the reissue notice."},{"id":"cn-2025-methodology-annex","title":"Connected Nations 2025: Methodology annex","publisher":"Ofcom","retrieved":"2026-09-29","url":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-2025/cn2025---methodology-annex.pdf","bytes":427831,"licence_wording_verbatim":null,"licence_note":"This document carries no licence statement of its own. The sentence quoted for the data releases appears only in Ofcom's 'About this data' documents, so it is not repeated here. Ofcom's site terms of use, and the attribution condition quoted beside this entry, apply.","attribution_condition":"The material must be acknowledged as Ofcom copyright and the title of the document/publication specified.","used_for":"The AddressBase classification codes behind the premise base; Ofcom's statement that it normally reports residential coverage; how Ofcom counts firms differently; the leased-line exclusion; the third-party attributions Ofcom's SME source carries."},{"id":"cn-uk-report-2025","title":"Connected Nations UK report 2025","publisher":"Ofcom","retrieved":"2026-09-29","url":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-2025/connected-nations-uk-report-2025.pdf","bytes":3557187,"licence_wording_verbatim":null,"licence_note":"This document carries no licence statement of its own. The sentence quoted for the data releases appears only in Ofcom's 'About this data' documents, so it is not repeated here. Ofcom's site terms of use, and the attribution condition quoted beside this entry, apply.","attribution_condition":"The material must be acknowledged as Ofcom copyright and the title of the document/publication specified.","used_for":"Ofcom's published SME coverage figures (Table 2.3, page 10), quoted so the two measures are not confused; the leased-line exclusion."},{"id":"cn-spring-2026-update-tables","title":"Connected Nations Spring 2026 update tables","publisher":"Ofcom","retrieved":"2026-09-29","url":"https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-spring-2026/connected-nations-spring-2026-update-tables.xlsx","bytes":30619,"licence_wording_verbatim":null,"licence_note":"This document carries no licence statement of its own. The sentence quoted for the data releases appears only in Ofcom's 'About this data' documents, so it is not repeated here. Ofcom's site terms of use, and the attribution condition quoted beside this entry, apply.","attribution_condition":"The material must be acknowledged as Ofcom copyright and the title of the document/publication specified.","used_for":"The workbook's statement, made of its fixed-line availability tables, that all figures refer to availability at residential properties only - and its separate statements that its take-up and decent-broadband tables are for all premises."}],"disagreements":[{"about":"Ofcom's commercial-premise coverage against Ofcom's own SME coverage","positions":[{"source":"Ofcom, fixed coverage data files, commercial premise classification","figure":"68.0% of commercial premises gigabit-capable at July 2025"},{"source":"Ofcom, Connected Nations UK report 2025, Tables 2.3 and 2.4, page 10","figure":"84% of SMEs gigabit-capable at July 2025"}],"resolution":"Both are Ofcom's and both are correct. They count different populations by different methods: a property classification in AddressBase against an address match to a commercial register. This study reports the premise figure and names the other so the two are not confused. No winner is picked."},{"about":"The upper-bound gap when unmatched premises are assumed gigabit-capable","positions":[{"source":"one data-collection stream of this study, moving only the commercial unmatched premises","figure":"16.85pp"},{"source":"a second, independently written stream, moving both segments","figure":"17.07pp"}],"resolution":"Recomputed here from Ofcom's published counts: (600,791 - 31,608) / 2,037,917 = 27.93%, and (3,373,668 - 64,811) / 30,455,777 = 10.86%, giving 17.07pp. Neither stream was wrong. They applied different assumptions: the higher figure moves both segments, the lower moves only the commercial one and leaves the homes as Ofcom counts them. The lower is the harder case for this study's finding, so rather than pick a winner the page now publishes both, each with its assumption named, and says which one binds."},{"about":"The landing-page URLs recorded in the study brief","positions":[{"source":"the study brief","figure":"/research-and-data/multi-sector-research/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-spring-2026"},{"source":"Ofcom's live site, fetched 2026-09-29","figure":"/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/connected-nations-update-spring-2026"}],"resolution":"Ofcom restructured its site; the brief's URLs redirect and then 404. The working URLs are cited throughout and the archived landing pages are held as evidence. The data files themselves are unaffected and match their expected byte counts and hashes."},{"about":"Ofcom's own documentation against Ofcom's own data","positions":[{"source":"Ofcom, About this data (v2)","figure":"the constituency name column is 'parl_const_name'"},{"source":"202601_fixed_pcon_coverage_r1.csv","figure":"the column is actually 'parliamentary_constituency_name'"}],"resolution":"The file wins, because the file is what anyone parses. Reported so that a reader reproducing this work is not caught by it."}],"prior_art":[{"who":"Ofcom","what":"Publishes the commercial premise counts and gigabit counts for the UK and the four nations, split urban and rural, as columns in its fixed coverage data file.","how_ours_differs":"We derive the same figure for 361 local authorities and 650 Westminster constituencies, which Ofcom does not publish at any geography below nation level, and we prove the subtraction before using it."},{"who":"Ofcom","what":"Publishes SME gigabit and full-fibre coverage by nation, urban/rural and size band, using an address match to the Dun & Bradstreet Business Universe.","how_ours_differs":"A different population and a different method, giving a different and higher figure. We report the premise measure and name Ofcom's other measure beside it rather than blending them."},{"who":"Ofcom","what":"Its headline gigabit and full-fibre coverage reporting, which is residential only and says so.","how_ours_differs":"We place the commercial figure next to the residential one, which is the comparison the separate publication of the two files makes possible, and which we found no published example of in the surfaces we checked."},{"who":"Office for National Statistics, Explore local statistics","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/indicators/gigabit-capable-broadband","what":"Publishes a 'Gigabit capable broadband' indicator - 'the percentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)' - for lower tier and unitary authorities, from Ofcom's own January 2026 snapshot, published 13 May 2026 under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — the ONS's own licence statement, not Ofcom's, which names no version. It is the same snapshot and one of the two geographies used here.","how_ours_differs":"It is an all-premises figure and does not distinguish residential from commercial, which is the whole of what this study adds. We also cover Westminster constituencies, which it does not, and publish the residential figure beside the commercial one so the two can be compared. Retrieved 29 September 2026 and archived with this study."},{"who":"Others","what":"Two third-party sites that publish constituency-level broadband material were checked. Both returned HTTP 403 to an identifying client, which was treated as a signal not to fetch, and no further request was made.","how_ours_differs":"Their contents are unverified and are therefore not characterised here, in either direction. This is a limit of the prior-art search, recorded rather than papered over. No figure in this study depends on them."}],"novelty":{"claim":"Ofcom publishes the commercial premise figures for the UK and the four nations. We found no published commercial-premises coverage figure for any local authority or Westminster constituency in the surfaces we checked, because Ofcom publishes no commercial file and no premise-type column at those levels.","basis":"What was checked: Ofcom's own downloadable file inventory and the archive member lists, which at every sub-national level publish exactly two files, all premises and residential only; and the nearest third-party publication, the ONS Explore local statistics gigabit indicator, which carries the same Ofcom snapshot at lower-tier authority level for all premises with no premise-type split. What was not checked: Ofcom's interactive report, which its release footnote says also carries all-premises coverage data, and two third-party sites that returned HTTP 403 and were left alone.","not_claimed":"Not described as a first. The national figure is Ofcom's and is credited as such. Nothing here is claimed about the surfaces that were not checked."},"refresh":{"next_release_expected":"around November 2026","action":"Refresh from the new release or date the page clearly to the January 2026 snapshot. The dataset and README carry the same 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A low percentage in a tiny premise base is noise, so the floor is published rather than applied quietly."},"unmatched_bound":{"what_unmatched_means":"Ofcom's own definition of its matched-premises column is “Count of all premises that could be matched to at least one fixed provider record with a non-zero predicted download speed. Unmatched premises are unclassified” (Ofcom, About this data - fixed coverage and full-fibre take-up (v2)). Unclassified premises are not counted as gigabit-capable, and they stay in the premise base as part of the denominator, so they sit inside the published shortfall.","commercial_premises_unmatched":31608,"commercial_premises_unmatched_pct":1.551,"residential_premises_unmatched":64811,"residential_premises_unmatched_pct":0.213,"asymmetry_ratio":7.29,"cross_check_against_published_all_premises_unclassified":{"commercial_plus_residential":96419,"ofcom_published_all_premises_unclassified":96419,"difference":0},"central_estimate":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":29.48,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":11.08,"gap_pp":18.4,"ratio":2.66,"assumption":"Unmatched premises are not gigabit-capable, which is how Ofcom's own published percentages treat them."},"bound_if_every_unmatched_premise_is_capable":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":27.93,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":10.86,"gap_pp":17.07,"ratio":2.57,"assumption":"Every unmatched premise, commercial and residential alike, is assumed to be gigabit-capable after all. This is the most generous reading of the coverage data as a whole. It is not the hardest test of this study's finding, because it moves both segments at once; the row below is."},"bound_if_only_commercial_unmatched_are_capable":{"commercial_premises_without_gigabit_pct":27.93,"residential_premises_without_gigabit_pct":11.08,"gap_pp":16.85,"ratio":2.52,"assumption":"Every unmatched commercial premise is assumed to be gigabit-capable after all, while the residential premises are left exactly as Ofcom counts them. Because the commercial unmatched rate is several times the residential one, this asymmetric case - not the symmetric one above - is the reading that works hardest against the finding."},"which_bound_binds":"The asymmetric case. It is the smaller of the two gaps, so it is the one a sceptical reader should be given, and it is the one this study treats as the test its finding has to survive.","conclusion":"The commercial unmatched rate is 7.29 times the residential one, so the asymmetry is real and is published here as a bound rather than mentioned as a caveat. Assume every unmatched premise on both sides is gigabit-capable after all and the gap narrows from 18.40pp to 17.07pp. Take the harder case - every unmatched commercial premise gigabit-capable, the residential ones left as Ofcom counts them - and it narrows to 16.85pp. The finding does not rest on how unmatched premises are treated under either assumption."},"six_month_change":{"from":"July 2025","to":"January 2026","interval":"six months","anchor":"The 650 Westminster constituency codes, which are identical in both releases. 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This is a change in the published measure over six months, not a tracked set of the same premises. The two releases also differ in column names, and the July 2025 'below the USO' columns are replaced in January 2026 by 'unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or FWA'; neither column is used here.","honest_reading":"The shortfall narrowed in percentage points but widened in relative terms: a commercial premise went from 2.49 times as likely as a home to be without a gigabit option, to 2.66 times as likely, because residential coverage improved from a much higher base."}},"verification":{"rule":"Any pre-registered metric that does not reproduce within its stated tolerance is cut, not caveated. 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The script refuses to run if either differs.","Re-derive the subtraction identity from 202601_fixed_coverage_UK_and_nations_r1.csv and its July 2025 equivalent: for every combination of Location, Rurality and speed row, check that the All figure minus the Residential figure equals Ofcom's own published Commercial figure exactly. Any non-zero difference invalidates the study.","Re-derive all 361 local-authority and 650 constituency commercial figures from the paired all-premises and residential files, and confirm the joins are complete in both directions in both releases.","Sum the published CSV's commercial_premises, commercial_premises_with_gigabit and commercial_premises_unmatched columns over the 361 authority rows, and separately over the 650 constituency rows, and confirm each total equals Ofcom's published UK figure exactly.","Recompute every pre-registered metric from the published CSV or from Ofcom's national file using the recipe printed with it, and check each against the denominator printed beside it.","Confirm that no percentage anywhere in this file is reported on a denominator below 10 without a small_n flag, and that the small-n audit block lists every such case.","Recompute the upper bound independently: subtract the unmatched count from the shortfall for BOTH segments, not just the commercial one. The two figures that circulated internally differ for exactly this reason, and the disagreement is recorded in the disagreements block.","Check the six-month change is anchored on codes that exist in both releases, that the two recoded local authorities are joined by the published code map, and that no area is silently dropped.","Audit the prose: confirm the word meaning a trading organisation appears nowhere in a column header, headline, chart label or finding, except where it names Ofcom's separate SME measure and says so.","Confirm the national and per-nation figures, including the urban/rural cut, are credited to Ofcom everywhere they appear, and that the study claims only the sub-national derivation, the gate, the bound and the comparison.","Confirm Ofcom's licence wording is quoted exactly and is nowhere rendered as a versioned Open Government Licence.","Confirm no ranking appears without the published size floor, and that the floor and the number of areas it keeps are stated on the page.","Confirm the CSV contains no personal data, no address, no postcode-level record and no price or stock figure.","Re-run the builder and confirm the CSV and README come back byte-identical to the recorded sha256 values, and this file byte-identical apart from its built timestamp."]},"series_and_revisions":{"premise_base_rebuilt_each_release":"The premise base is rebuilt from a refreshed AddressBase at each snapshot: the UK commercial premise base moves from 2,028,083 to 2,037,917. This is a change in the published measure over six months, not a tracked set of the same premises. The two releases also differ in column names, and the July 2025 'below the USO' columns are replaced in January 2026 by 'unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or FWA'; neither column is used here.","area_names_case_changed":"The January 2026 release upper-cases every area name; July 2025 does not. All 361 authority names and all 650 constituency names differ by case, so every join here is on ONS code.","local_authority_recodes":[{"area":"Barnsley","july_2025":"E08000016","january_2026":"E08000038"},{"area":"Sheffield","july_2025":"E08000019","january_2026":"E08000039"}],"column_renames":[{"july_2025":"parl_const_name","january_2026":"parliamentary_constituency_name"},{"july_2025":"% of premises below the USO","january_2026":"% of premises unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or FWA","used_here":false},{"july_2025":"Number of premises below the USO","january_2026":"Number of premises unable to receive decent broadband from fixed or FWA","used_here":false}],"encodings":"The constituency CSVs are Windows-1252 in both releases; the local-authority and national CSVs are UTF-8.","reissue":"The Spring 2026 archive is a reissue (v2) dated 07/07/2026, correcting two duplicated all-premises postcode files and renaming all 121 of them. This study uses no postcode file, so no figure is touched.","cumulative_speed_bands":"Ofcom's national speed rows are cumulative thresholds and 'Unclassified' is a separate row, not a band. They do not sum to the premise base and are never added here."},"caveats":["A commercial premise is a property classification in Ordnance Survey AddressBase, not a trading organisation. Every figure here counts premises. One organisation may occupy many premises, or none.","The national and per-nation commercial figures, including the urban/rural split, are Ofcom's own published numbers. This study credits them to Ofcom. Only the 1,011 sub-national figures, the proof of the subtraction, the unmatched bound and the side-by-side comparison are this study's work.","Coverage is availability, not installed service or take-up. It measures whether an end user could order a service.","Ofcom's coverage data covers broadband products only. Ofcom's own methodology says that dedicated leased lines are not included in its coverage data; other dedicated circuits are outside a broadband coverage measure too, but that is our reading and not Ofcom's wording. A commercial premise counted here as unable to order a gigabit broadband connection may hold a leased line. No correction is attempted, because per-premise leased-line availability and take-up are not published and any adjustment would be an unbounded guess.","Unmatched premises are unclassified and are not counted as gigabit-capable. The commercial unmatched rate is several times the residential rate, so the effect is quantified rather than left as a caveat, and it is quantified twice: once assuming every unmatched premise on both sides is gigabit-capable after all, and once assuming only the commercial ones are, which is the harder case for this study's own finding.","Ofcom's premise base admits classifications for dual-use property, places of worship, stately homes and mail-only addressees. Ofcom reports only two premise types and the split is exhaustive, so the commercial figure is the complement of the residential one and is not confined to purely commercial property. Ofcom does not publish how those records are allocated, so this is stated and not quantified.","Rurality is published only at UK and nation level. There is no urban or rural split for any local authority or Westminster constituency, so none is given.","The gap is not universal. In some areas commercial premises are better served than homes.","No ranking appears without the published size floor of 2,000 commercial premises. A low percentage in a tiny premise base is noise, not a finding.","The premise base is rebuilt from a refreshed AddressBase at each snapshot, so the six-month change is a change in the published measure rather than a tracked panel of the same premises.","The commercial unclassified count rose sharply over the six months against a premise base that barely moved, which is a further reason to read the change alongside the bound.","Percentages here are recomputed from Ofcom's premise counts, not taken from Ofcom's own rounded percentage column, so they can differ in the last decimal place. Ratios are computed from the counts for the same reason. The percentage-point gaps are the exception: those are the difference of the two percentage columns as published, so that the subtraction can be checked on the numbers as printed.","Ofcom's own headline gigabit figures are residential. Where a widely quoted UK gigabit percentage appears without a qualifier, it is almost always the residential one.","Ofcom's own term is 'gigabit-capable' coverage of 'broadband products'. The phrase 'mass-market' does not appear anywhere in Ofcom's material for this release and is not used here; if a page or a summary reaches for it, it is a gloss of ours and must not be attributed to Ofcom.","This is the January 2026 snapshot. The next Connected Nations release is expected around November 2026 and will supersede it. Refresh this page then, or date it clearly.","Ofcom's licence wording names the Open Government Licence without a version number. It is quoted exactly and is not resolved to a version on Ofcom's behalf."],"disagreements":[{"about":"Ofcom's commercial-premise coverage against Ofcom's own SME coverage","positions":[{"source":"Ofcom, fixed coverage data files, commercial premise classification","figure":"68.0% of commercial premises gigabit-capable at July 2025"},{"source":"Ofcom, Connected Nations UK report 2025, Tables 2.3 and 2.4, page 10","figure":"84% of SMEs gigabit-capable at July 2025"}],"resolution":"Both are Ofcom's and both are correct. They count different populations by different methods: a property classification in AddressBase against an address match to a commercial register. This study reports the premise figure and names the other so the two are not confused. No winner is picked."},{"about":"The upper-bound gap when unmatched premises are assumed gigabit-capable","positions":[{"source":"one data-collection stream of this study, moving only the commercial unmatched premises","figure":"16.85pp"},{"source":"a second, independently written stream, moving both segments","figure":"17.07pp"}],"resolution":"Recomputed here from Ofcom's published counts: (600,791 - 31,608) / 2,037,917 = 27.93%, and (3,373,668 - 64,811) / 30,455,777 = 10.86%, giving 17.07pp. Neither stream was wrong. They applied different assumptions: the higher figure moves both segments, the lower moves only the commercial one and leaves the homes as Ofcom counts them. The lower is the harder case for this study's finding, so rather than pick a winner the page now publishes both, each with its assumption named, and says which one binds."},{"about":"The landing-page URLs recorded in the study brief","positions":[{"source":"the study brief","figure":"/research-and-data/multi-sector-research/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-spring-2026"},{"source":"Ofcom's live site, fetched 2026-09-29","figure":"/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/connected-nations-update-spring-2026"}],"resolution":"Ofcom restructured its site; the brief's URLs redirect and then 404. The working URLs are cited throughout and the archived landing pages are held as evidence. The data files themselves are unaffected and match their expected byte counts and hashes."},{"about":"Ofcom's own documentation against Ofcom's own data","positions":[{"source":"Ofcom, About this data (v2)","figure":"the constituency name column is 'parl_const_name'"},{"source":"202601_fixed_pcon_coverage_r1.csv","figure":"the column is actually 'parliamentary_constituency_name'"}],"resolution":"The file wins, because the file is what anyone parses. Reported so that a reader reproducing this work is not caught by it."}],"licence":{"source_wording_verbatim":"We are providing this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence, which gives users various freedoms about how they choose to use the data, subject to conditions.","source_version":null,"source_version_note":"Ofcom names the Open Government Licence without a version number. The National Archives publishes v1.0, v2.0 and v3.0; Ofcom does not say which applies, and this study does not resolve the ambiguity on Ofcom's behalf.","attribution_condition":"The material must be acknowledged as Ofcom copyright and the title of the document/publication specified.","credit_line":"Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations update: Spring 2026, fixed coverage and full-fibre take-up data (January 2026 snapshot), and Connected Nations 2025, fixed broadband coverage data (July 2025 snapshot). Ofcom copyright. Ofcom provides this data on an open basis via the Open Government Licence.","third_party_rights_inside_the_source":"Ofcom's premise base derives from Ordnance Survey AddressBase Premium and Islands. Ofcom's separate SME coverage figures, quoted here once so that the two measures are not confused, derive from the Dun & Bradstreet Business Universe, which Ofcom states it uses subject to three attributions: © Dun & Bradstreet Inc., 2025, all rights reserved; © Crown copyright, all rights reserved, licence number 10002057; and © CACI 2025. Those attributions are carried here for the same reason. This study uses only the aggregate premise counts Ofcom publishes, and reproduces no address, postcode-level or premise-level record.","derived_licence":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)","derived_licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","derived_attribution":"Servnet, The commercial gigabit gap, https://www.servnetuk.com/research/uk-commercial-gigabit-gap-2026. Derived from Ofcom Connected Nations data; Ofcom copyright."}}