94.5% of homes and businesses in the Derry City and Strabane council area can get full fibre broadband, above the UK figure of 81%. That's up 2.3 points in a year: 2,722 more premises can now order it. 438 still can't get 10 Mbit/s from a fixed line.
Fastest download speed available, share of all 69,311 premises (homes and businesses), January 2026.
Share of premises that can order full fibre (and gigabit, which also counts cable).
Full fibre Gigabit-capable (incl. cable)
| Derry | Northern Ireland | UK | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full fibre | 94.5% | 94% | 81% |
| Gigabit-capable | 94.9% | 94.9% | 87.8% |
| Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | 98.4% | 98.6% | 97.7% |
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.7% |
The Derry City and Strabane council area ranks 20th of 361 UK council areas for full fibre coverage (see all).
Average across each district's postcodes. Tap a column to sort.
| BT47 | 86% | 91% | 4.4% | 1292 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BT48 | 93% | 99% | 0.3% | 1122 |
94.5% of premises in the Derry City and Strabane council area could order full fibre in January 2026, and 94.9% could get gigabit speeds (full fibre or cable). Coverage varies street by street, so check your postcode.
Full fibre coverage in the Derry City and Strabane council area went from 92.2% in January 2025 to 94.5% in January 2026: 2,722 more premises.
438 premises in the Derry City and Strabane council area (0.6%) can't get 10 Mbit/s download speeds from a fixed line, and 149 can't get what Ofcom calls decent broadband from a fixed line or fixed wireless.
About 64% of premises that can get full fibre in the Derry City and Strabane council area have taken it up. The rest are still on older copper or cable lines, often paying similar prices for slower speeds.
Of the 2 postcode districts we cover for Derry, BT48 has the most gigabit coverage (93% on average) and BT47 the least (86%).
98.2% of premises in the Derry City and Strabane council area have outdoor 5G coverage from at least one mobile network (Ofcom, high-confidence predictions, January 2026). 4G indoors from all four networks reaches 78.4%.