BDUK Release UPRN Level Data for UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout
The Government’s executive Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has today published fresh data that reveals the current levels of broadband connectivity, future commercial plans for gigabit broadband, and any premises included in BDUK’s publicly funded interventions (e.g gigabit vouchers and Project Gigabit contracts) down to the individual premises (UPRN) level.
The data, which currently only covers England and Wales up to September 2024, does not contain comprehensive information on which premises have historically been delivered by BDUK through prior vouchers, Gigahubs and Superfast broadband schemes.
The information is also more intended for “technical users” and comes in a .CSV format (compressed in .ZIP archives), which makes it useful for mapping hobbyists, analysts, broadband suppliers, councils and so forth (i.e. it’s not really intended for wider consumption). Suffice to say that regular consumers, particularly those who may be unfamiliar with BDUK’s terminologies, may find it a bit tedious.
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The data can be found here, and we also recommend reading BDUK’s user guide for context. Take note that the Current/Future gigabit columns are not mutually exclusive to BDUK plans, so may reflect existing build or commercial roll-outs.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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This data and the format is very helpful, credit to BDUK for releasing it in this way. A disappointing story for us personally though – again. Years ago, Openreach built fibre to the end of our road and then stopped, so now we (along with several others along the road) are classified as gigabit white with absolutely no plans to build network infrastructure. We aren’t included in any project gigabit contracts and as a final kicker, we can’t access the vouchers either.
England & Wales only.. bah humbug. Come on DfE, get the NI data out!!
The data is misleading. It is suggesting that these premises have an existing Gigabit connection available. However although there are gigbit providers active in the vicinity, none of them are currently offering such services to purpose-built multi-occupancy buildings in the road – even to those of only a few floors.
It is ridiculous to have the ‘subsidy_control_status’ field combining premises that have and those that may have within three years ‘gigabit available’. These two cases should be broken out.
Shame the South East file is too big for Excel to open! Haven’t tried the others.
Most are likely too large for excel to put it into a workbook, but you can import parts of it using the data tab – “get & transform data”. There are online tools too for viewing large csv files.
I used pspg without any issues.
Seems to be missing loads of UPRNs in my street including mine so what does that mean for the missing ones?
I think Excel truncates the file. Try command line tools.
I did download the data for my region and did a quick analysis of the section of the data relating to my three local parishes, comparing with a previous UPRN data analysis I did about three years ago. There were a significant number of missing UPRN’s in the BDUK data, including my own property (which has only recently been improved from sub-10Mbps to around 18Mbps download. The upload speed is still 1.2Mbps.
BDUK need to do more analysis of the data before publication.
well, the data seems to confirm what we suspected. little to no prospect of ADSL1 being upgraded until sometime nearer 2030.. useful data, but a shame that we’re at the back of the queue again.
To save lots of people the hassle we have no added the extra information to our interactive map for OMR Status on thinkbroadband
https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/broadband-map#6/54.712/-1.494/omr/
You can search for a postcode which will give some postcode data, but once zoomed in enough the UPRN dots are clickable.
There is also a map layer showing the addresses that have a contract status.