Sky Broadband UK’s Position on Openreach Speeds Beyond 900Mbps

A couple of Sky Broadband’s customers have recently notified us that their 900Mbps full fibre (FTTP) package on Openreach’s national network suddenly started delivering speeds of up to nearly 1.8Gbps, which is despite such a tier being unavailable to Sky’s subscribers. But those hoping for the launch of faster packages via the same network may be left disappointed, at least for now.

The download speed of 1.8Gbps is the fastest currently available to consumers via Openreach’s national network, although Sky only sell speeds up to an average of 900Mbps (1Gbps). Customers can get faster speeds on the CityFibre side of Sky’s network (up to 5Gbps), but that’s different.

Still, the fact that a tiny number of customers suddenly appear to see much faster speeds did initially seem to suggest that Sky Broadband might be preparing new packages for launch in the near future. Sadly, a spokesperson for Sky informed ISPreview that they weren’t currently running any trials that would explain it, although they did say this: “From time to time, there can be small anomalies in what we’re able to offer“.

ISPreview queried whether Sky had any plans to launch Openreach-based packages at speeds beyond the current 900Mbps (average) maximum within the next few months, but Sky told us they had “nothing further to share on this at the moment.” However, it’s perhaps not unrealistic to expect that this might change in 2027, particularly as Openreach may conclude their current pilot of speeds up to 8.5Gbps in that same year (here and here).