July 2026: Premises contracted and built under Project Gigabit contracts
Updated 20 July 2026
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1. 1. Overview
Building Digital UK (BDUK) publishes monthly contract-level data on the progress of its Project Gigabit contracts.
The contracted premises data only includes premises in the initial scope of contracts; there may also be deferred scope premises that are not reflected here. “CO” refers to Type C Call Off contracts.
These figures are not directly comparable to the figures published in its official statistics releases; they track the number of contracted premises to which the supplier has delivered a gigabit-capable connection, whereas the official statistics report on the number of premises that have received a gigabit-capable connection as a result of BDUK subsidy.
This table is a snapshot of data held by BDUK on 16 July. There is a variable time lag between contract signature/delivery and data ingestion by BDUK, so the figures below should not be used to assess whether contractual milestones have been met.
For further information on data processing of management information at BDUK, please refer to the UPRN level release user guide and technical note for premises in BDUK plans.
The data is rounded to the nearest 10 and numbers may not sum due to rounding.
If you have any questions, you can contact bduk.statistics@dsit.gov.uk
2. Project Gigabit Contracts
Table 1: Initial scope premises contracted and delivered by contract
| Contract | Supplier | Contracted premises | Built contracted premises |
| Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes | CityFibre | 5,890 | 4,820 |
| Bucks, Herts and East of Berks | CityFibre | 6,090 | 4,050 |
| CO1 Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire | Openreach | 60,180 | 17,170 |
| CO2 Devon, Mid Wales and South East Wales | Openreach | 41,140 | 10,600 |
| CO3 North Herefordshire, North Wales, Shropshire and South West Wales | Openreach | 65,120 | 2,570 |
| CO4 South Devon, Mid Devon and North Somerset | Openreach | 37,110 | 3,840 |
| CO5 Essex and North East England | Openreach | 35,300 | 2,260 |
| CO6 Rest of Scotland | Openreach | 77,640 | 5,680 |
| CO7 Worcestershire | Openreach | 22,980 | 1,010 |
| CO8 Cheshire | Openreach | 18,460 | 0 |
| Cambridgeshire | CityFibre | 18,230 | 12,030 |
| Central Cornwall | Wildanet | 6,940 | 6,940 |
| Cornwall and Isle of Scilly | Wildanet | 14,430 | 4,190 |
| Cumbria | Fibrus | 53,540 | 35,040 |
| Derbyshire | Connect Fibre | 12,880 | 1,550 |
| Dorset and South Somerset | Wessex internet | 19,560 | 5,030 |
| Durham | GoFibre | 4,440 | 4,440 |
| East Gloucestershire | Gigaclear | 3,550 | 1,980 |
| East and West Sussex | CityFibre | 12,760 | 3,020 |
| Hampshire | CityFibre | 29,420 | 7,150 |
| Kent | CityFibre | 8,750 | 2,530 |
| Leicestershire and Warwickshire | CityFibre | 22,480 | 10,740 |
| Lincolnshire and East Riding | Quickline Communications | 46,970 | 21,840 |
| New Forest | Wessex internet | 12,730 | 10,400 |
| Norfolk | CityFibre | 32,670 | 13,310 |
| North Dorset | Wessex internet | 6,480 | 6,170 |
| North East Staffordshire | Connect Fibre | 5,960 | 2,860 |
| North Oxfordshire | Gigaclear | 4,180 | 3,860 |
| North Shropshire | Freedom Fibre | 3,410 | 3,410 |
| Northern North Yorkshire | Quickline Communications | 34,490 | 11,880 |
| Northumberland | GoFibre | 3,830 | 3,830 |
| South Oxfordshire | Gigaclear | 5,120 | 3,200 |
| South West Cornwall | Wildanet | 6,400 | 6,400 |
| South Wiltshire | Wessex internet | 18,790 | 7,650 |
| South Yorkshire | Quickline Communications | 13,290 | 9,320 |
| Suffolk | CityFibre | 38,350 | 18,560 |
| West and Parts of North Yorkshire | Quickline Communications | 28,950 | 18,200 |
| TOTAL | 838,490 | 287,510 |