UK Business Connectivity: The 2026 Data Report

Three findings that should change buying behaviour

1. Delivery time is a planning number, not a footnote. The pooled series shows 2020–22 as the slow era — a median of 128 days across all bands (n=45), against 84 days in 2016–19 (n=24). In 2023–25 the feed publishes by speed band: the dominant 1Gbps band ran a 78-day median (n=101), but one in ten 1Gbps orders still took 348 days or longer. The planning consequence is blunt: order the circuit when the lease is signed, not when the fit-out finishes, and treat the p90 as your contingency.

2. More than half the live base is out of contract. 58.4% of currently-billed circuits (781 of 1,338) are past their contract end — past the point where a re-sign or re-tender typically prices sharper. If you don’t know your circuit’s contract end date, that statistic is probably about you.

3. The ECC tail is the project risk. Half of quoted excess construction charges sit at or under £2,197 — but one in ten reaches £16,000 or more. The full distribution and the de-risking playbook are on the ECC page.

Regional 100Mbps benchmarks

Two regional cuts, published and rendered separately so quoted-market and won-business figures are never conflated: the all_quotes view (every quote issued) and the won_only view (quotes that converted). Regions whose samples were too thin for their own cell carry the UK-wide roll-up, marked in the tables, per the methodology.

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