Coverage and speeds

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Map Your Mobile – mobile coverage checker update

Published: 30 June 2025

We have recently launched our new ‘Map Your Mobile’ coverage checker to better reflect the experience consumers are likely to get for data hungry services such as streaming.

Can’t get a signal? Map Your Mobile and see which network’s best for you

Published: 26 June 2025

Millions of Britons could be missing out on the best mobile network for them, according to Ofcom, as it launches a new postcode checker that reveals local coverage and performance.

Broadband and mobile coverage checker

Published: 17 August 2022

Last updated: 25 June 2025

Enter a postcode to view mobile coverage by provider, or availability of broadband services (standard, superfast and ultrafast). You can also view the results as interactive maps.

Connected Nations and infrastructure reports

Published: 19 December 2023

Last updated: 8 May 2025

Reports on the UK’s communications infrastructure, focusing on coverage and performance of fixed broadband and mobile networks.

Connected Nations - Planned Network Deployment

Published: 17 October 2023

Last updated: 8 May 2025

Ofcom’s PND Report is prepared and published to supplement our infrastructure reports (known as our Connected Nations reports). The basis and purpose of this report are set out below and provide important context to the information we publish.

Connected Nations update: Spring 2025

Published: 8 May 2025

This report provides a snapshot of mobile coverage and fixed broadband availability across the UK as of January 2025. It is an interim update to our Connected Nations 2024 report (CN2024), which was based on fixed broadband data from July 2024 and mobile coverage data from September 2024.

Connected Nations - Planned Network Deployments 2025

Published: 8 May 2025

Our 2025 forward-looking report examines the anticipated increase in fixed network coverage supporting very high speed broadband services by the end of 2027.

Preparing for 2G switch-off - devices using international roaming SIMs: 2G Network Coverage Data and predicted new ‘2G Inbound Roaming Not-Spots’

Published: 17 April 2025

Last updated: 2 May 2025

List of postcodes containing premises where international roaming SIMs are predicted to lose 2G indoor coverage once Virgin Media O2 (O2) restricts inbound roaming on its 2G network, as O2 is the only MNO providing 2G coverage at these locations.

Switching off 2G and 3G and 2G networks: advice for IoT and third-party device suppliers

Published: 22 January 2024

Last updated: 17 April 2025

The UK’s mobile network providers will switch off their 3G and then 2G networks over the next few years. This page explains how suppliers of Internet of Things (IoT) and third-party devices can help their customers during this period of change.

Nations reports 2024

Published: 5 December 2024

Last updated: 15 April 2025

These reports examine the availability of broadband and mobile services in each of the UK's nations.

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