The Guernsey Competition & Regulatory Authority has been monitoring broadband speeds in Guernsey and found that they now exceed the last reported UK average broadband download speed, released by OFCOM late last year.
The median average fixed broadband download speed for the island was 74.1Mbps vs. 69.4Mb in the UK, for the period 1 April to 30 September 2024. This is also an increase of 11.9% for the local average speed over the previous period, January to April 2024.
Michael Byrne, CEO of the GCRA, commented on the results: “This year we have been aiming to improve the transparency of what people receive and so hold our broadband providers to account by monitoring their performance using a specialist company—similar to what OFCOM does in the UK. The significant increase in speeds highlights the positive impact of the fibre roll-out which users are benefitting from.”
The GCRA has also released the latest broadband speed test results for the Bailiwick, now updated on a six-month cycle. The performance graph provides an overview of the performance of various providers, based on user-generated test data collected by Speed Checker, an independent third-party service that uses crowdsourced data from across the region.
Starlink accounts for a proportionally small number of broadband connections in the Bailiwick, which may affect the data available for comparison, and this should be considered when viewing the results.
