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EE really wants you to switch to its latest broadband deals.
Switch to EE and your broadband bills will plummet to £0 for the first three months of your new contract. Yes, really. That means you'll pay nothing for internet until July or August at the earliest.
After that, EE will charge £36.99 for its Full Fibre 300 package. That includes download speeds of 308Mbps — with a speed guarantee of 150Mbps, unlimited download limits, and no upfront costs. That top speed is 4x faster than the average home internet speed as measured in the UK earlier this year — so you shouldn't have any trouble downloading large files, streaming movies in the highest quality, or making stutter-free video calls at peak times.
If you want even faster speeds, EE's Busiest Home Bundle is also costs £0 for the first three months.
This flagship package offers 1.6Gbps downloads — the fastest speeds available nationwide from a major provider, powered by its newest Wi-Fi 7 router. EE is one of the only nationwide broadband providers that offers a Wi-Fi 7 router bundled with its full-fibre internet connections.
For comparison, you'll need to spend £170 to buy a Wi-Fi 7 router from Amazon-owned eero to upgrade your wireless network with the latest speeds, which offer improved performance.
After three months of free broadband, EE subscribers will be charged £75.99 per month for this broadband deal, which is 21x speedier than the average household broadband in the UK.
But there's more...
If you still have a few months left of your current broadband contract, EE will pay £300 to your current supplier to cover any cancellation fees. When you're within the minimum contract terms, most internet providers will force you to pay the remaining balance before they'll let you leave and switch to a rival brand.
Pay £0 for EE full-fibre broadband
For a limited time, EE is offering free broadband for the first 3 months of your contract. Available on full-fibre packages starting from £32.99, which unlocks the Full Fibre 74 Essentials, up to the all-singing, all-dancing Busiest Home bundle with the new Wi-Fi 7 hub included as standard. If you're not outside of your current contract, EE will contribute up to £300 towards early exit fees
EE Full Fibre 300
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If you're paying £30 for your broadband — the average monthly fee in the UK — this generous scheme from EE means you could leave your current deal 10 months early and switch to the latest EE speeds.
EE has also waived its setup fees, so there's no upfront cost when switching to its £0 broadband deal.
While EE might be best known for its mobile network... it offers some of the fastest full-fibre broadband connections nationwide. It relies on Openreach's nationwide network of full-fibre cables.
Earlier this year, the BT-owned firm revealed 17 million homes had been successfully upgraded to the speediest full-fibre internet connection. These next-generation connections offer download speeds up to 1,600Mbps.
Fibre-optic cables deliver faster download and upload speeds, as well as improved reliability compared to traditional internet services. Connections are less likely to be disrupted by bad weather conditions, and you won't see speeds dip at peak times, when all of your neighbours are trying to stream a boxset at the same time.
If you don't fancy switching to EE... BT has matched the same £0 offer. For the first three months of its Full Fibre 300 and Full Fibre 2 plans, you'll pay nothing for your broadband bills. There's no setup fee, either.
However, BT will only contribute £100 towards any early exit fees, so you should switch to EE if you've got plenty of time left on your current broadband deal.
Pay £0 for BT full-fibre broadband
Enjoy £0 broadband for the first three months of your new contract. BT broadband starts from £32.99 for download speeds of 50Mbps, rising to £36.99 for Full Fibre 300 with 308Mbps speeds. BT has waived its upfront cost for even bigger savings, and will contribute up to £100 towards early exit fees.
BT Fibre 2
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For those who want the ultimate speeds, BT broadband tops-out at Full Fibre 300, which is over 5x slower than EE's Busiest Home bundle and its 1.6Gbps speeds.
However, if you're not interested in eye-wateringly fast downloads, BT Fibre 1 arrives with 50Mbps download speeds. That's less than the UK household average of 73Mbps, so if you regularly stream boxsets, play multiplayer games online, or make video calls... you'll probably want to avoid.
But if you want one of the most affordable packages, this is the best choice. After three months of £0 broadband bills, you'll pay just £32.99 a month for BT Fibre 1.
Chances are, your broadband bills will increase this month.
The biggest UK broadband providers will charge between £2 - £3.50 extra, or raise subscriptions between 4.5 - 7.5%. The price hike that applies to your broadband will depend on the supplier and when you signed-up.
We've explained the exact price rise coming to BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Plusnet, and EE broadband customers. According to data published by Ofcom, some 7.4 million UK households are currently out of contract and could switch to a new subscription with no repercussions.
To unlock the more reliable, faster Wi-Fi 7 wireless network, you'll need to use the all-new Smart Hub Pro Wi-Fi router designed by the teams at EE and powered by internals from Qualcomm EE PRESS OFFICE According to figures published by Ofcom, the average home broadband speed in the UK sits at roughly 73Mbps. If you upgrade to any of the 300Mbps full-fibre plans listed above, you'll enjoy 4x faster download speeds — meaning you can stream high-quality video, back-up photos to the cloud, download software updates, and make video calls with friends and family anywhere in the world without any buffering.
If you're unsure about what broadband speed you need in your home. We've put together the average download speeds for an hour-long television show episode in Standard Definition (SD), roughly 450MB in size.
- 73Mbps, the average broadband speed in the UK: 54 seconds
- 150Mbps, the lowest speed available with most full-fibre packages: 24 seconds
- 500Mbps, widely available from all full-fibre providers: 7 seconds
- 1Gbps (or 1,000Mbps) is not available from all broadband companies: 4 seconds
An Openreach engineer is pictured installing fibre-optic cables to an exchange location
BT PRESS OFFICESome of the biggest broadband providers in the UK rely on infrastructure from Openreach, including BT, EE, Sky, TalkTalk, and Plusnet. If you're able to access gigabit-capable broadband from any of these companies, you should be able to maintain those speeds when you switch to another.
Openreach aims to fit 25 million homes and businesses with full-fibre connections by 2026, rising to 30 million by the end of the decade. Given that BT-owned Openreach was able to connect 4.2 million premises to its Ultrafast Full Fibre network in 2024 — equivalent to a new connection every eight seconds.
However, not every broadband brand relies on Openreach.
Virgin Media maintains its own dedicated fibre network, which offers download speeds of up to 1,130Mbps to roughly 16 million homes, plus there are a number of other smaller brands building their own infrastructure to connect to customers directly, including Community Fibre, HyperOptic, and G.Network.
Despite the smaller footprint of these full-fibre suppliers, they're proving increasingly popular with British households looking for alternatives from the biggest brands.
Under the One Touch Switch system, which made its debut in September 2024, switching between any of the broadband brands listed above is much, much easier.
Under this simplifed system, customers only need to contact their new provider, which will handle the entire switching process, including liaising with the existing provider.
If that sounds familiar, it's likely because the process of switching between broadband brands running on BT-owned Openreach cables has been like this for years, but it was moving between different full-fibre networks, from Openreach to Virgin Media for example, where customers would need to contact multiple customer service teams and organise the switchover date themselves.
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Bringing the same hassle-free switching that's existed between Openreach-powered brands since 2013 should remove almost all fears about switching broadband providers — being left without a connection for weeks, evenings spent on the phone to arrange a date for an engineer appointment, paying two broadband bills because the cut-off date and start of your new contract didn't line-up perfectly.
Ahead of the (long-delayed) launch of One Touch Switch, Ofcom released data that showed four in 10 people (41%) in the UK would decide against switching because of the headache of having to contact more than one provider. A similar number (43%) told the regulator they were put off switching because it seemed too time-consuming.
And of those who had decided to switch, almost a quarter (24%) who reached out to their current provider faced unwanted attempts to persuade them to stay. Under the new system, you only need to sign-up to a broadband deal with the new provider, who will handle the switchover date and admin with your current internet supplier behind the scenes.
