Broadband providers

As well as broadband and phone services, Sky offers TV packages that can be adapted with a variety of extra channels, such as Sky Cinema and Sky Sports. It also now offers Sky Mobile.

Virgin Media provides the fastest widely available broadband in the UK – up to 1130Mbps – along with a range of TV packages to rival Sky. The Virgin Mobile service operates on the 4G EE network.

BT offers home broadband, phone and TV packages in the UK, along with a mobile service. Its fibre optic services reach speeds up to 900Mbps. BT TV uses BT broadband to deliver programmes.

TalkTalk supplies a range of well-priced fibre and standard broadband packages, available with a choice of TV and phone plans. TalkTalk TV is only available with TalkTalk broadband.

Largely known as a mobile provider, EE also offers standard and fibre broadband, and EE TV, which is only available with EE broadband. The EE network offers the fastest 4G mobile connection in the UK.

NOW Broadband is the ideal partner for NOW TV. Owned and operated by Sky, it offers competitively priced fibre and standard broadband deals on a 12-month contract.

Multi-award winning Plusnet provides fibre and standard broadband at fair, competitive prices. Plusnet boasts high-quality customer service and has a good customer satisfaction record.

Shell Energy broadband is new to the broadband market, offering extremely well-priced, clear and straightforward broadband and fibre packages with no fuss or complicated extras.

Vodafone is best known as a mobile network, offering phone and mobile broadband services. It now also offers home broadband, with fibre broadband speeds up to 910Mbps.

Hyperoptic is part of a new wave of providers offering gigabit broadband. It does this using its own network and has a strong focus on apartment blocks in big cities.

Direct Save Telecom might not be a household name, but it has been a broadband provider since 1999. It offers low-cost, no-frills broadband, framing itself as a budget provider.

Gigaclear aims to bring some of the fastest broadband in the country to rural locations which have been let down by Openreach and Virgin Media in their network rollout plans.

It may not be the biggest name in the broadband market but Hove-based iTalk Telecom has been around for more than a decade .

Onestream broadband launched in the summer of 2018, and it’s part of the Hampshire-based broadband specialist Onecom.

YouFibre specialises exclusively in pure fibre connections for the home in select areas across the UK.

Community Fibre is a London-based broadband provider that offers high-speed, full fibre connections of up to 3Gbps.

Fibrus Broadband provides ultrafast pure fibre broadband to homes in selected locations across Northern Ireland and Northern England.

BeFibre is a relative newcomer to the UK broadband market, offering ultrafast and pure fibre connections.