The cheapest full fibre package in the UK now costs just £16 a month
Key Points
- New research from Point Topic shows that Gigaclear now sell the cheapest entry-level full fibre broadband package in the UK at £16 a month.
- This is actually a £1 less than it cost in the first quarter of the year.
- Point Topic collects the prices each quarter directly from the Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
- Across the board, the data shows that the UK market average for entry-level ultrafast broadband fell to £28.40 a month in the second quarter of 2026.
- DSL connections have continued to be phased out and fell to 1.03 million over the quarter as the migration away from copper lines continues at pace.
New research from Point Topic shows that Gigaclear now sell the cheapest entry-level full fibre broadband package in the UK at £16 a month. This is actually a £1 less than it cost in the first quarter of the year.
Point Topic collects the prices each quarter directly from the Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Across the board, the data shows that the UK market average for entry-level ultrafast broadband fell to £28.40 a month in the second quarter of 2026, down from the £29 in the first quarter. This represents a decrease of 2.1%.
ISP Fibrus made the biggest cut during the quarter, dropping its entry-level pricing from £29 a month to £25 a month.
BT Consumer, Virgin Media O2, TalkTalk, Vodafone, Hyperoptic, Community Fibre, and YouFibre all left their pricing unchanged. Point Topic noted that this is likely to shift in the coming months ahead of the Autumn pricing cycle.
It should be noted that Gigaclear runs a comparatively small network compared to the other ISPs, with £175,000 connections across 660,000 premises passed. Nevertheless, this is an impressive take up rate of 26.5% and shows that the firm is definitely doing something right.
Point Topic’s data shows that full fibre is now the largest single access technology in the UK, with just under 14 million lines compared to 8.7 million FTTC/FTTx lines.
DSL connections have continued to be phased out and fell to 1.03 million over the quarter as the migration away from copper lines continues at pace.
