Highland Broadband has cut its gigabit price to £34.99 a month
Highland Broadband, the altnet building full fibre across rural Scotland under the Lothian Broadband name, has cut what it charges for its faster packages. Its 1000Mbps tier now sells at £34.99 a month against a standard £79.99, and its 5Gbps tier at £49.99 with a £100 gift card. The discounts were reported by ISPreview and appear on the provider’s own pricing page, where the entry 150Mbps package is listed at £29.99.
Those are new customer prices on a 24-month term. Existing customers are not included, which the provider states plainly in its own terms. Installation is free, the router is included, and there is up to 12 months of switching credit towards whatever you still owe your current supplier.
The part worth reading twice sits directly under every price on that page. Each one carries the line “Increases £4 each April from 2027”. So this is a low headline price with a rise already written into it, and ISPreview describes the same policy as an annual April hike of the sort the large providers apply. A two-year contract signed this month runs through two of those Aprils before it ends. Neither the provider’s page nor the report spells out whether the £4 is added to the discounted price or the standard one, and that detail decides what the second year actually costs, so it is worth getting in writing before you sign.
That matters because it is not how every small network prices. A number of the altnets we track hold the price flat for the whole term instead, which is the thing to compare against rather than the first month’s figure. Our guide to broadband price rises covers what a provider has to tell you about a rise before you agree to one, and finding a cheap deal that lasts goes through the same maths over a full contract.
Whether any of this reaches you is the open question. The provider lists Argyll, Fife, the Highlands, the Lothians, Moray and Stirlingshire as the areas it serves, and ISPreview puts the network at roughly 150 rural Scottish towns and villages. Full fibre goes in street by street though, so a region being on that list tells you very little about your own address. ISPreview also notes that the company originally aimed to pass 100,000 premises by the end of 2024 and has not published a progress update since, so how far the build has actually got is not something anyone outside it can say today.
If you are in one of those areas, the practical step is to check the address rather than the region, then hold the offer next to what you pay now over two years rather than one. Our availability checker is the place to start.