Networks we price and check at your address
These are the altnets we hold live pricing for and check in our availability tool, re-verified monthly against provider data.
Rise Fibre
A fast-growing full fibre altnet with one of the widest package ranges in the sector, from budget 150 Mbps lines to 2.3 Gbps, and unusually flexible contract lengths including rolling short-term options.
Read the review →Full fibreCommunity Fibre
London's largest dedicated full fibre network, known for aggressive pricing. Symmetric speeds up to 5 Gbps, and among the keenest entry pricing in the capital. The spec strip below carries the current figures.
Read the review →Full fibreFusion Fibre
A straightforward full fibre range topping out at 900 Mbps, which is more than most households ever use, at keen entry pricing. Read the status notice below before committing to a long term.
Read the review →Full fibreHey! Broadband
A full fibre altnet expanding across the south of England. Live pricing is being refreshed, so use the availability checker for current deals at your address.
Read the review →Fixed price contractYouFibre
Among the fastest residential broadband in the UK, up to 7 Gbps, with no mid-contract price rises and a rare rolling monthly option alongside 24-month deals. A favourite with heavy users and remote workers.
Read the review →Full fibreV4 Broadband
A no-nonsense full fibre range from 150 Mbps to a full gigabit, with transparent pricing and predictable, published increases rather than inflation-linked surprises.
Read the review →Fixed price contractZzoomm
Full fibre in towns the big networks skipped, with fixed-price contracts and speeds up to 2.3 Gbps. What you sign up for is what you pay, for the whole term.
Read the review →Fixed price contractLightSpeed Broadband
Bringing full fibre to Lincolnshire and the east of England, with speeds to 5 Gbps and a fixed-price promise: no scheduled increases for the life of the contract.
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Verified pricing, price-rise policies and Trustpilot scores for these networks, but we don't yet check their coverage at your address, so they won't show in your checker results.
Hyperoptic
London and dozens of other UK towns and cities, with a long-standing focus on flats and new-build developments.
Read the review →ReviewedGigaclear
Rural villages and hamlets across central and southern England that the mainstream providers largely skipped.
Read the review →Reviewedtoob
Its own network across Hampshire, Dorset, Surrey and Sussex, extended into more of England and Scotland using CityFibre wholesale.
Read the review →ReviewedTrooli
Around half a million premises across the South and South East of England, originating in Kent, plus pockets of central Scotland.
Read the review →ReviewedTruespeed
Rural and semi-rural communities across South West England, run out of Bath.
Read the review →ReviewedG.Network
London only, with its own ducts and full fibre built borough by borough across the capital.
Read the review →ReviewedOgi
Selected areas across south Wales, built and run from Cardiff with a deliberately Welsh identity.
Read the review →ReviewedB4RN
Hard-to-reach rural communities across the North of England, dug and built parish by parish in Lancashire, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
Read the review →ReviewedWightFibre
Its own full fibre network across the Isle of Wight, the Gigabit Island Project, which has passed more than 72,000 of the island's roughly 80,000 premises.
Read the review →ReviewedQuickline
Rural Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, using a mix of full fibre and fixed wireless to reach communities the national networks bypassed.
Read the review →ReviewedConnect Fibre
Villages and market towns across the East Midlands and neighbouring counties, with a network still expanding.
Read the review →ReviewedWessex Internet
Rural Dorset and into Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset, a full fibre specialist reaching farms and villages the big networks skipped, and the appointed supplier for Project Gigabit in Dorset.
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The UK has well over a hundred alternative networks. These are significant consumer operators we profile for reference while we verify their numbers. An incomplete map would defeat the point of this site.
Fibrus
Northern Ireland and parts of northern England including Cumbria and Yorkshire, much of it in areas classed as hard to reach.
Read the profile →ProfileGoFibre
The Scottish Borders, central Scotland and the north east of England, with a largely small-town and rural footprint.
Read the profile →ProfileWildanet
Cornwall and parts of Devon, including many communities with historically poor connectivity.
Read the profile →ProfileGrain Connect
Eastern and central Scotland, including Dundee, Perth, Fife and Stirling.
Read the profile →Profile4th Utility
Apartment blocks, build-to-rent and managed developments across multiple UK cities rather than a single contiguous region.
Read the profile →ProfileBe Fibre
Lancashire, Yorkshire and the North West, focused on towns rather than city centres.
Read the profile →ProfileKCOM
Hull and East Yorkshire. The original UK independent network, and the reason Hull has never been an Openreach town.
Read the profile →ProfileLightning Fibre
Eastbourne and East Sussex, plus neighbouring parts of the South East.
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