Comparing 1Gbps Broadband ISP Packages on Openreach’s UK Network – 2026

A couple of years have passed since we last published a summary of the key consumer ISP choices for 1Gbps home broadband packages on Openreach’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – currently available to around 22 million UK homes and businesses. Suffice to say that we’ve today published an updated list and examined how prices have changed.

The current market has plenty of choice in terms of alternative networks, yet Openreach remains the largest open-access provider of such infrastructure and is thus supported by masses of Internet Service Providers (ISP). But such a large amount of choice can also be confusing and in this article we’ve attempted to extract a few of the more consumer friendly options from our UK ISP Listings to help simplify.

The following guide is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather a reasonably reflective one. The table covers a range of more established ISPs that offer packages based off the operator’s 1Gbps (900-1000Mbps) tier, available at a national level and at consumer affordable prices. Most of these providers will also offer slower packages on the same network, but if an ISP is cheap for 1Gbps, then it’ll usually also be cheaper at slower speeds too.

Due to the advertising rules, such packages tend to be promoted as having average downloads (i.e. a median speed as recorded at peak times) of around 900Mbps+ (uploads of 100-115Mbps), although in the future this rate may increase as Openreach adopts faster XGS-PON technology. Providers that don’t offer a 1Gbps class package have been excluded from the list.

Gigabit ISP Choices on Openreach’s Network (2026)

The following table excludes expensive pure business providers and packages (e.g. those above £100+), as well as any that didn’t show key package details on their website (e.g. due to an order or availability system not working), failed to clearly display whether their prices included VAT, didn’t allow customers to take broadband without bundling an energy service, or where we couldn’t ascertain whether the packages were Openreach-based.

Something else to note is that we aren’t highlighting any of the other value-added features that may come with these packages, such as cloud backup, static IP addresses, access to public Wi-Fi hotspots and phone services etc. Not all providers make it easy to figure out what extras they include and attributing value to them is notoriously tricky (often subject to personal preference).

One other important point to consider is that many larger providers have adopted a different pricing policy for mid-contract hikes since our last update in 2024. Providers that have done this now express annual price increases in pounds and pence, rather than an uncertain percentage figure linked to future inflation (here). We express this in the table below for the latest prices.

Take note that we have not taken a view on the service quality of these providers and we’ve only included those that offer unlimited data usage.

Biggest Openreach ISPs – Monthly 1Gbps Plans

Smaller Openreach ISPs – Monthly 1Gbps Plans

The data reveals that the average monthly price for a 1Gbps package during your first contract term, across all the listed providers and packages, comes out as £51.21 (down from £56.09 in 2024). But this falls to £37.25 when only looking at the biggest providers (down from £47.49) and rises to £56 when only looking at smaller players (down from £59.36). The main caveat being that most of the smallest providers don’t do mid-contract price hikes, or didn’t express a clear policy on their packages if they do.

The overall reduction in pricing since early 2024 is likely to be partly a reflection of ISPs fully implementing Openreach’s Equinox 2 discount scheme (here) and any other special offers that have since been introduced. But it’s worth noting that highly variable first term discounts on the biggest ISPs can impact the figures, and we also have to consider those mid-contract price hikes, which don’t show in the above average but have become more aggressive under Ofcom’s new pricing policy (here).

Otherwise, Plusnet came out as the cheapest ISP during the data gathering period (£30.99 pm), while Andrews & Arnold was the most expensive (£85). But in fairness the latter is renowned for excellent service + support quality and their packages include Static IP addresses by default, although some of the others in the list might well make similar claims to fame and for a lot less money.

A number of the above ISPs (e.g. Andrews & Arnold) also have optional monthly (30-day) terms available, although these often attract extra installation and router costs or higher monthly rentals. We’ve typically picked the cheapest package above, which usually equates to the longest minimum contract terms available from each provider.

Finally, we have to mark out Pop Telecom as being the oddball of the group, which is due to the sometimes confusing pricing of their included add-ons, some of which will rise in price after a short “free” period (e.g. Full Fibre Assurance, Router Assurance). The impact of this really needs to be made much clearer on their product summary pages.

Take note that prices change weekly, so the above list won’t reflect changes that occurred from late Feb 2026 onwards. We take our snapshots between mid-Jan to mid-Feb 2026 in order to help maintain a historical record, which we can look back on in the future.