New ISP Orbus Broadband Launches and Promises Best WiFi Across UK
The United Kingdom’s existing market for internet service providers is already quite an overcrowded place, but today it got a little busier after a new ISP called Orbus Broadband (a trading name of London-based AnyLead Ltd) launched with a promise to deliver “Better Broadband and the Best WiFi Across the UK“.
According to the announcement, Orbus aims to “bring households faster speeds, stronger WiFi coverage, and fairer pricing. At a time when millions of families are struggling with poor service and confusing contracts, Orbus is setting out to offer a simple alternative: full fibre connectivity paired with the latest Eero mesh WiFi system.” Orbus also commits to “avoid the hidden fees and mid-contract price hikes“.
At present the new provider, which includes an Amazon’s mesh WiFi system as standard on their packages, appears to only be offering three packages via Openreach’s national full fibre (FTTP) broadband network. Prices start at £30.99 per month for 150Mbps on a 24-month term and rise to £35.99 for 500Mbps and then £40.99 for 900Mbps.
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Shay Ramani, CEO of Orbus Broadband, said:
“We created Orbus to give UK households a better broadband option – one that puts speed, reliability, and fairness first. Our launch is about providing not just fibre connections but also the best WiFi available through our partnership with Eero. Every family should have a service that works across the whole home without confusing pricing or hidden costs.”
The listed Director of AnyLead Ltd is currently Shaileshkumar Ishvarlal Ramani, who is also a director of several other companies, including the Free Price Compare utilities comparison website at the same address.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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We need new ISPs in this country like our town centres need new coffee shops, vape shops & barbers.
At £30.99 for 150Mbps they’re certainly not distinguishing themselves on price.
Do we know if they supply unshared IPv4, or if they use CG-NAT or MAP-T. Do they support IPv6 ? Do they have their own network, or is this a white labeled service?
The price isn’t bad, if they are offering a more premium product. They are I think cheaper than A&A or Aquiss
Everyone is cheaper than A&A, although they haven’t increased their prices for at least 5 years now, which is impressive. So they get better value over time! And I can’t fault the service or support, of course. Just switched over from VDSL to FTTP via A&A, without a hitch, and I of course got to keep my same static IP.
Openreach FTTP bundled with an eero, very original. Absolutely market leading prices too. It’ll be dead and gone in 6 months.
Indeed. There is a surprisingly large demand now fueled by working from home and online gaming for quality over quantity when it comes to ISPs. People want to know if it has a real static IP, what the ping time is, if it’s easy to remove any porn filters and if the router has 2.5gbps ethernet or better. Instead they market it with nonsense about wifi and try to compete in the race to the bottom, a race Virgin and Sky won by a landslide years ago.
There is really only one way to give consumers the best WiFi and speed guaranteed
That is via a small bit of internal / external cabling to drop 1 or 2 wireless access points at locations in the home likely to struggle with coverage due to distance and material of walls. All this mesh nonsense is a bit of a gimmick that will have faffing about for ages.
Yes, that’s the ultimate solution – distributed Wi-Fi with ethernet backhaul (preferably to a nice POE switch). But it’s still overkill for most people. I used an ASUS mesh router pair for years (tri-band) and it worked very well in a modern 4-bed house, covering all areas and the garden. Now I’m on a UniFi setup that’s even better, but most don’t really need it.
I’m surprised so many ISPs still provide these “mesh” solutions (repeaters) which are basically useless for most people with houses that need more than one access point.
While a cable to APs is best, why don’t they integrate powerline so the other APs can be somewhere in the house WITHOUT signal, which is what most customers expect.
I think powerline is really quite limited speed wise. I don’t see many paying to have ethernet cabling installed (I mean just the costs of making good a plastered wall can be significant).
I think one thing that needs to happen is more frequencies assignments for WiFi, although that takes a long time to come through
We perhaps also need to consider the 2.4G WiFi, if we drop b/g/n can we have something that is more efficient
Suspect it is just a reseller. Was previously a dormant company
Best WiFi across the UK? – l believe another provider were TalkTalkin about that recently. 🙂
Openreach….. Not even worth starting
Sounds like someone’s lying. Best wifi across UK using an eero. What’s unique avout them? Naff all