{"id":40962,"date":"2025-02-18T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40962"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:49:45","slug":"study-claims-3-9-million-uk-homes-owed-compensation-for-broadband-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/study-claims-3-9-million-uk-homes-owed-compensation-for-broadband-issues.html","title":{"rendered":"Study Claims 3.9 Million UK Homes Owed Compensation for Broadband Issues UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from comparison site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocompare.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go.Compare<\/a>, which used data gathered from YouGov (survey of 2,000 UK residents) and the ONS, has claimed that more than 3.9 million UK households were owed compensation for broadband issues in the last year. But take that figure with a big pinch of salt.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the findings, some 17% of respondents with ISPs that have signed-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/automatic-compensation-goes-live-for-uk-broadband-isp-consumers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Automatic Compensation<\/strong><\/a> scheme for broadband faults reported that they had &#8220;<em>experienced a delay or missed appointment<\/em>&#8221; in the last year. But more worrying is the indication that 91% of respondents do not know what the regulator&#8217;s compensation scheme is, including customers whose providers are signed up to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s scheme is designed to compensate consumers by \u00a39.76 per day for delayed repairs following a loss of broadband (assuming it isn\u2019t fixed within 2 working days). Missed appointments can also attract compensation of \u00a330.49 and a delay to the start of a new service would be \u00a36.10 per day.<\/div>\n<p>The survey claims that this means ISPs should have paid out over <strong>\u00a3114.9m<\/strong> in compensation to customers over the last 12 months, which is said to reflect the claim that more than 3.5 million households in the UK suffered broadband delays, with 1.4m experiencing a late start of a new service and 2.1m waiting for a repair following a loss of service.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Go.Compare believes that 1.2 million households should have been compensated a total of \u00a357m in the last year due to missed appointments (around 5% of eligible broadband users reported to the insurance comparison site that they had experienced this issue).<\/p>\n<p>The catch here is that Go.Compare&#8217;s survey is both of a fairly small sample size and one that can&#8217;t delve into the detail of each response, which is necessary to understand whether each fault or delay would have actually been eligible for such a payment. Many faults are not eligible, such as when the issue is caused by the customer&#8217;s own home network or a remote internet service (i.e. not the broadband line or ISP) &#8211; something that isn&#8217;t always clear to regular users.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, customers seeking compensation for a protracted broadband outage often forget that they need to report the outage to their ISP first (as soon as they&#8217;re able), otherwise a claim may be rejected (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/10\/a-sobering-reminder-that-ofcoms-auto-compensation-system-has-limits.html\">here<\/a>) &#8211; unless you&#8217;re from a vulnerable group and eligible for priority fault repair (the eligibility rules for them are more flexible).<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that surveys like this have a tendency to inflate the cost reality and scale of such issues. We&#8217;re currently asking for some updated figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> and will report back later on what was actually paid out to consumers by ISPs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The compensation scheme is supported by most of the major ISPs including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/hyperopticfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperoptic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a> (inc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/nowtv\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NOW TV<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> (restrictions apply for those on non-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> networks), Utility Warehouse, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> (restrictions apply on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> side of their network), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/plusnetuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Plusnet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Internet<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 12:47pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ofcom reports that, in 2022, over \u00a360m was paid out by providers in automatic compensation, with around 1.34 million payments being made across all three service issues. The regulator reviews this every couple of years, and thus we should be getting an update in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from comparison site Go.Compare, which used data gathered from YouGov (survey of 2,000 UK residents) and the ONS, has claimed that more than 3.9 million UK households were owed compensation for broadband issues in the last year. 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