EE broadband deals: current prices, the £4 rise, set-up fees and what else your line can get

What does EE broadband cost right now?

Direct answer: EE publishes its whole price list without a postcode, which most large providers do not: Core plans from £25.99 a month for Fast, 150 Mbps to £40.99 for 1.6 Gbps on 24 months (checked 16 September 2026), each with a one-off set-up fee and both annual rises printed underneath, so the entry plan really costs £31.24 a month across the term.

EE's line-up is four speeds on the Openreach network, each sold at four feature levels. EE prices the same speed four ways. The prices above are its Core plans; Standard, Premium and Ultimate add security, a WiFi Extender and a hub upgrade for more a month, and the deals page shows the Core price first. Every plan in the table below is the Core level, which comes with the Smart Hub 7 Plus and real-time protection from dodgy websites, WiFi you can pause and manage in the EE app, and AI-driven WiFi monitoring. Adding Entertainment TV costs £10 a month more on each speed and brings EE TV Box Edge, NOW Entertainment and Netflix Standard with adverts.

On 16 September 2026 EE's own site offered switching credit of up to £200 towards the leaving fees you pay your current provider, or up to £300 if you take EE TV as well, and had cut activation to £10 from £30 on the 500 Mbps and 900 Mbps plans. The credit covers early termination charges only, must be claimed by emailing your final bill within 4 months of activation, and pays nothing at all if you are leaving BT, EE or Plusnet, because all three are the same group.

Two things the headline price does not show. First, the set-up fee: EE's standard charge is £30, and the first month of the entry plan is £55.99 rather than £25.99 because of it, which is why the averages above fold it in. Second, the level: the prices above are Core plans, and Standard adds Norton Cyber Security and WiFi Controls, Premium adds a WiFi Extender and Ultimate adds the Smart Hub 7 and an EE Guide Home Visit, each for more a month. Our price and contract checker runs the arithmetic for any provider, our insight on set-up fees against no set-up fees weighs the trade, and our price rise tracker lists what every major provider has confirmed for next year.

Our hand-checked deals table of 1 September 2026 listed EE lower than EE's own website on every comparable tier: Full Fibre 150 at £22.99 against £25.99, Full Fibre 500 at £24.99 against £29.99, Full Fibre 900 at £25.99 against £31.99 and Full Fibre 1.6GB at £33.99 against £40.99, all on 24 months with the same £4 rise, plus Full Fibre 300 at £23.99, Fibre 67 at £22.99 and Fibre 36 and Fibre 50 at £24.99, with reward cards on the two fastest plans.

How does EE's £4 rise work?

Direct answer: EE adds £4 a month to every broadband plan on 31 March each year for contracts taken on or after 6 August 2025, states the amount in the contract so there is no right to leave when it lands, and prints the resulting prices under the plan: £25.99 becomes £29.99 on 31 March 2027 and £33.99 on 31 March 2028.

Since 17 January 2025 Ofcom has banned in-contract price rises linked to inflation and required any rise written into a contract to be stated in pounds and pence at the point of sale. EE's figure is £4 for broadband plans taken from 6 August 2025 and £3 for plans taken between 10 April 2024 and 5 August 2025, applied on 31 March. The detail most comparisons miss is that EE prices television separately: EE TV plans carry a rise of £2 of their own, so a household on broadband and EE TV sees £6 a year rather than £4, and EE's 4G and 5G home broadband plans carry £4. Our page on the EE price rise covers the March 2026 change in detail.

The practical rule is the one we use across this site: count both rises, because a new joiner sees the first one within twelve months and usually much sooner. EE's £4 sits beside £4 at BT, £4 at Plusnet, £4 at TalkTalk, £4 at Virgin Media and £3.50 at Vodafone, while Sky does not fix an amount and gives 31 days to leave when it announces one. Our guide to in-contract price rises sets out the Ofcom rules, and price rises by provider lists who fixes the amount, who varies it and who promises none at all.

Is EE the cheapest way to get the line?

Direct answer: Sometimes, and its own group is the competition. EE's 150 Mbps plan at £25.99 on 16 September 2026 sat £4 below BT's entry full fibre at £29.99, against Plusnet from £22.99, Sky at £23, Vodafone at £24 and TalkTalk at £25; all of them sell the same Openreach line, and EE, BT and Plusnet are the same company selling it three ways.

EE does not own the line into your home. At every address it is an Openreach line that BT, Plusnet, Sky, Vodafone, TalkTalk, NOW, Zen and dozens of smaller providers also sell, which is why a comparison of EE deals has to include the providers that are not EE. The wrinkle unique to EE is its own group: EE, BT and Plusnet are all BT Group brands on the same wholesale connection, so the three of them are competing for you with retail packages rather than with networks, and EE's switching credit pays nothing towards exit fees from the other two.

The wider market is worth a look too. When we last hand-checked every deal, on 1 September 2026, the 373 broadband-only deals from the 28 providers we can switch you to started at £13.50 a month (4th Utility, 150 Mbps on CityFibre), and good full fibre on a 24-month contract clustered between £23 and £34 a month with a median of £28. Set EE's entry plan against that median, and remember to add its set-up fee before you do. The full list, with first-year cost including each provider's rise, is on our verified deals page.

What decides which of these you can order is the network at your address. Ofcom's Spring 2026 data puts full fibre availability at 82% of UK premises and gigabit-capable availability at 89%, and Openreach's own footprint stood at 23.4 million premises on 30 June 2026. EE sells only over Openreach, so where Openreach's full fibre has not arrived, EE's answer is part fibre, 4G or 5G home broadband, or in time satellite, while Virgin Media, CityFibre-based providers and altnets such as YouFibre, Hyperoptic and Community Fibre may have built their own line to your door. Our guide to Openreach against CityFibre explains the difference, and our insight on how UK wholesale broadband works covers why one line carries a dozen brands.

What does EE give you: the hub, the four levels and the Speed Guarantee

Direct answer: The line is the same, so what EE's price buys is the retail layer: the Smart Hub 7 Plus with Wi-Fi 7, real-time protection from dodgy websites, WiFi you can pause and manage in the EE app, and AI-driven WiFi monitoring, a per-plan Speed Guarantee that lets you leave without a charge if EE misses it, an end-of-contract rise capped at £5, and a choice of 12 and 24 month contracts; what it does not buy at the advertised price is security software, a Wi-Fi extender or the better hub, which sit at the levels above Core.

Each item below was checked against EE's own pages on 16 September 2026. Where EE shows a price only after a postcode check, we say so rather than guess.

Two claims that circulate about EE do not hold on its current pages, so they are not on this one: EE Basics is not a broadband social tariff but a 30-day rolling mobile contract for 12 months that can be cancelled at any time with no early exit fees, and the hub on a current plan is the Smart Hub 7 Plus rather than the Smart Hub Plus of earlier years. Where a figure here is EE's own claim rather than an independent test, the card says so; the complaints section below is the independent measure.

Who should choose EE, and who should not?

Direct answer: Choose EE if you want a published price list with both rises printed on it, a Speed Guarantee you can leave on, a capped £5 rise when the term ends, a 12-month option, or a provider that will still sell you part fibre and upgrade you free when full fibre arrives; look elsewhere if you want no set-up fee, a social tariff, a second network at your address, or the cheapest version of this same Openreach line.

The head-to-head pages cover the pairings people search for most: EE against BT, EE against Plusnet, Sky against EE and TalkTalk against EE. For the whole market at once, use your postcode.

What if full fibre has not reached you?

Direct answer: EE is one of the few large providers still selling part fibre to new customers, at 67 Mbps average download and 19 Mbps upload from £24 a month, and it makes a promise on that page: 'We'll upgrade you to full fibre for free when it becomes available in your area'. It also sells 4G and 5G home broadband, and has announced satellite broadband with Starlink at up to 280 Mbps.

This is the clearest practical difference between EE and several of its rivals. TalkTalk paused part-fibre sales to new customers on 24 June 2026, and providers that sell only full fibre cannot help a home the Openreach fibre build has not reached. EE's answer is to sell the older line now and move you across later at no charge, which matters in the 18% of UK premises that Ofcom's Spring 2026 data says full fibre has not yet passed. Read the small print on the upgrade in your own order, because 'free' refers to the upgrade rather than to the price you pay afterwards.

Does EE do a social tariff?

Direct answer: No. EE does not run a broadband social tariff of its own. Its financial support page sends eligible households to BT Home Essentials, the tariff of its sister brand, and EE Basics is a mobile SIM tariff rather than a broadband one, so a household on Universal Credit, Pension Credit or another qualifying benefit cannot buy a discounted EE broadband plan and should compare the providers that do offer one.

This one is worth stating plainly because it is widely got wrong, including on this page before we rebuilt it. EE Basics is a 30-day rolling mobile contract for 12 months that can be cancelled at any time with no early exit fees: a mobile tariff, not broadband. Set against the market, our deals check of 1 September 2026 listed social tariffs from £12.50 a month across the providers we compare, BT Home Essentials starts at £16.50 and is the tariff EE itself points to, Vodafone Essentials Broadband costs £20 for up to 80 Mbps and is open to new customers, Virgin Media Essential Broadband costs £12.50, and Sky Broadband Basics at £20 is for existing Sky customers only. Our social tariffs guide lists every provider's tariff and who qualifies, and our insight on how social tariff broadband works covers the application steps.

How does EE score on complaints and reviews?

Direct answer: EE drew 6 broadband complaints per 100,000 customers in Ofcom's January to March 2026 data, level with the industry average of 6 and with Virgin Media, below BT (7), Vodafone (8) and TalkTalk (10) and above Plusnet (4) and Sky (5); its pay monthly mobile figure of 1 was the joint lowest in the table, while on pay TV it was the most complained about pay TV service in the quarter, improving from 5, and Ofcom records that EE's pay TV complaints were mainly about how the complaint itself was handled.

Ofcom described the Q1 2026 industry figure of 6 per 100,000 as an all-time low, down from 40 per 100,000 at the 2011 peak. EE's broadband figure has moved from 11 per 100,000 in Q1 2025 to 8 in Q4 2025 and 6 in Q1 2026, and from a peak of 14 since 2019, which is one of the larger falls in the series. Its landline figure was 3 per 100,000, down sharply from 6 in the previous quarter, with Ofcom naming EE among the least complained about landline providers. The Complaints Floor, our Report No. 30, sets out the full series and Ofcom's comparability rules.

Then the part that does EE no favours, stated for the same reason we state the rest. EE's pay TV service drew 4 complaints per 100,000, the highest of the pay TV providers Ofcom lists, and 27% of those complaints were about how the complaint itself was handled rather than about the original problem. If you are taking EE for the Entertainment TV bundle rather than the broadband alone, that is the number to weigh.

One more caution, and it is the most useful thing on this page if you are reading review scores. EE's main Trustpilot profile stood at 4.3 out of 5 while its broadband-specific profile sat at 1.2, a gap of 3.1 points for one company on one platform. Nothing about EE changed between those two profiles: the difference is which customers each one attracts. Ofcom counts complaints escalated to the regulator per 100,000 customers, which is a narrow but consistent measure; Trustpilot collects reviews from whoever chooses to leave one. Use both, and treat any single headline score with care. If you do need to complain, the rules changed on 8 April 2026: a complaint that EE has not resolved after six weeks, down from eight, can go free of charge to the independent ombudsman scheme it belongs to. Our complaints and your rights guide walks through the steps and the compensation you may be owed.

What should you check before you order EE?

Direct answer: Six checks, five minutes: which level you are being quoted, the set-up fee, the three prices EE prints, the same line priced from everyone else including BT and Plusnet, the switching credit terms, and the guarantee, exit charge and notice period.

Related reading: exit fees and set-up fees by provider, how One Touch Switch works, keeping your phone number when you switch, out-of-contract broadband prices, and what cashback, vouchers and free gifts are really worth.

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