Compare Airband Broadband Deals in October, 2026

Airband was founded in 2009 to bring wireless broadband to rural communities. Its original company, Airband Community Internet Limited, was incorporated on 31 December 2009. Between 2015 and 2018 it grew its fixed wireless network, and from 2019 it moved into building full fibre on a large scale.

Today Airband designs, builds and runs its own independent network. It says most of that network was paid for with commercial finance, and that in some regions it has worked with the government's Building Digital UK (BDUK) programme to build in rural areas with public subsidy. Its fibre is independent of BT and Openreach, although Airband often runs its cables through Openreach's underground ducts and occasionally uses Openreach cabinets. Its wireless network uses no BT infrastructure at all.

Airband has won industry recognition for its wireless work. In September 2025 it won the Wireless Innovation Award at the Connected Britain Awards, and in December 2025 it won a Connected Communities award at the World Communication Awards in London for connecting rural communities with gigabit fixed wireless.

The last two years have been turbulent behind the scenes. Airband was backed by the investor abrdn (now the Aberdeen Group). A restructuring shifted its focus towards selling on the network it had already built rather than building new infrastructure, and its leadership changed during 2026, including the departure of chief executive Kashif Rahman in April.

Airband is a regional provider, so the first question is whether it reaches your address at all. Its network covers rural and semi-rural parts of England and Wales, and it says its strongest presence is in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Devon and Somerset. It also has local pages for Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Wales.

Before the sale, Airband said its network spanned more than 440,000 premises in over 200 communities across seven counties: around 175,000 premises on full fibre and 265,000 on fixed wireless, all ready for service. That wireless total includes older, slower links, because Airband counts a wireless premises wherever it can match or beat the speeds already available there. After the deal, Voneus gave a narrower measure for the combined business: 170,000 ready-for-service gigabit premises, counting full fibre and gigabit-capable wireless only. The headline figures depend on what is counted, so the postcode check is the real test of what you can get.

Although Airband's focus is the countryside, it says its network has reached some bigger towns and cities, and it gives Cardiff, Cheltenham, Exeter, Plymouth and Shrewsbury as a sample. It does not say whether town connections run on its own fibre or on another network, and it asks you to check whether it has reached your street, so do not expect citywide coverage.

By October 2025 Airband was also selling Openreach full fibre to some addresses outside its own network, ISPreview reported. A spokesperson said it now offers SoGEA (broadband over a copper line with no landline service) and 4G broadband too, and that it had switched over 500 customers in the first 100 days of selling outside its own network. So Airband may appear in the comparison at an address its own network does not reach. Enter your postcode in the comparison above to see which Airband deals are available at your address, or use Airband's own postcode checker, where you can register interest if you are out of range.

Airband sells two families of packages: Fibre on its full fibre network and AirSpeed on its fixed wireless network. Which one you can order depends entirely on your address. All of them have unlimited usage, a Nokia WiFi 6 mesh router, and free survey and installation, and none needs a phone line or line rental. The standard contract is 24 months.

The speeds below are Airband's advertised average speeds, which it bases on what customers get at peak time (8pm to 10pm). They were checked on Airband's website in October 2026. We do not list prices here because they vary by location and change often; the comparison above shows the live price for each deal at your address.

Airband keeps things simple: it is a broadband provider first, with a couple of optional add-ons rather than big TV and mobile bundles.

• Router and Wi-Fi. Every package includes a Nokia WiFi Beacon G6, a WiFi 6 mesh router with 2.5Gbps network ports. Airband says one unit covers up to 225 square metres, and you can add more Beacon units to extend the mesh round a larger home. Everything is managed in the Nokia WiFi app. Our guide to improving your Wi-Fi signal has more tips.
• Home phone (Airband Talk). Airband Talk is a digital home phone service that runs over your broadband connection (VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol). It is sold only as an add-on to Airband broadband. It includes 5,000 minutes a month to UK local and national numbers and 03 numbers, free 1571 voicemail, the option to keep your current number, a free adapter so you can plug in your existing phone, and a softphone app. Calls will not work if your broadband is down or in a power cut, and Airband offers a backup battery for vulnerable customers.
• Online security (Airband Protect). An optional paid add-on powered by F-Secure and controlled through the Nokia WiFi app. It blocks malicious and phishing websites, adds stronger parental controls and protects smart home devices.
• TV and mobile. Airband does not list any Airband-branded TV or mobile bundles on its website (checked October 2026). If you want broadband and TV together, see our broadband and TV deals comparison.

The UK's old copper phone network is being retired, with the switch-off due to complete by 31 January 2027, so landline calls everywhere are moving to digital services like Airband Talk. If you rely on a landline for a telecare alarm or in emergencies, tell Airband when you order.

Airband has a large number of reviews for a provider of its size. When we checked its Trustpilot profile on 8 October 2026, it had a TrustScore of 4.2 out of 5, rated “Great”, from 11,983 reviews. Airband has claimed the profile since May 2020 and had replied to 93% of negative reviews. Airband's own website describes its rating as “Excellent”; its terms date that claim to December 2025, so the live Trustpilot page is the better guide.

Airband's industry awards in 2025 (the Connected Britain Wireless Innovation Award and a World Communication Award) recognise its wireless technology rather than customer service.

If something goes wrong, Airband's support line is 01905 676 121 (weekdays 9am to 5pm), or you can email customer.services@airband.co.uk. Formal complaints go to complaints@airband.co.uk; Airband says it will be in touch within five working days if a complaint needs more investigation and aims to resolve complaints within 28 days with a written response.

Airband's standard residential contract is 24 months. A 12-month version of every Fibre and AirSpeed package is available, but only by phoning Airband's sales team; 12-month deals cannot be ordered online. When your minimum term ends you move onto a monthly rolling contract, and Airband says its renewals team gets in touch before that happens.

Airband sets its mid-contract price rises in advance. Each package page shows the fixed monthly price that applies from April 2027 and from April 2028, in pounds and pence, and the higher price you will pay once the 24-month term has finished. That matches Ofcom's rules: since 17 January 2025 providers must tell you in pounds and pence, before you sign up, exactly how much your monthly price will rise and when, and inflation-linked rises are no longer allowed in new contracts. Look at those future prices, not just the starting price, when you compare.

Other terms worth knowing:

• You have a 14-day cooling-off period after ordering, during which you can cancel without penalty.
• Early termination fees apply if you leave before the end of your minimum term.
• Installation includes up to 20 metres of standard connecting cable from the receiver to the router. Longer runs or other cabling are quoted separately.
• Every installation is subject to a survey, and offers do not apply if Airband cannot complete the installation at your property.

Since 12 September 2024, switching broadband provider in the UK uses Ofcom's One Touch Switch process: you contact only the new provider, your current provider then sends you important information about the switch, including what leaving your current deal would cost, and the new provider arranges the switch with your old provider for the date you choose. Airband says it will start the One Touch Switch process for you if you are eligible, and its switching guide says you do not need to cancel your current broadband before ordering.

Because Airband builds its own connections, joining usually means a new installation rather than a simple switch on an existing line:

1. Check and order. Use the comparison above or Airband's checker to see which packages your address can get, then order.
2. Survey. Airband aims to survey your property within 10 working days of your order, and someone needs to be at home.
3. Installation. Where possible the engineer installs during the survey visit and sets up the router. Survey and installation are free. In towns and cities, Airband says homes are usually quick to connect because the fibre is already on or near your street, and you can often set the service up yourself once the router arrives.
4. Up and running. Airband says it typically takes up to three weeks to get connected.

If you are still in a contract with another provider, check your exit fees before you order, and ask Airband whether it can help with them; its terms say it cannot offer a contract buyout on services run over a third-party network. Our guide to switching broadband providers covers the process step by step.

Strengths

• Its own network is built specifically for rural and hard-to-reach communities.
• Symmetrical full fibre, with uploads as fast as downloads on every Fibre tier, from 150Mbps to 900Mbps.
• Fixed wireless up to 1000Mbps download where Airband's newest masts reach, with no digging needed.
• A WiFi 6 mesh router, free survey and installation, and no phone line or line rental on every package.
• Mid-contract price rises are fixed and shown upfront for each April of the contract.
• A 4.2 out of 5 TrustScore from nearly 12,000 Trustpilot reviews (checked 8 October 2026).

Things to consider

• Availability is patchy by design: only some addresses in some counties, so many households cannot get it.
• Wireless upload speeds are much lower than download speeds, and wireless needs a clear radio path to a mast.
• Ownership has just changed. Voneus took over at the end of August 2026, the old company is in administration and the two businesses are being integrated; services continue, but future packages and terms are now Voneus's decision.
• Installation takes a survey and can take up to three weeks, so plan ahead if you are moving home.
• 12-month contracts are phone-only, and there are no Airband TV or mobile bundles.
• Deals over Openreach or 4G at addresses outside Airband's own network may come with different speeds and equipment.

If Airband reaches your address, the most useful comparisons are with other networks that also serve rural and regional areas. To see every provider at your postcode, use our main broadband deals comparison; these are the pages to read alongside this one:

• Voneus: Airband's new owner, a rural network using both fibre and wireless technology. It offers Netgem TV, Norton security, digital home phone and smart WiFi bundles to its own customers, so it may suit you if you want TV in the same package.
• Gigaclear: builds full fibre for communities outside major towns, including in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset where Airband also has a presence. Like Airband's Fibre tiers, its speeds are symmetrical, but it sells 18-month contracts rather than 24.
• Truespeed: an independent full fibre network that grew across the rural South West, with location pages for Somerset and North Somerset, where Airband also has a presence. Its packages are symmetrical like Airband's Fibre tiers, it offers 12, 18 and 24-month contracts, and it says it will not raise your price during the contract, a clear contrast with Airband's fixed April rises.
• Ogi: a full fibre network building across South Wales. Airband switched on its first gigabit wireless mast in Wales at Pontypridd in June 2026. Ogi's advertised upload speeds are a tenth of its download speeds (for example 900Mbps down and 90Mbps up on Ogi 1Gig), so where both reach you, Airband's symmetrical fibre may suit heavy uploaders better.
• Three: if neither fibre nor fixed wireless reaches you, Three Home Broadband works differently: a 4G or 5G hub picks up Three's mobile signal, with no landline and no engineer visit. Whether it works at your home depends on the signal there, so check Three's coverage checker first.

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