Switching & contracts

How to cancel Fibrus broadband (2026)

How to cancel Fibrus broadband

The short answer

Moving to another provider at the same address? You don't need to contact Fibrus at all: your new provider runs the switch, and Fibrus must send you the switching information, including any early termination charge (the fee for leaving before your minimum term ends). If nobody is taking over your broadband, you give notice to Fibrus yourself, normally 30 days, and then post the eero routers back in the returns box Fibrus sends you.

This guide follows Fibrus's terms for contracts starting on or after 1 May 2025 and its help pages as published during 2026. Fibrus's own full fibre network is in Northern Ireland and rural Cumbria, and elsewhere it also sells over Openreach's network (its 'Off-net' areas); its legal page lists one set of residential terms, with separate Off-net price and product guides. The general rules are in our guides to cancelling broadband and leaving broadband without an exit fee.

Before you start: three things to find

  • Your minimum term and charges. Fibrus's billing help page says these are in your order acceptance email. Your minimum term runs from the date your service went live, not the order date.
  • Which terms you're on. Fibrus's legal page lists one set of residential terms for contracts starting on or after 1 May 2025 and separate sets for contracts from 1 August 2024 and for those up to 31 July 2024. If you joined earlier, check your own terms, as details may differ.
  • What else is on the account. Fibrus Talk (its home phone service) and Fibrus TV both run over the broadband connection, so plan for them too. If you joined with help from Fibrus's Contract Buy Out scheme, read the section on it below before you set a leaving date.

Switching away or cancelling outright?

Your route decides who you contact and how much notice runs. Our guide to switching broadband providers explains One Touch Switch in full.

Leaving Fibrus by One Touch Switch

Fibrus's terms give 14 days' notice for leaving through an approved switching process. But ISPreview's report of Ofcom's switching rules says the old provider keeps your service going on the same terms until the new one is live, the contract then ends automatically, and home customers can't be charged for notice beyond the switch date. So if Fibrus's switching information mentions a notice charge running past your switch date, query it.

When you cancel directly

If no new provider is taking over at the same address (moving abroad, moving in with someone, or going mobile-only), nobody tells Fibrus for you, so contact it yourself.

How to cancel Fibrus, step by step

Fibrus's terms (clause 14.5) say you end your agreement by notifying Customer Support. Its cancellation help page, as published in April 2026, pointed customers to the Retentions team. Clause 20.1 lists the ways to reach Customer Support:

  • Phone: 0800 099 1111 in Great Britain, 028 9099 3230 in Northern Ireland. For cancelling, the help page said to call 028 9099 3230 and choose option 3 for Retentions. It gave no separate Retentions route for Great Britain, so if you're in Cumbria, call either number and ask for the team that handles ending contracts.
  • Online Chat or WhatsApp, both reached from Fibrus's contact page.
  • The Fibrus eero app.
  • Letter to Fibrus Broadband, 108-113 Dargan Crescent, Belfast BT3 9JP.

In January 2026 Fibrus's contact page listed Customer Service hours of 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm at weekends, but separate, shorter hours for the Customer Loyalty Team: 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on Saturday and closed on Sunday. By September 2026 its website also had a new support centre with an 'Ending your contract' article, so check that for the current route before you call.

Then:

  1. Call Retentions (option 3), or use chat, WhatsApp or the app, and say you're ending your contract, not switching. Have your account details and service address ready.
  2. Ask for four things: the date your agreement will end, any Termination Fee (Fibrus's term for the early exit charge) and how it was worked out, when the returns box will be sent, and what your final bill should include.
  3. Get it in writing. Ask for an email confirming the end date, or follow up by chat or WhatsApp summarising what was agreed.

See our guide on how to contact your broadband provider for keeping a record.

Fibrus notice periods

Fibrus's terms (clause 14.6) set four notice periods. The agreement ends when the notice period runs out (clause 14.8). The terms tie only cooling-off cancellations to the date Fibrus receives your notice; they don't say when the 30-day or 14-day count starts, so ask Fibrus to confirm your end date in writing.

Why you're leaving

Notice in Fibrus's terms

Cancelling in the cooling-off period

None: cancelled on the date Fibrus receives your notice

Moving home

30 days

Switching to another provider through an approved switching process

14 days (but see the One Touch Switch rule above)

Any other reason

30 days

Fibrus's cancellation help page says you can cancel at any time with 30 days' notice; what it costs depends on your minimum term.

Tip: if your minimum term is nearly over, time your notice to run out on or after its end date; clause 14.7(c) charges no Termination Fee after the minimum term.

What leaving Fibrus early costs

Fibrus's terms (clause 14.7) split the cost of leaving into three cases.

In the cooling-off period

Fibrus's terms define the cooling-off period as running from the day your agreement is made until 14 days after the latest of three dates: when you receive your Order Confirmation, when the Service Equipment is delivered, or when your service starts. So you can cancel before installation, as well as for 14 days after it. Fibrus's cancellation help page simply says 14 days from installation.

Cancelling in cooling-off means no Termination Fee, and the cancellation takes effect the day Fibrus receives your notice (clause 3.4). If your service has already started, clause 3.5 says you still pay any installation fee, the charges for the time the service was available, call charges and any activation charge. Clause 3.6 adds the cost of any non-standard installation you asked for and the repair or replacement of damaged equipment. If you joined through the Contract Buy Out scheme (below), its terms say Fibrus only pays the contribution once you're installed and haven't cancelled in cooling-off. Our guide to the broadband cooling-off period covers the legal background.

During your minimum term

Leave outside cooling-off but before your minimum term ends, for a reason the terms don't excuse, and you pay a Termination Fee plus any charges you owe (clause 14.7(d)). Fibrus's billing help page says the fee is calculated as the remainder of the minimum term's rental between the cancellation date and the date the minimum term ends.

An example to show how the rule reads (not a quote): if your agreement ends with eight months of a 24-month minimum term still to run, the help page's formula means paying the monthly rental for those eight months. Fibrus's December 2025 price guide lists no separate cancellation fee on top. Ask Fibrus to confirm in writing the monthly figure and number of months it used.

After your minimum term

Once the minimum term is over there's no Termination Fee: you pay only charges owed up to your end date (clause 14.7(c)). Fibrus's price guide says it doesn't raise prices mid-contract and that, when the minimum term ends, your monthly price moves to its out-of-contract rate until you agree a new term. If that rate is why you're leaving, ask Fibrus what a new contract would cost and compare it with Fibrus broadband deals and other fibre broadband deals before you decide. Our guide to price promises and mid-contract price rises explains how Fibrus's no-rise approach compares.

When you can leave without a Termination Fee

Clause 14.7(b) lets you end the agreement during the minimum term without a Termination Fee, though charges already owed are still payable, if:

  • you're ending it because of a change Fibrus makes to the agreement under clause 10.2;
  • Fibrus has broken a significant term of the agreement;
  • you have persistent, repeated or frequent faults that aren't put right within a reasonable time;
  • your speeds are regularly lower than the estimate in your Order Confirmation and that isn't put right within a reasonable time;
  • Fibrus agrees, after an individual assessment, that its service is consistently below what you might reasonably expect;
  • you're moving and Fibrus can't serve the new address; or
  • Fibrus has suspended the service, or said it will, for more than 30 days in a row.

If you're relying on faults or speed, keep fault references, dates and wired speed test results. Our broadband speed test gives you a dated reading to quote.

Full Fibre Essential

Full Fibre Essential is Fibrus's social tariff, sold on a 12-month contract. Its support page (September 2026) says Fibrus will not charge early termination fees if you need to end it during the 12 months. The page doesn't give a different notice period, so plan around the notice in the terms. Our guide to broadband social tariffs explains eligibility across providers.

The Total Home Wi-Fi Guarantee exit

On packages that include it, Fibrus guarantees at least 10Mbps download in every eligible room. Its help page (May 2026) says that if this still isn't reached after troubleshooting, an extra eero and an engineer visit, you can cancel without early termination fees '30 days after the last service contact'; Fibrus's October 2025 Products and Services Guide says within 30 days of the engineer visit. To be safe, act within 30 days of the visit and ask Fibrus to confirm in writing that the guarantee wasn't met.

The October 2025 guide adds that you must have followed Fibrus's reasonable instructions, and you still pay for broadband up to cancellation and any non-standard installation work. There's no money compensation. Our Fibrus installation guide sets out which rooms qualify, and our guide to provider Wi-Fi guarantees compares the schemes.

If Fibrus paid your old provider's exit fee

Fibrus's Contract Buy Out scheme contributes towards the exit fee from your previous provider when you join on a contract of 18 months or more. Fibrus has published at least three versions of its terms in 2026 (February, May and July), and all three include the same clause 13: if your Fibrus contract ends early, other than because of a breach by Fibrus that it has accepted, Fibrus can take back part of the payment. The share is the payment divided by the months in your contract term, multiplied by the complete months left when it ends.

If you joined through the scheme, find the version that applied when you signed up, ask Fibrus whether a clawback applies, and include it in your sums before you set a leaving date.

Moving home

Fibrus's moving-home help page says to give at least 30 days' notice and arrange the move through Customer Services on 028 9099 3230. Only Customer Services can arrange the move, even if the postcode checker shows the new address can be connected; if it can't, call the same number about ending your contract.

The terms (clause 15) say that during your minimum term Fibrus carries on providing the service at your new address where it can. If it can't, you can end the agreement without a Termination Fee. If you're staying with Fibrus, it will tell you what to do with your router and battery backup unit; its terms (clause 5.3) say it may let you take them to the new address. See broadband when you move home for the wider checklist, or look up broadband deals by area for the new address.

Returning your eero router

Item

What Fibrus says to do

Every eero router, with its power and Ethernet cables

Send back

The wall-mounted ONT (optical network terminal, the box the fibre plugs into)

Leave on the wall; don't remove it

Fibrus Talk phone adapter and any Battery Back-up Unit

No need to return; take them to the e-waste area at your local recycling centre

Fibrus's terms (clause 5.3) add that it may tell you to leave the routers at the property, for example for a new customer moving in.

How the return works

Fibrus's eero returns page (June 2026) describes the process:

  1. Fibrus sends a returns box with dividers, a pre-paid label and a leaflet.
  2. Pack the eero router or routers with their power and Ethernet cables.
  3. Stick the pre-filled returns label over the existing delivery sticker.
  4. Post it at a Post Office.

Lost or damaged the box before posting? Tell Fibrus straight away for a replacement. The terms (clause 5.5) say the return is complete when Fibrus receives or collects the kit, so ask for a proof of postage receipt and keep it until your final bill is settled.

The 30-day deadline and charges

The returns page says the equipment must be back within 30 days of the returns box being sent to you, not from when you open it. If any eero isn't received within that time, Fibrus charges for each missing device, at a rate set by model in its price guide: the eero Pro 6E costs more than the eero 6+. The terms (clause 5.7) add that paying the charge doesn't make the router yours.

Fibrus also inspects what comes back and can charge for repair, replacement or loss in value if it was damaged through a breach of your responsibilities (clauses 5.6 and 14.9). If something was lost or broken, see lost or damaged broadband equipment.

Before packing the eeros, note your WiFi name and password (see keeping devices connected when you switch). If you have Fibrus TV, ask Fibrus what to do with its equipment: we found no published return rule for it.

Your final bill and any refund

Fibrus bills monthly in advance by Direct Debit and emails each invoice. It doesn't publish how many days after you leave the final bill arrives. Its terms set out what goes on it:

  • Charges up to your end date, and the Termination Fee if one applies (clauses 14.10 and 8.4).
  • Any non-return charge for routers, which goes on your next monthly bill or your final bill.
  • A refund of anything paid upfront, less what you owe, by the same payment method unless you agree otherwise, with no fee for receiving it (clauses 14.11 and 14.13).

Fibrus emails you two working days before each Direct Debit collection, so check that email against what you were told. Keep the Direct Debit until the final bill is settled. If a figure looks wrong, our guide to disputing a broadband bill explains what to do.

Keeping your Fibrus Talk number

Fibrus Talk is a digital (VoIP) phone service that runs over the broadband, so it ends when the broadband does. To keep the number, ask your new phone provider to transfer (port) it as part of the switch. Those are Ofcom's general rules rather than Fibrus-specific steps: ISPreview's report of them says you can port a number for one month after your contract ends and can't be charged for porting. Fibrus's terms (clause 16) point to a page on its website about moving numbers, which we couldn't open, so ask Customer Support if you can't find it.

If you're cancelling outright, decide about the number before your end date rather than relying on the one-month window. Our guide to keeping your landline number when you switch covers the process with other providers.

If something goes wrong

If your notice isn't acted on or you dispute a charge, complain to Customer Support first. Fibrus's complaints code says you can then escalate to its Customer Experience Team at customerexperience@fibrus.com, which acknowledges within 48 working hours and aims to respond within 10 working days.

Fibrus's alternative dispute resolution (ADR) scheme is the Communications Ombudsman, which is free. Fibrus's July 2024 code still says eight weeks, which now applies only to complaints first raised before 8 April 2026. For complaints raised on or after that date you can go to the Ombudsman after six weeks, or sooner with a deadlock letter (written confirmation from Fibrus that it can't resolve your complaint). See our guide on how to complain about your broadband provider, and to compare other altnets' leaving rules, cancelling a smaller full fibre provider.

Your Fibrus leaving checklist

  1. Find your minimum term end date and charges in your order acceptance email.
  2. Switching? Order with the new provider and read Fibrus's switching information. Otherwise, call Retentions (028 9099 3230, option 3) or use another Customer Support channel and give 30 days' notice.
  3. Get your end date and any Termination Fee breakdown in writing, citing any fee-free exit that applies.
  4. Check whether a Contract Buy Out clawback applies.
  5. Ask your new provider to port your Fibrus Talk number.
  6. Post the eeros and cables back within 30 days of the returns box being sent; keep proof of postage. Leave the ONT on the wall.
  7. Keep the Direct Debit until the final bill is settled, and check it line by line.

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Cancelling Fibrus FAQs

How do I cancel my Fibrus broadband?

If you're switching to another provider at the same address, contact only the new provider; Fibrus must send you the switching information, including any early termination charge. If you're cancelling outright, notify Fibrus Customer Support: its 2026 help page said to call Retentions on 028 9099 3230, option 3.

How much notice does Fibrus need?

Fibrus's terms for contracts from 1 May 2025 ask for 30 days' notice if you're moving home or leaving for any other reason, and 14 days for an approved switch, though Ofcom's switching rules stop notice charges after your switch date. Cooling-off cancellations take effect when Fibrus receives your notice.

Do I have to pay to leave Fibrus early?

Inside your minimum term, outside cooling-off, Fibrus charges a Termination Fee: its billing page says this is the remaining rental between the cancellation date and the end of the minimum term, plus any charges owed. There's no fee after the minimum term, and none in the specific cases listed in clause 14.7(b) of its terms.

Can I leave Fibrus Full Fibre Essential early without a fee?

Yes. Fibrus's Full Fibre Essential support page (September 2026) says it will not charge early termination fees if you need to end the social tariff during its 12-month contract. You still give notice, pay charges up to your end date and return the eero.

Can I cancel Fibrus if the Total Home Wi-Fi Guarantee isn't met?

Yes, without early termination fees, if 10Mbps still can't be reached in every eligible room after troubleshooting, an extra eero and an engineer visit. Fibrus's pages give the window as 30 days after the last service contact or within 30 days of the engineer visit, so act within 30 days of the visit.

How do I return my Fibrus eero router, and what if I don't?

Fibrus sends a returns box with a pre-paid label. Pack every eero with its power and Ethernet cables and post it at a Post Office. Fibrus must receive them within 30 days of sending the box, or it charges for each missing router at its price-guide rate.

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