toob vs Sky: bare broadband or the full bundle

toob and Sky can reach the same home over two different routes. toob sells on its own full fibre around Bournemouth, Poole and the Solent, and on CityFibre's network in towns across England and Scotland. Sky sells on Openreach's lines almost everywhere, and on CityFibre too where its deal says so. The trade-off is plain. toob is cheap broadband with nothing else attached and a small fixed rise. Sky bundles a landline, gift cards and the option of Sky TV, with a rise that comes with a way out.

How do toob and Sky compare at a glance?

The table takes prices, speeds, contract lengths, set-up fees, rewards and scheduled price rises from our live deal feed, so it matches the deals on our comparison pages today. The network, guarantee and exit-fee rows come from each provider's own pages, checked on 11 October 2026.

Is toob cheaper than Sky?

Tier for tier, yes by some distance on today's offer prices. When we checked on 11 October 2026, toob's Home 150 was £16 a month on 24 months, and its Home 900 was £19. Sky's Full Fibre 150 on CityFibre was £22 a month and its Gigafast on CityFibre £25, each with a £70 gift card and a £5 set-up fee that Sky credits back.

toob's price moves by £2 each April, so Home 900 goes from £19 to £21 and then £23, still below Sky's £25 for Gigafast on CityFibre at every stage. Sky's £70 gift card narrows the gap, worth about £3 a month spread across a 24-month term, but doesn't close it. Sky schedules no rise in our feed, though its terms allow one with a month's notice, covered below.

Both sets of prices are online offers and they change, so read the live table rather than either headline.

Which is faster, and does upload speed matter?

Every toob deal is symmetric, so it uploads as fast as it downloads. Sky's full fibre on Openreach uploads far more slowly than it downloads, while its 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps tiers on CityFibre outrun anything toob sells both ways.

For streaming and browsing, upload speed barely registers. It matters if you work from home on video calls, back up photos to the cloud, send large files or stream your own gaming. A 10GB folder takes about a minute and a half to upload at 900Mbps and about 13 minutes at 100Mbps.

Can the price go up during the contract?

Yes with both, and in different ways. toob's site describes "a small, fixed annual price increase": £2 a month each April from April 2027, and its terms say "your Monthly Service Price will increase annually as set out in your Order Confirmation". Every toob deal in our feed carries that schedule. On Home 900 that is £19, then £21, then £23.

Sky's deals in our feed carry no scheduled rise. Sky's terms in the feed say instead that "Sky must give you 1 month's notice for any mid-contract price rises". They add: "If you are unhappy with a mid-contract price rise, Sky will offer you the right to exit your contract". Sky's rise for broadband in April 2026 was £3 a month, as reported by ISPreview.

So toob gives you a small rise you can count on and no way out of it, because its terms only allow a penalty-free exit for "Significant Changes". Sky gives you no fixed amount, but a right to leave if a rise comes. Our price rise guide explains the rules behind both.

Do you want a landline, TV or a gift card?

Sky does all three. Its broadband page says "All our broadband services are inclusive of landline rental and Sky Pay As You Talk (£0pm) as standard", so a phone line comes with every deal. TV arrives as Sky Stream bundles, from £32 a month in our feed with Essential TV and Netflix included. Every Sky broadband deal in our feed also carries a gift card, from £40 to £100, and Sky's site offers "up to £200 towards your leaving fee" when you switch. Our Sky Stream channels guide covers the TV side.

toob sells broadband and nothing else. Its terms say "your service doesn't include telephony. If you need a fixed telephone service this can be provided by a third-party digital voice provider". There is no TV and no reward in our feed. If you've already moved to streaming apps and a mobile, that costs you nothing. If you still want a home phone number, Sky has it built in.

Which one guarantees your speed?

Sky is a signatory to Ofcom's Broadband Speeds Code, and its own Speed Guarantee page spells it out. Sky tells you your Guaranteed Minimum Download Speed when you order. If your speed falls below it "for at least 3 days in a row in the last 30 days", you can change package with no upfront fees or "Cancel your broadband contract early with no early termination charges". Sky's deals in our feed are also part of Ofcom's automatic compensation scheme.

toob is not a Code signatory and makes no minimum speed promise. Its terms say "We cannot guarantee fault free performance", and its paid Complete Wi-Fi add-on promises "35 Mbps or above in main living areas". We found no automatic compensation commitment on its site. If a written minimum speed matters to you, Sky has one and toob doesn't.

How do their service records compare?

Ofcom's complaints figures for January to March 2026 put Sky at 5 complaints per 100,000 broadband customers, below the industry average of 6. Ofcom does not report complaints for providers of toob's size, so there is no like-for-like figure. Both appear in the Trustpilot row of the table above, with the caveat that sits under it.

What about contract length and set-up?

toob sells 12 and 24-month deals in our feed, and the shorter term costs more each month: Home 900 was £19 on 24 months and £35 on 12 months when we checked. Sky's deals in our feed are all 24 months. Set-up is £0 with toob. Sky's deals carry a £5 upfront fee that, in the feed's words, "is credited back to your account".

What does it cost to leave early?

toob's charges page sets the fee at the "Amount of regular monthly home broadband service fee minus £7" for each remaining month, with its own example of £29 a month becoming £22 a month. Leave Home 900 at £19 with four months left and you'd owe £48, on the price we checked.

Sky publishes a set charge per product for each month left, with offer-price customers charged less. Our exit fee calculator models Sky at 60% of your monthly price, which tracks that published table, and has toob's rule built in exactly.

Where can you get both?

Sky is available at almost every address through Openreach, so the question is where toob has built or where CityFibre has. toob's own network covers Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, and the Solent towns of Southampton, Portsmouth, Fareham and Gosport, according to its locations page. Through CityFibre it sells in dozens more towns, from Bath and Cheltenham to Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Our area pages for Bournemouth, Poole, Southampton and Portsmouth list both providers. In a CityFibre town the two can run over the same fibre, so the choice there is purely about price, extras and terms. Check both at your postcode before you decide, because coverage within a town is street by street.

Why you might choose toob

• You want the lowest monthly price for the speed, with a rise of £2 a year that you can plan for.
• You upload as much as you download: video calls, cloud backups, streaming or large files.
• You don't want a landline or TV and would rather not pay for either.
• You'd like the option of a 12-month term.
• You want the exit fee to be simple: the monthly price less £7 for each month left.

Why you might choose Sky

• You want a landline included, or Sky TV through Sky Stream.
• You want a gift card now and switching credit towards your old provider's fee.
• You want a written minimum speed and a right to leave if it isn't met.
• You'd rather have a right to exit on any price rise than a known £2 step.
• toob hasn't reached your street, which is true for most of the UK.

How do you switch between them?

On toob's own network, or where Sky sells on Openreach, a switch means a new connection is installed rather than your line changing hands. One Touch Switch covers both. toob's terms say the new provider handles the notification and toob issues a final bill within 30 days, and Sky's broadband page says "We'll tell your old provider you're leaving so you don't have to". Under Ofcom's rules you shouldn't be without broadband for more than one working day. Our One Touch Switch guide has the steps.

Two things to check first. toob has no phone service, so a Sky landline number you want to keep needs a separate internet phone provider. And if you're mid-contract, the exit fee above applies to whichever provider you leave; Sky's switching credit can cover up to £200 of toob's, but toob offers nothing towards Sky's.

Sources and how we checked

Prices, speeds, contract lengths, set-up fees, rewards and scheduled rises come from our live deal feed, checked on 11 October 2026 and refreshed whenever the site updates. The rest comes from the sources below, read on the dates shown.

• toob, read 11 October 2026: charges and fees, terms and conditions, new speeds and contracts and locations pages.
• Sky, read 11 October 2026: broadband page and Speed Guarantee article; its price-rise notice and exit wording are quoted from Sky's own deal terms in our feed.
• Ofcom: telecoms complaints data for January to March 2026, and codes of practice for Speeds Code membership.
• ISPreview: Sky's April 2026 price rise.

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