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Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet appears to have followed recent price reductions for those taking their CityFibre based full fibre (FTTP) home broadband packages (here) by doing something similar on their Openreach based packages. For example, their top 1.6Gbps package has now dropped from £65 to just £56 per month.
The other discounts, as spotted by one of our readers (Shaun), include their 105Mbps package falling to £33 per month, while 500Mbps is now £39 per month and 910Mbps has dropped to £45. All packages are on an 18-month minimum term, including a FRITZ!Box 7530 AX Wi-Fi 6 wireless router (except on 1.6Gbps where it’s an Amazon eero Pro 6E by default), Static IP address and “free” setup.
The aforementioned pricing is currently targeted at new customers, although Zen does normally allow existing customers who are out of contract to re-contract at the new price. Zen also pledges to guarantee “no in-contract price increases“. We understand that Zen may have also reduced prices across some of their other packages on other altnets, but those have less coverage and so aren’t as relevant for most people.
Zen’s approach is in stark contrast to the huge mid-contract price hikes currently being applied by the market’s largest retail ISPs.