It covers a wide variety of broadband and TV providers – essentially those available via the Decision Tech data stream, which powers our tool. These include big names such as BT, Plusnet, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, as well as smaller providers such as Pop Telecom, Hyperoptic and Cuckoo.
Our editorial team then manually try to spot other deals that beat those, from other comparison sites and nationwide providers, as usually the cheapest deals are short-lived promotions. If we spot market-leading deals elsewhere, we do our best to add them to the tool, in addition to deals we blag specially for MSE users.
Also, some providers may restrict access to their exclusive deals, though we continually work to get as many into the tool as possible within the scope of our limited resources. While this doesn't cover the whole market, with all these added together we hope that we have more deals than other comparisons.
We're always happy to hear about deals we might have missed – let us know by emailing the details to brokenlink@moneysavingexpert.com. We'll take a look to see if it's good enough to include.
See who we don't compare
Sadly, it is incredibly difficult to do a comparison that covers the whole market. This is because there are numerous firms that only cover limited regions that do not provide a data feed, meaning we'd have to manually input them all, which is a mega task. Yet there are a lot of small local providers that we can't list which occasionally may have cheap deals, so if you know of ones near you then it's always worth checking those too. Here's a list of some smaller providers that we don't include...
Alncom (Northumberland), B4RN (Lancashire and parts of Norfolk), B4SH (Surrey), Brighton Fibre, Brsk (Birmingham and parts of the North West), Cambridge Fibre, Connect Fibre, Connexin (Humberside), County Broadband Fibre (East Anglia), F4RN (Nottinghamshire), FibreNest (Persimmon Homes), Freedom Fibre (parts of the North West), Fusion Fibre, Hey Broadband, Glide, G.Network (London), Grain Connect, Hampshire Community Broadband, Jurassic Fibre (parts of the South West), Lightning Fibre (East Sussex), LightSpeed (parts of East Anglia), Lit Fibre, Lothian Broadband, MS3 (Humberside), OFNL (some new-build homes), OGI, (parts of South Wales), Pine Media (parts of Sheffied), Run Fibre (parts of Somerset), Swish Fibre, Toob (Southampton and parts of Hampshire), Voneus, WeFibre, Wessex Internet, Wight Fibre (Isle of Wight), Wildcard Networks (Newcastle upon Tyne).