5% of those eligible for broadband social tariffs have signed up

An Ofcom study has revealed that while uptake of broadband social tariffs has quadrupled since January 2022, only 5.1% of those eligible have signed up, and around half don’t know about them.
An estimated 4.3 million households are eligible for broadband social tariffs, a scheme which provides people on Universal Credit and other benefits discounted broadband and mobile deals – however only 220,000 (or 5.1%) have snapped up the cheaper broadband deals, reckons Ofcom.
The study, put t