Hyperoptic referral code: get a voucher worth £25 to £75

Hyperoptic's public pages say “up to £75” and stop there. The breakdown exists only in the email sent to a referrer on registration, quoted here in full:

The email's own wording: “The voucher value depends on the speed and contract length of the broadband package your friend chooses.”

Why this matters before you order. The gap between the top and bottom tier is £50, and it is decided by two dropdowns during checkout. A reader who assumed “up to £75” meant £75 and picked a 12-month 150Mb package receives £25. That is not a penalty, it is simply the tier, but nobody tells you at the point where you choose.

The cap is 20 referrals a year and £1,500, which reconciles exactly with the top tier: 20 lots of £75.

Most UK broadband referral schemes are closed to non-customers, so this is worth being precise about. Hyperoptic's own page says: “Customers log in to My Account and visit the ‘Referrals’ tab. Non-customers register [here]”, linking to its referrer registration form (opens in new tab).

I registered through that form on 7 August 2026. It asked for an email address and a full name, nothing about an account, and the confirmation email arrived with the link and the tier table on it.

Business referrals count too. The refer-and-earn page describes the qualifying order as a residential package. The registration email is broader: “both home and business broadband connections are eligible”, and it names the qualifying service as “residential or business”. If you are ordering for a company, that is worth knowing, because the public page reads as though you cannot.

There are three separate ways this reward disappears, and only one of them is obvious.

The comparison-site rule is the one that catches people. Hyperoptic's words: “Only orders placed directly with Hyperoptic are eligible for rewards, so you cannot use a price comparison website or affiliate link first (even if you click through to Hyperoptic to buy).” The parenthesis is doing real work. Opening a comparison site, then typing hyperoptic.com yourself, is enough to break it.

That rules out stacking this with cashback. If you hold TopCashback or Quidco, the habit of checking cashback before every purchase is the wrong habit here: a few pounds of cashback would cost you up to £75.

The code is a second step, not the same step as the link. Hyperoptic requires the friend to “select ‘I was referred’ during the order process, and provide the code that was emailed” to the referrer. The link carries the code, but if the order form asks for it, the code on this page is what goes in the box.

And it is a new-customer scheme. An existing Hyperoptic account at the same address does not qualify.

Three years is long enough to have an opinion, and long enough ago that it needs dating rather than presenting as current service.

The thing that stood out was how little attention it needed. One outage across three years, no engineer callouts, and speed tests that came back at the number on the bill rather than a fraction of it. Full fibre into the building rather than to a street cabinet is the reason usually given for that, and it matched what I saw at 8pm on a weekday.

At about £34 a month for 1Gb in 2018 to 2021, it was also not the cheapest line available at the time, and it is not priced there now. Check the current rate on Hyperoptic's own site rather than trusting a five-year-old figure, including this one.

What I cannot tell you is whether any of that still holds in 2026, because I have not been a customer since I moved. Hyperoptic is due to reach my current address, and my contract with Home Telecom ends in mid-October 2026, so this section gets rewritten from current use rather than memory when that happens.

This is the first thing to check and the reason a lot of readers of this page cannot use it.

Hyperoptic's model is to bring fibre into a building and distribute it internally, which is efficient in a block of 60 flats and uneconomic for a row of terraces. Its own FAQ splits its answers on “I live in an apartment building” versus “I live in a house”, which tells you where the network is.

Check your postcode on Hyperoptic's site before reading any further about the voucher. If your building is not connected, no referral link helps, and the honest answer is that one of the regional networks may serve you instead: Quickline in rural Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Humber, toob around Southampton, Airband across Devon, Wales and the west, or Zzoomm in market towns.