toob referral code: get a £25 gift card

toob's wording, from its refer-a-friend page: “Not a toob customer? No problem! You don't need to be on our network to start earning. Anyone can register, share their unique link, and stack up unlimited rewards.” Its FAQ repeats it: “Anyone can be a referrer; you don't have to be a toob customer!”

That is rarer than it sounds. Of 44 UK broadband providers checked in August 2026, four let a non-customer refer, and the other three are Quickline, Hyperoptic and Airband. Everything else, including Virgin Media, YouFibre and Plusnet, requires the referrer to hold an account.

Registration confirmed this in practice. I registered on 7 August 2026: an email address, a full name, and a confirmation email with the link. Nothing asked about an account or an address.

This is the part worth reading twice, because the reward is not paid, it is claimed.

The notification requirement is the trap. toob states that staying subscribed to its refer-a-friend notifications is a condition of receiving the selection email. Unsubscribing from a broadband provider's marketing is an ordinary thing to do, and doing it after ordering is enough to lose a reward that has already been confirmed.

The referrer dashboard at toob.co.uk/refer shows pending referrals, which at least means the referring side can see something is in flight rather than waiting blind.

The exclusions are narrower than at Quickline, which requires a full 24 months, but they still catch two ordinary cases.

• Business does not count. Only home broadband qualifies, so ordering for a company or a mixed-use address is out.
• Shorter contracts do not count. 12 months is the floor.
• Different address. Referring somebody in the same household does not work.
• Another promotion replaces your £25. Use a discount code or another offer on the order and toob's terms give you that offer instead, unless its own terms say it combines with refer-a-friend. The referrer is paid either way, except on toob's £21-a-month 900 Mbps offer, whose terms exclude refer-a-friend altogether, so neither side is paid.
• Order through the link. A referral cannot be attached after the fact.

That last point matters if you use cashback sites. toob does not publish a rule disqualifying orders that touched a comparison site, unlike Hyperoptic, but the order still has to carry the referral attribution, and a cashback click-through immediately before checkout can overwrite it. Click the referral link last.

toob's page says “you both could win”, but its prize draw terms (opens in new tab) run two separate draws, so the referrer and the friend do not win as a pair. A new customer gets one entry. A referrer gets one entry for each qualifying referral, with no cap. toob publishes no entry count, so the odds cannot be worked out.

The second deadline is the one to watch. Orders close at 23:59 on 5 January 2027, but entry also waits on the connection going live, so an order held up by a slow installation can miss the draw and still earn the £25.

The winner chooses the card from Amazon.co.uk, Marks & Spencer, John Lewis, Just Eat, Tesco, Asda, Deliveroo, Currys, Argos, Boots or Costa Coffee, within 180 days of the redemption email. toob staff and their families are excluded from the draw, though not from the £25.

toob has no Which? assessment and little independent coverage, so a report from people actually on the network carries more weight here than it would for a national provider.

Theirs is a Virgin Media comparison rather than a copper-line one, which makes it a different data point to Quickline's rural switchers: the previous service was already fast, and the improvement they describe is in the overall experience rather than in raw headline speed.

This is one household's view and not a review. We have not used toob. toob's Trustpilot page is linked above if you want the volume rather than a single account.

The footprint is the reason most people reading this page cannot use it, and saying so early is more useful than burying it.

toob builds full fibre in and around Southampton and neighbouring Hampshire towns. Coverage grows as it builds, so an address that failed a check last year is worth re-checking.

Outside Hampshire, the other regional networks on this site are Quickline in rural Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Humber, Airband across Devon, Wales and the west, Zzoomm in market towns, and Hyperoptic in city apartment blocks. Between them they cover very different kinds of address, and almost nobody can order from more than one.