Orange usurps Talk Talk as most complained about broadband provider Talk Talk has topped the quarterly league table since the record began in 2010, but the telecoms company has finally surrendered its unenviable crown after a surge in complaints about its rival. Orange, which is owned by Britain's biggest mobile operator, EE, angered customers in the three months to the end of September after it changed the rules around its home broadband service. The company had been offering free home broadband services to its mobile customers but said in September that they would lose the free service unless they agreed to pay £14 a month to rent a telephone line from the firm. Ofcom received around double the number of complaints about Orange than in the previous quarter, largely from customers who has expected to keep the free service until the end of their mobile contract. "The spike in complaints came at around the same time as the company withdrew its free broadband offer, which reflects how customers felt about the changes," said an Ofcom spokesman. On average, 0.5 customers in every 1000 Orange customers complained about the broadband service in the three-month period, compared to an industry average of 0.24. At the other end of the spectrum, Sky and Virgin Media had the most satisfied broadband customers. The number of angry Talk Talk broadband customers fell from 0.42 to 0.35 per 1000, suggesting it is starting to make headway in reversing its track record of poor customer service. The business has been dogged by a reputation for bad customer service since its acquisition of Tiscali UK in 2009, and was last year fined £3m by Ofcom for sending the wrong bills to 650,000 customers. Talk Talk still has considerable work to do when it comes to its landline telephone services, where it continued to top the poll as the most complained about provider. However, complaints were lower than in the previous quarter.