Starlink Broadband Launch Mini Dish and Mini Roam Service in UK
Customers of SpaceX’s ultrafast and low-latency Starlink broadband service may like to know that the ISP has finally launched their new WiFi (only 802.11ac / Wi-Fi 5) integrated Mini Dish (terminal) hardware and Mini Roaming service add-on in the United Kingdom, which ends up being a little more expensive than its counterpart in the USA.
The operator currently has 6,281 LEO satellites (c.2,000 are GEN 2A) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO altitudes of c.500-600km) and they’re in the process of adding thousands more by the end of 2027. Customers in the UK typically pay from £75 a month for a 30-day term, plus £299 for hardware on the ‘Standard’ plan, which promises internet latency times of 25-60ms, downloads of c. 25-100Mbps and uploads of c. 5-10Mbps.
However, last month saw Starlink invite some of their early adopters in the USA to purchase their new Mini Kit (Dish) for $599 (here), which came bundled alongside a new Mini Roam service for an additional $30 per month. Just to be clear, this is on top of an existing residential subscription and the Mini Roam service gave customers 50GB (GigaBytes) of “mobile data” that can be used anywhere in the country – rising to $1 (£0.80p) per GigaByte thereafter.
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The good news today is that Starlink last night began sending out emails to confirm that this same service has now been made available in the UK, which confirms that the kit will cost £399 and the roaming service is much more expensive than in the USA at £50 per month.
Copy of Starlink’s Email
Starlink Mini Now Available
Starlink Mini is a compact, portable kit that can easily fit in a backpack, designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go.
Starlink Mini includes a built-in WiFi router, lower power consumption, DC power input, and max download speeds over 100 Mbps*. See Starlink Mini specifications here.
The Starlink Mini Kit can be purchased for £399 with either the Mini Roam 50GB service plan for £50/mo or the unlimited Mobile Regional plan for £85/mo. Learn more on starlink.com/roam.
Available Service Plans
Mini Roam 50GB | £50/mo
Best for weekend travelers, backup internet, and in-motion useIncludes 50GB of Mobile data (£1/GB for additional data), coverage throughout Europe, and in-motion use on land. See our Terms of Service regarding in-motion use.
Mobile Regional | £85/mo
Best for caravans, motorhomes, campers, and travelers throughout a continentIncludes unlimited Mobile data on land and coverage throughout Europe. Ocean and global travel available for an additional £1.98/GB.
Just to recap. The new dish – sized 298.5mm x 259mm x 38.5mm – is 63% lighter than the standard Starlink dish, has an operating temperature range of -30°C to 50°C (-22°F to 122°F), draws around 25-40 Watts on average and can run directly off 12-48V DC (it comes with a small 110V power supply with 15 metres of cable).
The kit is also IP67 Type 4 rated with their DC Power Cable and Starlink Plug/Cable installed (using the Ethernet port drops this rating). The dish has a Field of View (FoV) of 110 degrees (slightly better than ‘Standard’) and a single Ethernet (LAN) port.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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I never got an e-mail about it but I checked daily and ordered mine Tuesday night on the Standard Roam. Much easier than lugging the gen 2 about when travelling. Also it runs on DC5521 so handy for a 12v/DC5521 adapter for the powerbank/car
I think it’s a little disappointing they didn’t just make it run from USB-C PD, but iirc they sell a (probably overpriced) first party C->barrel jack cable.
I suppose having the usb c circuitry inside is just another thing to potentially fail.
@ben better to use PoE, it’s a network device
Do your own research by all means but reviews by owners on youtube do not look good
Dont be taken in by the marketing hype. Ofcom would term Starlink as “Superfast”
I see where this might be a useful solution but I never understood these marketing photos. There is a guy, presumably hiking and the dish is strapped to his back. My questions are: what do you need it for, how you are going to power it for any reasonable amount of time?
If they showed an off-road caravan, that’s a logical use case.
Also, this sounds quite overpriced compared to their normal plans. Is this that much expensive to provide on their network or are they just milking people?
If you think that’s expensive, look at the pricing for a Starlink Community Gateway. And work out how many connections you’d need off it for it to be viable (I’d say 750-1000 minimum, but that number sharing 1Gbps would be, ahem, interesting. And you’d still need over a grand each connection charge).
Mwood super fast compared to what,dial up? let’s see starlink stand toe toe with 5g
It’s super fast compared to all my other options I guess.
Never drops below 100mbps and off-peak up to 300mbps. Mobile coverage is very poor and ASDL is max 20mbps
But yeah compared to FTTB/P it’s limited.