Starlink Quietly Add £8 Roaming Plan to UK Satellite Broadband Service
SpaceX’s Starlink service, which offers ultrafast broadband speeds via a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appears to have quietly added a new and super cheap £8 per month roaming plan for customers in the UK. But as usual, there are a few catches to consider.
At present Starlink has over 7,000 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (c.3,00 are v2 Mini / GEN 2A) – mostly at 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’ unlimited data plan (inc. £19 postage), which promises latency times of 25-60ms, downloads of 25-100Mbps and uploads of 5-10Mbps.
However, Starlink has previously also introduced a couple of ROAM plans for “RVs, nomads, and campers, and working on the go“, which tends to cost either £50 per month with a 50GB (GigaByte) monthly usage allowance or £96 if you want unlimited usage (plus £299 to £399 for the hardware and £19 shipping). Service performance on ROAM can be more variable, but it does support in-motion use, international travel and the ability to pause your service when not in use. Handy.
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The big news today, as spotted by Stewart on ISPreview’s discussion forum (here), is that Starlink appears to have added a third roam plan that only costs £8 per month with a 20GB usage allowance (not much, but ideal as a short-term backup)! The catch is that this plan doesn’t currently show up for new customers, but existing subscribers seem to be shown the option when they attempt to unpause an already paused service.
In an ideal world, we’d like to see Starlink offering something similar to this plan on their Standard fixed location package. But this is still going to be very attractive for those who only need it as a backup or for limited usage in rural areas, as well as travel. Hopefully the provider will make this available to new sign-ups too, although there’s still the cost of hardware to consider.
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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It’s a shame Musk has made the service and the rest of his brands toxic.
I think the opposite. All his companies and ideas are logically connected, driving greatness that is transforming the world for the better in countless ways—no one comes close.
Ironically, I believe the real problem is that technology has disproportionately empowered unproductive people to speak out against their benefactors, ultimately making the system self-destructive.
Bob your comment may as well have been composed by Musk’s Grok AI chatbot.
Though I agree that all his companies are logically [in his mind at-least] connected, to further his fantastical goal of a Martian colony within his lifetime.
Sadly for him, he’ll only ever be king of his Twitter sandcastle, the red Martian sand will forever be beyond his reach.
not too fond of him
can you show me an alternative for roaming users / users where there’s no broadband or mobile connection please?
Anon: Currently Starlink is best option for those use case scenarios, hence why I stated it’s a shame that it’s a toxic brand now.
There are alternatives, however they’re more expensive and inferior.
Next best available option would likely be via Eutelsat’s Konnect GEO satellite, services for that are provided by Brdy in the UK AFAIK. Being in LEO latency would probably be in-excess of ten times that of Starlink.
I don’t think there is one. I have a Mini Dish and this is actually great for me. I spent £96 and only ended up using 21Gv anyway. Kind of regret that.
The problem is you can’t just but another 20GB you have to pay 2.50 per GB extra – which would just make me regret it twice! (my original cockup was something like £.360 per GB
Surprised that People use Musk’s PayPal, but then it’s easier to boycott brands you would never have bought anyway…
The name Space Karen is absolutely spot on
Iridium and Viasat? If you can wait, Amazon’s coming up with something soon, as well as Orbcomm. And there is always the off chance that Oneweb might actually launch a service before the climate collapses.
Just looking for alternatives myself as really don’t want to put any money, no matter how small an amount, in to the pockets of Elon Musk so have decided to stay on mobile 4g for the moment and wait for project Kuiper from Amazon which has approval in the UK and “should” be available this year.
There are two satellites in orbit for test. The plan was to deploy satellites using a variety of launch providers, whilst that is still the case, none have launched. If it happens, it’s many years away, there will be no Amazon solution this year or probably next.
Just because of this comment I will go ahead and buy a Tesla. Elon Musk is doing great for humanity but communists hate the fact that he’s allowing people to speak and cutting government waste
Kuiper has only the 2 test sats in orbit.
According to it’s license from the US FCC it needs to have half it’s constellation in orbit by July 30, 2026 – giving it 16 months from today to launch ~1,600 sats.
That’s 40 a month (they are putting 27 up on their first launch) to hit that target.
They need to start launching in rapid succession with no issues, or else they may face missing their license deadline and the complication that comes with that.
We’re over 6 launches away from the system even being opened to wholesale testing and beta users – for general consumption we’re a few years away at least.
Oh dear.
Canada cancelled $100m starlink deal and boycotting tesla due to tariffs so he must try and claim some money back
No, the governor of one province threatened to, but hasn’t actually done it.
It was a contract only for 15,000 homes, in reality starlink is the best technical solution for that problem, and those that can afford to have already got a starlink install, the governors words are just posturing, and harming those who can’t afford to system themselves.
To put that 15k into context, they have approx 2 million customers in Canada – so the 15k would be 0.75% of business.
Simin, Musk sold his shares in PayPal since 2002.
8 Quid? Sounds like a mistake to me? I hope im wrong though.
Take a look at how rapidly the costs accelerate if you exceed the low usage limit. It’s a trap.
Only way I would consider that package would be with micro-router that would track and limit usage to ensure I didn’t go above the limit.
But as Musk is a CEO with substantial ownership, not under consideration anyway.