Starlink Launch Cheaper £55 Lite 250Mbps Broadband Plan in UK

Good news. SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, which reflects a mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has quietly launched a new “Residential Lite” package for consumers in the UK that drops the price of their unlimited usage plan to just £55 per month and offers speeds capped at up to 250Mbps.

Starlink currently has around 9,100 satellites in orbit (c.5,600 are v2 / V2 Mini) – mostly at altitudes of c.500-600km. Residential customers in the UK usually pay from £75 a month, plus £299 for hardware (currently free for many areas) on the ‘Standard Residential’ unlimited data plan (kit price may vary due to different offers) directly from Starlink, which promises UK latency times of 26-33ms, downloads of up to 400Mbps and uploads of c.15-35Mbps. Cheaper, albeit more restrictive (data capped), options also exist for roaming users (e.g. £50 per month for 50 GigaBytes of data).

However, we recently reported that Starlink seemed to be experimenting with a more affordable package in the USA (here), which we indicated could soon be coming to the UK; albeit probably not in an identical form to the USA as Starlink tends to structure their packages differently between countries (due to differences in ground stations, capacity / spectrum allocations, coverage etc.).

The good news today is that Starlink appears to have just refreshed their main unlimited residential packages and launched a more affordable option. This suddenly makes the service much more attractive to the mass market, although they do state that it’s currently only available in “select areas” (we’ve yet to find a UK location where it isn’t available).

New Starlink Plans for Unlimited Data

Residential Lite – 250Mbps
(Average peak hour download speeds of 175 Mbps)

£55 per month
£0 hardware
£19 shipping

Typical Speeds for this Package:
Download: 80-200 Mbps
Upload: 15-35 Mbps

Residential – 400Mbps+
(Average peak hour download speeds of 250 Mbps)

£75 per month
£0 hardware
£19 shipping

Typical Speeds for this Package:
Download: 135-305 Mbps
Upload: 20-40 Mbps

*Typical speeds are calculated globally and represent the 20th to 80th percentile of real user data. Speeds may vary based on your location.

The move doesn’t just reflect the ongoing enhancement of Starlink’s network, but it could also potentially be seen as an early shot toward staving off future competition from Amazon’s Leo service, which is due to launch a consumer package sometime later in 2026. But unlike Amazon, SpaceX can leverage the advantages of a more mature network via competitive pricing. Credits to Stewart on our forum for spotting the change (here).