Starlink Cuts UK Home LEO Satellite Broadband Prices by £10 in Selected Areas

The Starlink service from SpaceX, which offers ultrafast broadband via a global network of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has cut the monthly prices of their residential plans for UK consumers by -£10 for the first six months of service. But the discounted price is only available to new customers who order by 30th April 2026.

Starlink currently has around 10,100 satellites in orbit – mostly at altitudes of between c.340-550km. Residential customers in the UK usually pay from £35 £25 a month for the ‘Residential 100Mbps’ unlimited data plan (kit price may vary due to different offers), which also promises uploads of c.15-35Mbps and low latency connectivity. Faster packages exist at greater cost, while more restrictive (data capped) options also exist for roaming users (e.g. £50 per month for 100 GigaBytes of data).

The latest change means that Starlink’s 100Mbps residential plan is now £25 a month for the first 6 months of service (£35 thereafter), while 200Mbps similarly drops to £45 and Residential Max (best speed possible up to around 400Mbps+) falls to £65.

The other caveat is that this discount isn’t available to everybody, with Starlink’s website talking vaguely about “selected areas” and their official email suggesting “most areas of the UK“. Suffice to say, it’s a bit of a postcode lottery discount.

Separately, Ookla has just published a new study that examines how the reliability of Starlink has been increasing. For example, the rollout of V2 Mini satellites and Inter-Satellite Links (ISL) have pushed network capacity past 600Tbps, which helped Starlink’s Reliability Experience scores surge by more than 30% in Canada and the UK, and over 25% in the U.S. The future GEN3 satellites should deliver a similar boost.