Starlink cut 100Mbps UK satellite broadband plan to £32 as other prices rise UPDATE2
SpaceX’s satellite broadband service, Starlink, appears to be changing some of their prices again, which on the positive side seems to have quietly reduced the price of their entry-level “Residential 100Mbps” plan to £32 per month (in some other areas it shows as £36 or still £40). But on the other hand, some service options and plans may have increased in price.
At present the service has an overall total of c.11,190 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for both broadband and mobile services – mostly at altitudes of between c.340-550km. Residential users in the UK previously paid from £40 a month for the 100Mbps unlimited data plan, which also promises uploads of c.15-35Mbps and low latency connectivity (sub-50ms). But currently you can only buy their Direct to Cell (DtC) mobile service in the UK via O2 Satellite for £3 extra per month.
Sadly, Starlink doesn’t offer a centralised price notification to cover all of the changes to their prices, so at the time of writing we don’t yet have the full picture over precisely what is changing and where. But the website does now advertise their 100Mbps residential package at just £32 per month, which is a surprisingly big price cut for such a service.
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The catch is that Starlink have become notorious for price tinkering, thus the current pricing could easily change again. At the same time a couple of ISPreview’s readers (credits to Guy and Chris) inform us that they’ve been notified of some price and product name changes to other products, such as their Local Priority and Global Priority plans for business users.
Starlink’s Email toGlobal Priority users
Updates to Your Global Priority Plan
On December 1, 2026, your Global Priority plan will be renamed Global Business. Additionally, Data Block prices on this plan are being adjusted:
· 50 GB data block / top-up: £135 (US$180)
· 500 GB data block: £670 (US$900)
In the United Kingdom, the Terminal Access Charge for the Global Business plan will not change. It will remain £135 (US$180) per month after 1 December 2026.
The above price(s) are inclusive of VAT, GST, or similar taxes.
Next Steps
New pricing will appear on your next invoice on or after 1 December 2026. On that date, all charges on that invoice will use the new pricing, including any prorated or postpaid charges from November.
Similarly, Starlink informed customers on their “Local Priority” plan that this would be renamed “Business” and the prices would change on 1st December 2026. A 50GB data block (top up) will now set you back £17, while a 500GB data block will cost you £84. In the UK, the Terminal Access Charge for this Business plan will be £20 per month.
UPDATE 12:14pm
Some ISPreview readers are reporting that the 100Mbps plan shows as £36pm in other parts of the UK and still £40 in London, so there’s a greater geographic variation in pricing than we’ve seen before. In addition, there’s also a £19 shipping fee.
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UPDATE 31st Oct 2026 @ 7am
So far as we can tell the new and more variable pricing appears to reflect Starlink’s adoption of dynamic pricing for Residential broadband plans in the UK, which has been tested in other countries before. This essentially ties monthly subscription fees to local network capacity and customer demand and is expressed as a “Service Price Adjustment” on the order page.
Feedback from readers suggests that prices can vary from the original £40 standard (base) rate by as much as either a 20% increase or a 20% decrease from that figure for new customers. Just to be clear, this is NOT to be confused with VAT. The final price that Starlink gives on residential plans for your area should always be inclusive of VAT, as per the law.
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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Dont think its universal, in London it still shows £40/month. I guess reduced where they got slack capacity before Amazon LEO launching shortly and taking some market share.
…and in Cheshire it shows £36.
And in Bristol it’s still £40. But I assume this is not for existing customers?
Showing as £36.00 per month for 100Mb in Merseyside
£36 in Colchester
£32 in Somerset
Tried an semi rural address in Cornwall – shows £32 there. It is in an FTTC/FTTP mixed area so I guess there’s a competitive pressure against either 80Mbit VDSL or 150Mbit FTTP.
I suspect the pricing doesn’t come from market pressure, but capacity. Areas where the geographic density of Starlink users is lower, and/or are close to a ground station, are the ones that get the lower price.
But as the article says: Starlink prices do go up and down on a whim. An attractive price this month could become unattractive next month.
£36 here in NE Derbyshire
I took my contract out in April this year for £35, it then went up in June to £40..I thought this couldn’t happen mid contract… It is now £32 in my area, and starlink(well grok!) says I will continue to pay £40, £32 is only for new customers…
do they do contracts? the page I get implies they don’t. Flexibility works both ways – you can cancel without penalty at any time and they can change the terms and conditions at any time too.
No -it’s 30 days cancel anytime. I will do the same and see if I get offered it for £32
£32 in Plymouth. Much cheaper and faster available for my address via Openreach or Cityfibre FTTP, oh and Virgin too
£40 in South Cheshire
I’m paying £33.99 FTTP in the Rhondda Valleys and that’s 990 Down and 115 up…. Satellite is in my eyes another way to get money from those who think it’s cooler to have a BSB style antenna on their property to brag about.
Good luck to the rich boys as it’s paying for AI!
It’s not that at all, it’s aimed at people who have no other option not for people like yourself who have FTTP!
There is some of us who can’t get more then 8mb down from a landline, starlink is more for people who can’t get a decent speed or service in their area, I wish I could get FTTP in my area so I don’t have to pay this ripoff price for modern internet speeds, I can walk 2 minutes up to the end of my road and they get 2gb down, but my area was forgotten by openreach
@Gavin 8Mbps? That’s fast. Careful tweaking here could get me to 3Mbps, until another cable joint on the run dried out after getting water ingress.
You can imagine what an improvement Starlink is for media streaming and entertainment. For work, not so much, as that speed was fine if using proper remote access tools.
Shows £36 for my address as a new contract. But my existing subscription, currently on £9 a month standby still shows as £40 a month if I go to reinstate it.
The price before checkout is exclusive of tax i.e. VAT.
100Mbps is £40.
£36 in Aberdeen
It’s plus VAT which is very naughty under UK advertising legislation.
Prices advertised to consumers must include VAT. Quoting a price “plus VAT” or hiding the VAT until checkout is considered misleading.
The 100Mbps package is £40 inclusive of VAT.
That doesn’t quite make sense, as 20% VAT added to £32 would equal £38.40 and not £40.
Go to the Starlink website, pop in your postcode and go to checkout.
Geographical differences may apply, however the initial advertised price is excluding VAT.
I’m surprised you haven’t done this already to check the facts for your article.
Yes, I’ve seen that already. The checkout does mention a “20% Service Price Adjustment” of -£8, which is not defined and thus seems to reflect more of a discount and is not expressed as a “tax” or “VAT” as would be required by law. Starlink does however express “tax” on the £19 shipping fee, so they clearly know what tax is :).
I can’t check this further without actually inputting payment details and ordering the service to see what the real-world charge would be or if it differs.
So far as I’m aware that 20% Service Price Adjustment is thus reflecting the service’s adoption of dynamic pricing for Residential broadband plans, as per the other examples above, which ties monthly subscription fees to local network capacity and customer demand. So if Starlink shows £32, then you will pay £32 from your bank (VAT included), at least that’s how I read it for the article.
Hardly a wise decision to use starlink when the owner turns it off for countries at war. Elon can do one.
Well they were using it FOR the war to guide the drones in. so I disagree