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The CEO of BT<\/a> Group, Allison Kirkby, has confirmed that last year’s \u201clandmark agreement<\/em>\u201d to make Starlink<\/a>\u2019s mega constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) available to their consumer broadband customers in \u201crural and remote areas<\/em>\u201c (here<\/a>) has been put on pause over recent controversy around the company and boss Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

The new service was originally due to launch around the end of 2026, although it remains unclear precisely how BT<\/a> and EE<\/a> would have positioned this given how consumers can already buy Starlink<\/a>’s broadband plans directly and at some impressively affordable pricing (currently starting at \u00a328 per month in some UK areas for c.100Mbps speeds). But we assume BT<\/a> were planning something a bit different from simply reselling the same product.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> By mid-2026 Starlink<\/a>\u2019s global network had 13 million consumer broadband customers (up from 6m in July 2025) and 22 million mobile (DTC) customers. The service had 110,000 broadband customers in the UK as of July 2025 (up from 87,000 in 2024) \u2013 mostly in rural areas.<\/div>\n

At the time Allison Kirkby<\/strong> described the planned service launch as being a “giant leap for rural connectivity \u2013 allowing us to get fast and reliable in-home connectivity to our customers in some of the UK\u2019s most rural and isolated areas and to bridge the digital divide better than ever<\/em>“. However, a lot can happen in the space of a year, particularly, it seems, with regards to how much damage Elon Musk is capable of doing to his own brands.<\/p>\n

According to a new report in the Financial Times<\/a> (paywall), BT’s plan to launch the service this year has been put on pause following the controversial disruptions in the satellite<\/a> provider’s service to Ukraine, which hindered the country’s military and weakened its defence. Such actions have also made others around the world nervous about entrusting critical connectivity to a service that can change the rules for its customers on a political whim.<\/p>\n

Kirkby confirmed to the newspaper that BT and EE<\/a>’s Starlink-based broadband service for consumers is now ready to launch, yet instead of doing that they’ve decided to pause it while the company remains \u201ccautious on how Starlink might be viewed at the moment, considering what happened in Ukraine a couple of weeks ago<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s access to Starlink has since been fully restored, although it was a slow process, with neither Elon Musk nor US President Donald Trump seeming to accept much responsibility. \u201cWe will only launch it proactively when we feel the noise has died down a little bit on Elon Musk and Starlink as a result of the Ukraine thing<\/em>,\u201d said Kirkby. This is of course no guarantee that something similar won’t happen again in the future.<\/p>\n

Despite all this, Kirkby said they still plan to launch the new service in the “coming months<\/em>” and praised Starlink itself for being “far ahead<\/em>” of its competitors and adding that BT were still “super excited<\/em>” about their partnership. So, this is clearly more about perception than real principles.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Kirkby finished up by stating that Starlink had “no intention<\/em>” of launching a rival mobile service in the UK. Over in the USA Elon Musk is currently busy trying to build and launch their own direct Starlink Mobile<\/strong> product (here<\/a>), although many doubts remain about the viability of their approach to replace traditional terrestrial mobile networks and towers (especially for indoor reach). At present Starlink prefers to work with mobile operators co-operatively to offer a cheap roaming add-on in the UK (e.g. O2 Satellite<\/strong><\/a>), but if Starlink Mobile works then we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it launch in the UK too.<\/p>\n

At present Starlink has an overall total of c.11,210 satellites<\/strong><\/a> in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for both broadband and roaming mobile services \u2013 mostly at altitudes of between c.340-550km. Residential users in the UK typically pay from c.\u00a332-40 a month (dynamic pricing) for their 100Mbps <\/strong>unlimited data plan, which also promises uploads of c.15-35Mbps and low latency connectivity (sub-50ms). Faster speeds are available at extra cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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