Price hike for Starlink in the UK
Key Points
- Starlink will raise the monthly price of most UK residential and roaming plans by £5 from 18 June 2026, with new customers seeing the increase immediately
- The entry-level £35 Residential 100Mbps plan, launched in January 2026, rises to £40 per month after just four months on sale
- Standby Mode has effectively doubled in price from £4.50 to roughly £9 per month
- Customers on promotional, introductory or discounted pricing keep their current rate until that period ends
- Starlink had 110,000 UK customers as of July 2025, mostly in rural areas, served by nearly 10,400 low Earth orbit satellites
Starlink will raise the monthly price of most UK plans by £5 from 18 June. The increase applies immediately to new customers and covers most residential and roaming packages on the SpaceX-owned satellite broadband service.
Existing customers will see the new rate on their first billing cycle on or after 18 June. The cheapest residential tier, the £35 Residential 100Mbps plan, will rise to £40 per month, just four months after it launched in January 2026.
The Standby Mode feature, which keeps customers connected at 0.5Mbps for unlimited data at a reduced rate when the service is not in active use, has effectively doubled in price from £4.50 per month.
At roughly £9 per month, the standby fee now sits at more than a fifth of the residential plan it pauses. Customers retain the option to cancel and reactivate later, though the process is less convenient than holding a paused plan.
Starlink set out the change in an email to existing customers earlier this week. “Strong demand for Starlink reflects the value customers continue to see in the service. This adjustment supports ongoing improvements and investment in affordable, high-performance products and services as global operating costs continue to rise,” it said.
The group also confirmed the new billing date and stated that customers on promotional, introductory, or discounted pricing will keep their current rate until that period ends, after which the standard regional price will apply.
The Residential 100Mbps plan delivers download speeds advertised at around 100Mbps, upload speeds of roughly 15Mbps to 35Mbps, and unlimited data on a rolling monthly contract.
Faster Residential 200 and Residential Max tiers sit above it at higher monthly rates and also rise by £5. Roaming packages, including the £50 per month 100GB option for mobile users, are affected by the same £5 uplift.
Hardware costs, which start at £299 for the standard kit, are not part of the price change. Starlink operates with no minimum term in the UK, so customers face no exit fees if they choose to leave.
Starlink had approximately 110,000 UK customers as of July 2025, up from 87,000 in 2024, with the bulk concentrated in rural areas where fixed-line broadband is slow, unreliable or unavailable.
Globally, the service finished 2025 with 9 million customers, up from 6 million in July 2025, supported by a constellation of nearly 10,400 low Earth orbit satellites operating at altitudes of between 340km and 550km.
The £35 tier was positioned as an entry-level rural option when it launched in January.
The £5 increase moves it to £40 less than five months later, closing some of the gap between Starlink and fixed-line fibre alternatives in areas where both are available.
