What I suspect is that they will sell the $120 and $80 plans in an area
as long as there is capacity, or at least capacity that no one notices
is below what's advertised.
Once the higher-priced plans are saturated, they might offer the $40
plan in an area, or shoot up another 29 sats to fill in the area. They
are launching ~~ 100 sats a week it seems. What's that? 5,000 a year?
Local operators are noticing that Kuiper is winning grants in some of
their service areas. What's up with that? Do they even have 100 birds
flying?
bp
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On 12/19/2025 10:35 AM, Robert wrote:
I would think they found out that the customers were downloading just
as much data just using more network time to do it. It's a false
premise that the "extra" b/w in your network can be used for low speed
customers, they take just as many or more timeslices...
On 12/19/25 9:07 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
People with the $40 service who bumped it up to $80 or $120 for the
holidays may get a surprise when they find out they can’t go back in
February.
The ones who dropped down to $40 while it was available may have been
surprised to find out that 100 Mbps is just fine and they didn’t need
250 or 400 Mbps. Interesting also that the 100 Mbps plan is the same
as Lite but with a 100 Mbps speed limit. Lite vs Standard is
described as de-prioritization not a speed limit per se.
So Josh was probably right they got rid of that plan because $120
customers were turning into $40 customers. Somebody at Starlink
marketing said oops, why did we think that was a good idea.
*From:*AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
*Sent:* Friday, December 19, 2025 10:44 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] $40 Starlink tier already gone
Sounds like Uber surge pricing.
bp
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On 12/19/2025 7:17 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
That’s the thing, it’s location dependent. And not in the sense
of we only have enough capacity in your area for Lite service.
More like we don’t have excess capacity in your area so we aren’t
going to try too hard to get your business.
Checking right now for my home address (Chicago suburbs), I see
the $40 service is not being offered, it was a couple weeks ago.
But it says I can get deprioritized 250 Mbps Residential Lite for
$80/mo or 400+ Mbps Residential for $120/mo. Both say $0
hardware cost, but $21.65 due today which I’m guessing is maybe
shipping?
It says if you cancel you have to return the rented equipment. It
used to say a 12 month contract was required to get the $0 hardware.
Starlink prices and speeds are like airline tickets or market
price lobster, it varies depending on location and what day you
check.
Service plans are explained here:
https://starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1728-44881-79?regionCode=US
*From:*AF <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
*Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:03 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] $40 Starlink tier already gone
At that price one would hope...but it's location dependent.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM Steve Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:
doesnt the 120 a month customer get free equipment now though?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM Josh Luthman
<[email protected]> wrote:
Because their $120/mo customers turned into $40/mo customers.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM Nate Burke
<[email protected]> wrote:
Had to drive up sales before the end of the quarter,
and met the quota?
On 12/18/2025 11:18 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Not my imagination.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-quietly-removes-40-per-month-starlink-plan-in-the-us
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