Starlink Users Will Now Have to Pay $5 to Pause Service

Starlink Users Will Now Have to Pay $5 to Pause Service

“Pay as you go” now means paying when you stop, too.

Starlink Is Alienating The Very Customers It Said It Wanted To Serve

Starlink appears to be eliminating its popular (and free) pause feature in favor of a paid Standby Mode, and some subscribers are frustrated.

Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature

The Starlink Mini in Denmark. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Starlink now charges $5 a month to pause its high-speed, low-latency internet service, a feature that used to be available for free. It affects Roam, Residential, and Priority subscribers in the US, most of Europe, and Canada with lots of exceptions. SpaceX hilariously calls it an upgrade, but I call it a bait and switch for anyone that bought a Starlink Mini with that "pay as yo…

Starlink Replaces Free Pause Mode With $5 Monthly Charge

With standby mode, Starlink Roam and Priority subscribers get unlimited low-speed data that's capped at 500kbps. Customers note that it's 'another rate hike, without calling it a rate hike.'

Starlink Broadband Scraps Free UK Pause Mode for Paid Standby Mode

SpaceX’s Starlink service, which sells ultrafast broadband to the UK and globally via masses of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has done what some might consider a bit of a ‘bait-and-switch’ by suddenly replacing their ‘Pause Mode‘ (i.e. allowing you to stop and restart the service at no extra cost) with a new ‘Standby Mode‘ that costs £4.50 per month. The Starlink service currently has around 8,100 satellites in orbit (c.4,500 are …