Starlink just unveiled a new and heavily discounted plan in selected European countries.
The service plan, called Deprioritized, only costs EUR29 (~ USD 31.80) per month and is currently available in Italy as well as Spain.
A little over two weeks ago, Starlink first unveiled the Deprioritized option in New Zealand, which tends to serve as a testbed for new tech consumer products and pricing plans.
While no official confirmation has been given about other European countries, it is to be expected that the Deprioritized plan will roll out across most of Europe.
After all, demand for Starlink’s services in Europe simply isn’t as high as in the United States or Australia, largely due to the wide availability of fiber across many countries.
Starlink has tried to incentivize consumers to make the switch by repeatedly discounting prices (see here and here) and introducing additional contractional options such as rentals.
Those located in the US and other markets where Starlink tends to run at capacity in certain locations shouldn’t hold out for a cheaper plan becoming available, though.
Coming back to the Deprioritized plan, subscribers can expect the same prioritization as those who opted into Roam.
This means that folks subscribed to Standard (also called Residential) will experience greater speeds.
Starlink claims on its order page that Deprioritized customers can expect download speeds of 50-100 Mbps (as compared to 130-255 Mbps for the Standard service plan).
That said, since adoption in Europe continues to be low, it could be possible that download speeds exceed 100 Mbps, especially if one lives in an area where not a lot of other terminals are accessing the internet at the same time.
Whether the new Deprioritized plan ultimately makes a dent in Europe remains to be seen, especially considering the relatively high upfront cost for the hardware.
Hope in Bulgaria they will reduce the plan as now it’s a lot higher than other countries next to us.
I hope the same 🙂
I’m still waiting for Gen 3 availability before I sign up. Does anyone know about the roll out in different countries?
We are a volunteers from the USA trying to buy a Starlink here in Brasil. We have tried their website for now going on two months but it never worked. We have contacted Starlink customer service which came out to be useless. We have reached out to some of the local resellers, still nothings going our way. We only have three before we return to the USA. If we can purchase the equipment from your country, we will handle the shipping cost. These villages only communication with families is 20 miles away. If you have another alternative, we would appreciate your assistance.
Thank you.
Global Travel Brazil LLC
All this is not to give me more YES I go for it.
100Mbps download?
for this I can hold on to where I am now.
What I see in the comments about contacting Starlink it even makes me think DO NOT DO IT.
Do not sign a contract wit Starlink.
For now I do Lazercom ( Portugal ) For there is no Fibre at the moment is my area, and in Portugal when one ask the provider WHEN will we see Fibre in our street available? Soon, Soon is the answer. That was allready the answer more than 5 years ago when the brand new box was installed to make we could connect to fibre? The wires are running over our head and house. From one village ( SB de Messines to Alte ) but no connection. Hello I allmost can touch the cable. Yes you can but we can not connect you. WTF. It is the same shit all over.
Starlink isn’t selling in Europe because starlink has insane policies. You can only use roam for 2 months then you must spend 24 hours your country of activation WE ARE NOT ALLOWED IN OUR COUNTRY OF ACTIVATION YET. Digital Nomads spend 3 months then move due to the EU’s 90/180 day Schengen rule. If you transfer your starlink to yourself (insanity but they make you do it), then you can’t do that again for 4 months. THERE IS NO WAY TO HAVE CONTINIOUS SERVICE IN EUROPE. The roaming plan is 100% useless in Europe, because of their policies.
This problem isn’t only in Europe. If you want to go to the Caribbean it’ll take forever to get a dish shipped to you, you can’t buy one in America and use it yourself. There are no authorized resellers in the Caribbean to buy a dish from. You can’t take a dish from Europe because it’ll stop working in 2 months, so fly back to Europe for 24 hours every 2 months.
All of this insanity is because Starlink puts wait times on transferring a dish to yourself.