While the service will technically continue to provide unlimited bandwidth to customers, users who exceed a certain amount of data usage in a single month will be throttled.
On Friday, Starlink sent out an email to users in the U.S. and Canada detailing the new "Fair Use" policy, which explains how residential users will start out with priority access and then continue to receive coverage for the rest of the year.
When there is a lot of use on the network, Basic Access will get slower speeds than Priority Access. Data used between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. won't count towards the priority bucket.
People can track how close they are to the soft cap by using user account pages.
Starlink's media speeds decreased in every country where it is currently available during the past year, according to a third-party network analysis. The main reason for the decline is user growth. Starlink wants to improve the situation by limiting high-volume users to less than 10% of its subscriber base.
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