Starlink is going to feel a lot like other internet service providers with a new data policy. During peak hours in December, the satellite internet division of the company will begin to slow down home internet for customers who use more than 1 ton of data per month. In the US and Canada, the change is being rolled out.
Residential customers will now start each monthly billing cycle with an allocation of priority access data that tracks what they use from 7AM in the morning to 11PM at night. Starlink says less than 10 percent of users currently do, so you will be moved to "Basic Access" data or deprioritized data during heavy network congestion for the rest of your bill.
If you want to buy more Priority Access data, you have to pay 25 cents per gigabyte, but if you use it between 11PM and 7AM, you don't count. It is possible to download new Call of Duty updates or schedule device backups to run while everyone is asleep. RV and Portability satellite internet customers can't get priority access at all, and there are different brackets for anyone with a business account.
You can track your data usage and purchase priority access data from the Starlink app. Data caps and priority access pricing are included in Starlink's business and mobility plans.
According to Starlink, its internet is a finite resource that will grow as it launches more satellites and that it has to manage the network to balance Starlink supply with user demand. The new data caps bring Starlink down to earth with other internet service providers who have much larger data caps.
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