ELON Musk’s Starlink is serving up a cheap new way to get internet from space.
The SpaceX service uses satellites to beam internet down to Earth – and you can bag it for £35 a month.
SpaceX has rocketed nearly 10,000 Starlink satellites into space to create a vast constellation orbiting Earth.
These work to beam down internet to you, which you can then pick up at home using a special dish receiver.
This then relays the internet connection into your home, which you can then use just like regular Wi-Fi.
The advantage of Starlink is that it’s great if you’re in a rural area where you’re not well-served by regular underground internet cables.
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Starlink has upwards of 9 million customers around the world, with over 100,000 in the UK.
And many of those will be in these rural areas where you might struggle to get decent internet.
Normally you’d have to pay £55 a month for Starlink’s Residential Lite plan.
This gets you speeds of around 200Mbps.
But the new package – called Residential 100Mbps – gets you 100 Mbps speeds.
That’s still higher than the UK’s median broadband download speed of 73.21 Mbps, according to Ofcom figures.
The Sun was able to verify that the cheaper service is currently available in “select areas”.
We tried it at a locations in London and Hertfordshire, but it was too “high demand” for the low prices.
But checking the service at Inverness in the north of Scotland showed availability, with delivery in “two to three weeks”.
It was also available in several high-population locations including Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast, Birmingham, Norwich, and Falmouth.
You can use the Starlink website to plug in your own address to see if the cheaper service is available.
There’s professional installation, which costs £75 as a one-off fee.
But there’s no monthly fee for the kit that you need for actually using the service.
The package promises download speeds of up to 100Mbps, but says it’ll typically be 80-100Mbps.
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And for upload speeds, you’re looking at 15-13Mbps.
The deal includes a single Starlink Router Mini, and promises coverage for up to 1,300 ft² of property.
Starlink says the package is “great for light streaming and online browsing on a few devices”.
And you also get unlimited data, so you don’t have to worry about hitting a cap and then being totally cut off.
