Starlink $40 promo plan returning for Mini dish owners as cheapest satellite Internet option

Starlink may soon offer its cheapest promotional Residential Lite plan to owners of its Mini dish meant for satellite Internet on the go.

The Residential Lite plan variant that started from just $40/month was only offered briefly by Starlink as a basic service in underserved areas that was capped at 100 Mbps download speeds.

It was recently removed from Starlink's plan availability roster in those same regions that previously had it, and replaced with the regular $80/month Residential Lite capped at 200 Mbps, explaining the drastic coverage area increase of said plan somewhat.

The 100 Mbps plan that only costs $40/month, however, will reportedly be making a grand return, but as a Roam, rather than Residential plan option for the Mini dish that is currently discounted on Amazon. Currently, the cheapest roaming plan for the Starlink Mini dish costs $50/month, and is capped at 50GB of data, while the unlimited Starlink roaming price is $165/month, quite the hefty amount.

By introducing a cheaper Roam plan, Starlink could increase Mini dish uptake, and it is already taking other measures to do so. It has, for instance, begun to offer the Mini dish for free with a Residential plan across select areas, so that it can keep customers hooked when they travel as well.

Unfortunately, Starlink won't be offering the new, cheaper roaming plan to those who got a Mini dish as a free rental with their Residential plan subscription, it seems. After all, they were already offered a 50% discount on their Roam plan fees for a few months. The $40/month Starlink service plan will be perfect for paying Mini kit owners, though, as the download speeds that this dish supports max out at 100 Mbps anyway.

"There's a long boring technical explanation behind this," says the OG tipster with good track record, and reveals that the new plan won't be "linked to the offer over coming weeks," indicating that there may be more Starlink Mini dish promos pending.