SpaceX is bringing its deprioritized plan for Starlink to more markets and rebranding it as ‘residential lite.’ But it still isn’t available in the company’s largest markets.

A cheaper starlink monthly plan is coming to more markets

SpaceX debuted a new “residential lite” plan for Starlink, which cuts the monthly internet fee in return for slower internet speeds. The program is essentially a stripped-down version of the normal residential plan for Starlink, which costs $120 per month in the US.

The new residential lite program appears to be a rebrand of Starlink’s “Deprioritized plan,” which the company debuted in February in New Zealand with a 50% discount on the monthly fee. 

The company then quietly expanded the Deprioritized plan to Italy and Spain, saying users there could expect download speeds between 50-100Mbps — a reduction from the more typical 150Mbps+ speeds. But we hadn’t heard much about moving into other markets since then.

SpaceX has now updated Starlink.com to mention that the newly rebranded residential lite plan is available in over 30 markets. This includes expanding the program to countries in Latin America, Africa, and islands in the Pacific. However, SpaceX won’t offer the program to its largest markets, such as US, where pricing for Starlink has often been the highest.