Starlink Standard Kit with 12-Month $159/Month Residential Plan: $0 Delivered (Select Areas Only, RRP $599) @ Starlink

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CheapAzChips on 02/07/2025 - 07:27 starlink.com (343 clicks)
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High-Speed Internet from Space for Your Home

Starlink is offering a $0 Standard Kit (previously $599) for new customers when you sign up for Residential service for 12 months. Available in select areas only.

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Service cancellation, service plan changes, address changes or kit transfers during the first 12 months are subject to a Change Fee. Terms apply.

I couldn't find the said "terms", so I'm not sure when this deal ends. As much as I think the founder is a clown, Starlink has changed my life living rurality. Nothing else comes close.

Currently getting ~180Mbps down, ~16Mbps up, 23ms latency, and this is typical. We're on the $79/mo plan and have no issues with throttling.

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  Hayce Irri on 02/07/2025 - 07:59

  A shame you can’t get this on the residential lite plan.

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  pdevonporf on 02/07/2025 - 12:58

  +1

  Thanks for that, my Lightwire 24 months $139 unlimited 25 Mbps deal just finished this month then goes up to $156.

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    phillq on 02/07/2025 - 13:58

    +3

    I don't see how these companies can compete if they provide a lesser service AND increase their price!?

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      pdevonporf on 02/07/2025 - 15:33

      Few years ago, Lightwire was by far the best plan, about a quarter of the price of any other competitor per GB. We use about 800 GB a month. But in today's market, Lightwire is only worth half of Its monthly plan now.

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      CheapAzChips on 02/07/2025 - 16:16

      +1

      It's a death knell… They can't compete. Starlink is eating them for breakfast, them and every other local rural provider.

      Only another satellite provider could possibly compete now, but Starlink have years on everyone else who's trying.

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      scott on 02/07/2025 - 20:28

      +1

      I suggest that many WISP's are in a death spiral.

      Their fixed operational costs will be growing with inflation, While customer volumes are dropping. Raising prices is all they can do to keep their operation in the black, but this is going to lead to further customer loss as they burn through their less sticky customer base, and ultimately to business failure.

      Lightwire in particular seem to be pitching their product as a premium offering vs starlink, pointing to their local support & high uptime. And promoting a couple of user reviews of people who have switched away from starlink and found Lightwire better. Still, of OP's 25 Mbps is accurate, that is getting increasingly hard to push as a premium service in 2025.

      https://www.lightwire.co.nz/lightwire-vs-starlink/

      I really do wish the WISP's all the best, they are small local businesses, who I would much rather get the connection fees than a particular USA based tech billionaire.

      But they are getting squeezed on all sides:

      • Fibre expansion - I know people on the rural fringes of town with terrible DSL that had fiber rolled out in their (rural) road. - WISP's can't compete against fiber.
      • Cellular internet is expanding & getting better. Both fixed cellular services promoted with by the big networks (with big marketing budgets), and regular unlimited plans Mighty mobile that have got cheap over recent years.
      • Starlink - Massively hyped for good reason - as their completed coverage removed the needs to even find if a WISP covers your address.
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        phillq on 03/07/2025 - 10:22

        Instead of thinking the money is going to a tech billionaire, think of it as funds going towards space exploration and expanding human consciousness to becoming a multiplanetary species.

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    scott on 02/07/2025 - 19:59

    if you are happy with light wires service might be worth giving them a call advising you are going to leave unless they keep you on the old price.

    Many companies have some kind of retention system where they will give you a good deal to keep you from leaving.

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      pdevonporf on 02/07/2025 - 20:58

      As I said, lightwire broadband is really only worth half of what they're charging now compared to Starlink. What was acceptable 10 years ago is not now. Download speeds slow and upload speeds pretty useless. For instance, tried to upload 300 12MB per picture the other night did 180 in an hour. I could never fault their service over the last 12 years . They've done quite a few upgrades, trying to get more speed but it did improve to a maximum of 25 Mbps from 12. It's still pretty slow by today's standards.

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        rizzle27 on 03/07/2025 - 11:31

        Yeah, Primo (Taranaki) is now doing $99/month unlimited, but tbh - only delaying the inevitable I think, which Is why they're doing fibre and mobile now I guess…

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          pdevonporf on 03/07/2025 - 12:14

          @rizzle27: Yes, all of these rural broadband suppliers were heavily subsidized by the government, of course that works when your network is expanding like it was 15 years ago, but it works the opposite when their market is contracting so it's harder to sustain their infrastructure. Starlink does not get any subsidies, but it pays a communications levy, you can get an up to $2000 installation grant for installation of rural broadband.

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  Rowjo on 02/07/2025 - 13:01

  Used to get 300 down now lucky to get 50 down on low priority $79 plan
  Using gen 2 dish tho

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    Jexla on 02/07/2025 - 14:19

    Honestly it's probably just going to get worse too.

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    potsiea on 03/07/2025 - 08:35

    I haven't noticed a deterioration in the speeds I just hit the speedtest on our Low Priority plan and got 337/30 with the latest dish. 2nd run 306/23. Still in awe of Starlink compared what other options available to us

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      cartheyn on 03/07/2025 - 09:38

      Could you let me know what speeds you see on https://speed.cloudflare.com/ , https://testmy.net/ , https://speedof.me/ or https://openspeedtest.com/ ? I see a wide variance between what I'm assuming is prioritisation for speedtest.net and fast.com results (or the Starlink app) vs. real world results that are more in line with the first sites I listed.

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        potsiea on 03/07/2025 - 10:04

        They do differ

        In the order requested
        224 / 15.5
        144.7 / 6.9
        20.23 / 12.22
        168 / 2.1

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          pdevonporf on 03/07/2025 - 12:29

          @potsiea: You should only do speed tests on a wired connection directly from your router not your smart phone.

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  CheapAzChips on 02/07/2025 - 15:54

  +2

  Don't forget to use the referral links 😉

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    chiwilad on 06/07/2025 - 22:26

    If you purchased a Starlink from a retailer, you can still get a free month by following these steps:

    1. Open a referral link and look for the message “You are using a referral code” at the top of the website.
    2. Select the “More options” button (three lines) and sign in (create an account if you haven't already).
    3. Click “Activate Your Starlink”.
    4. Enter your Starlink identifier.
    5. At checkout, you should see “Referral Code Applied” below the “due today” amount.