Starlink Reduces Costs, Making Satellite Internet 20% Cheaper For Brazilian Users

The Price Of The Internet Offered By Starlink In Brazil Will Be Reduced. The Price Of Starlink For Brazilians Will Be 20% Cheaper And Will Also Apply To New Customers.

A great piece of news arrives for those who signed up for Starlink, provided by the satellites of SpaceX, because in Brazil, the service will be 20% cheaper on invoices generated since Wednesday (10). The news was announced by Starlink in Brazil in a statement sent via email, and the cost reduction will be applied automatically.

Reduced Price Also Applies To New Subscribers

Originally, the Starlink service for Brazilians cost R$ 530 per month, excluding taxes, and considering the taxes, the price rose to R$ 744.60. Last year, SpaceX announced a discount, and the monthly fee dropped to R$ 230.

Now the company has informed that the subscription will only cost R$ 184 without taxes. The reduced price will also apply to new subscribers. To use the internet, it is necessary to purchase a starter kit with antenna and router, which currently costs R$ 1000. Previously, interested customers had to shell out R$ 2,000. On the service contract page, a message informs that all Starlink customers in Brazil will receive a 20% discount. 

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The final price of the service is determined by including taxes and shipping costs from each Brazilian state. Service users have access to the connection provided by the Starlink satellite constellation, from billionaire Elon Musk‘s company, SpaceX, developed to provide high-quality, low-latency internet worldwide, including remote locations.

Starlink internet was approved in the country last January by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), and the operator has authorization to provide coverage in the country until 2027.

Amazon Wants To Compete With Starlink

In October of last year, Amazon announced its plans to launch two satellite prototypes this year, which will be part of the Project Kuiper constellation, a satellite internet service that promises to be a major rival to other services like Starlink’s technology.

Jeff Bezos’ company made a deal with United Launch Alliance (ULA) for the launch to take place during the debut of the new Vulcan rocket, which will also carry the lunar lander Peregrine, from Astrobotic, into space.

In this inaugural launch of Amazon’s technology, only two test satellites, called Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2, will be launched, which will rival Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites. Like the launch of the Kuiper project, Amazon’s technology, the inaugural flight of the Vulcan rocket is a few years behind schedule. ULA already has a contract with Amazon for 47 launches of the Project Kuiper, 38 of which will be with the Vulcan rocket.

Get To Know Starlink Better

In May 2019, SpaceX began one of the most ambitious projects ever developed by the company: a Falcon 9 rocket was launched into space carrying the first 60 satellites of the Starlink mega constellation, designed to provide low-latency, high-speed internet to users worldwide. Currently, the constellation has 1,700 units in orbit, with SpaceX aiming to increase that number to at least 30,000 units and is already working on the second generation of satellites.

Although the first official launch of the project took place over four years ago, the mega constellation had been in the company’s plans long before. In 2015, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, announced that the company had filed documents with international regulators to launch about 4,000 satellites into low Earth orbit.