Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature

The Starlink Mini successful Denmark. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge

Starlink present charges $5 a period to intermission its high-speed, low-latency net service, a diagnostic that utilized to beryllium disposable for free. It affects Roam, Residential, and Priority subscribers successful the US, astir of Europe, and Canada with lots of exceptions.

SpaceX hilariously calls it an upgrade, but I telephone it a bait and power for anyone that bought a Starlink Mini with that "pay arsenic you go" promise.

The escaped intermission diagnostic has been replaced with a $5/month (or €5/month) Standby Mode that comes with "unlimited low-speed data" that's "perfect for backup connectivity and exigency use," according to the email sent to subscribers. Some aboriginal testin …

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