SpaceX has changed Starlink’s Fair Use Policy limitations for its upcoming business tiers, as spotted by @Nathan Owens on Sunday. The company has also cut the cost of additional data from $1 per GB to just $0.50 per GB for all three plans.
Starlink’s business tiers are now being offered with service plans offering data caps of 1TB, 2TB and 6TB, increased from previous offerings of 500GB, 1TB and 3TB. It’s not yet clear what pricing looks like for each of the three tiers, as Owens points out.
The news comes after the implementation of Starlink’s Fair Use Policy has been delayed multiple times, with the company most recently targeting April for the launch of the new data caps.
The data caps will apply to all Residential, Business and Maritime Starlink service accounts, downgrading users from Priority Access to Basic Access upon surpassing the given plan’s data limits. When downgraded, the move effectively slows user data rates to 1:1 Mbps upload-to-download ratios during peak hours.
SpaceX has also said that users surpassing these limits represent less than 10 percent of users, so most are unlikely to even encounter the limit.
The Fair Use Policy was first announced by SpaceX in November, in an effort to prevent high use from a few users from negatively impacting the connections of others.
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