We have coated Starlink’s growth in rural localities throughout Oceania, Africa, and Latin America—and now Starlink-enabled connectivity is booming throughout Australia too.
Starlink—the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tv for pc broadband operation of US-based SpaceX—has handed the milestone of half 1,000,000 subscriptions in Australia. In accordance with a report from the Australian Competitors and Client Fee (ACCC), on the finish of 2025 Starlink had 552,000 subscriptions throughout Australia, up from 375,000 six months earlier than and 297,000 initially of 2025.
Let’s check out this rise of Starlink Down Beneath, powered by TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database workforce.
A historical past of Starlink in Australia
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched Starlink in Australia in April 2021, providing a trial model of its service in northern Victoria and southern New South Wales (NSW). Within the following months, it initially centered on serving “low and distant density areas” however, having progressively enhanced protection all through 2022, in November that yr the operator was reported to have achieved nationwide protection.
As of June 2026, Starlink has three core tariffs for residential customers, providing obtain charges as much as 100Mbps for $75 ($53.60) a month, as much as 200Mbps for $110 a month, and as much as the utmost accessible pace for $150 a month. The height obtain price’s presently marketed as as much as 350Mbps, with uploads capped at 40Mbps on all plans. All residential tariffs embody a limiteless obtain allowance.
As well as, its Roam service—geared toward RVs, campers and dealing on the go—can be utilized in over 150 international locations and is priced at $85 per thirty days for 100GB of month-to-month bandwidth, or $210 for a limiteless service.
There’s an extra $549 ($392) cost for {hardware}, although the operator does run occasional promotions the place gear is obtainable without cost.
Starlink’s partnership with Telstra
Two notable offers had been introduced in July 2023, with the primary of those being between Starlink and Telstra. As per the settlement between the pair, Telstra revealed it could present a hard and fast voice service coupled with Starlink broadband companies to Australians as a bundle supply, whereas providing native tech assist and the choice {of professional} set up.
Telstra mentioned the settlement with Starlink would offer “an extra connectivity choice for folks and companies in rural and distant areas the place distance and terrain make it tough to achieve with current networks”.
Telstra ultimately confirmed the business launch of this mounted broadband service in April 2024.
Starlink and Optus settlement
In the meantime, July 2023 additionally noticed Starlink and one other Australian provider, Optus, strike a deal to ship cell connectivity utilizing the previous’s satellite tv for pc constellation, with a view to extending protection to “100% of Australia”.
By means of its settlement with SpaceX, Optus mentioned it could work to broaden the attain of shoppers’ cell connectivity to incorporate the 60% of Australia’s territory missing cell protection, with this to be achieved by way of a phased rollout of SpaceX’s satellite tv for pc functionality, beginning with SMS in 2024, and with voice and information companies to comply with within the second half of 2025.
Optus was crushed to the punch, although. In January 2025 Telstra and Starlink unveiled their very own plans to collaborate on bringing satellite-to-mobile direct-to-cell (D2C) textual content messaging to Telstra prospects and a business launch of the expertise was confirmed in June that yr.
In the meantime, Optus admitted in early 2025 that its schedule for the launch of D2C companies had slipped and a launch remains to be to happen.
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