Starlink satellite internet service to launch in Sri Lanka next month
By: Staff Writer
March 28, Colombo (LNW): the revolutionary Starlink satellite broadband services will be available in the country from next month Cabinet Spokesman and Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa announced yesterday.
Responding to journalists at the weekly post-Cabinet meeting media briefing, he explained that the Government has taken steps to regulate and oversee the service to ensure national security and service quality.
“The Government intervened to streamline the process and ensure that all necessary security measures and regulatory standards are met,” he said, adding that these considerations should have been prioritised from the outset of the discussions.
Starlink, developed by SpaceX, is the world’s first and largest satellite constellation that operates in low Earth orbit to provide high-speed, low-latency broadband internet. The service is designed to support streaming, online gaming, video calls, and more, making it a potential game-changer for internet access in Sri Lanka.
In January, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) approved the tariff plans for Elon Musk’s ‘Starlink’ satellite broadband services to be implemented through ‘Starlink’ Lanka Ltd in Janauary this year. .
The five ‘Starlink’ monthly packages inclusive of tax approved include Residential (Fixed – Rs. 15,000) with unlimited residential data offering download speed of 50-200 Mbps and upload speed of 20-40 Mbps and Residential Lite Fixed (Rs. 9,200) with unlimited deprioritised data offering download speed of 30-100 Mbps and 5-25 Mbps of upload speed.
Priority – Fixed package options include Rs. 20,994 per month inclusive of 40 GB of priority data; Rs. 62,859.24 per month inclusive of 1 TB; Rs. 125,965.46 for 2 TB and customer subscribes to a 1 TB, 2 TB or 6 TB monthly data plan with an additional charge of Rs. 125.57 per GB for priority data above the subscribed levels.
The Roam (Mobility) package is Rs. 27,000 per month regional service and Rs. 145,000 per month global service.
The mobility priority is Rs. 92,374.67 per month upto 50 GB of priority mobile data and Rs. 370,486.66 per month upto 1 TB of priority mobile data; Rs. 1.85 million per month for up to 5 TB of priority mobile data and Rs. 738.71 per GB of priority data above these levels.
