Starlink Raises Global Priority Data Prices 50% on Dec. 1. The 50GB Block Goes From $100 to $150 as the Plan Becomes Global Business.

The claim: Starlink is hiking prices again.

The proof: For one group, yes. Starlink's own customer emails, published by the Mobile Internet Resource Center and ISPreview, say Global Priority becomes Global Business on Dec. 1, 2026, and U.S. data blocks cost 50% more. Residential plans are not part of this change.

Editorial Thesis

This is a business-plan repricing aimed at the people who need Starlink far from home: boats on open ocean and travellers who stay abroad for months. The terminal fee is flat, but the data you must buy on top of it rises by half, and the cheaper Business plan now gives only 30 days abroad.

Honest Verdict

• Confirmed (Starlink emails, published by MIRC and ISPreview): Global Priority is renamed Global Business on Dec. 1, 2026; Local Priority is renamed Business.
• Confirmed (U.S. emails via MIRC): 50GB data block rises from $100 to $150; 500GB from $500 to $750; the $150 monthly terminal access charge does not change; the minimum Global Business bill becomes $300 a month for 50GB.
• Confirmed (UK email via ISPreview): 50GB top-up GBP 135, 500GB block GBP 670; UK terminal access stays GBP 135.
• Reported (MIRC): Business keeps U.S. data prices but cuts international use from 60 to 30 consecutive days.
• Not known: whether Starlink will change these again before Dec. 1, or how many customers are on these plans. Starlink has not issued a press release.

What changes on Dec. 1

According to customer emails seen by the Mobile Internet Resource Center (MIRC), U.S. Global Priority (soon Global Business) pricing moves like this:

MIRC notes these figures are for U.S.-registered accounts. Other countries differ. ISPreview printed the email UK customers received: GBP 135 for 50GB, GBP 670 for 500GB, and an unchanged GBP 135 access charge. "New pricing will appear on your next invoice on or after 1 December 2026," that email says.

Local Priority becomes Business

MIRC reports that Local Priority, renamed Business, gets no U.S. data price increase on Dec. 1. The change is time abroad: 30 consecutive days of international use, down from 60.

Starlink treats the U.S. and Canada as one service region, MIRC notes, so trips between the two don't use that allowance. Mexico and the Bahamas are outside it.

Who feels it

• Ocean boaters. MIRC calculates a cruiser using 500GB a month goes from $650 to $900, a $250 monthly increase. That is MIRC's math from the new prices.
• Snowbirds and long-stay travellers. The 31-to-60-day middle option on Business is gone.
• Not most home users. Residential plans are not part of this email. Starlink's town-by-town residential pricing test, covered by AI Shift News on Oct. 31, is a separate change.

What this is not

• Not a residential price hike.
• Not a terminal fee increase. The $150 U.S. access charge is unchanged.
• Not a press release. These are customer emails shared with MIRC and ISPreview.

The video

The Mobile Internet Resource Center's Nov. 2 video (JQGhXWQmocM) walks through the Global Priority 50% data hike and the Business 30-day change, alongside the residential pricing test we already covered. Use the Priority section for this post.

Bottom line

From Dec. 1, Starlink's 50GB Global Business block costs $150, up 50% from $100, and the cheapest U.S. ocean-capable plan becomes $300 a month.