

It told us: "A provider is required to explain key information about the speed of the service and its approach to managing internet traffic in your contract. We asked the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom what the rules are regarding broadband providers and download speeds.


"There is no universe in which my entire geographical area, which consists of 100,000 people, needs to be restricted at 4am. They claim the service should be described and sold by Starlink as a 50Mbit/sec service. In other words, they reckon the speed cap experience is not related to network conditions, but kicks in automatically if a user is making a large download.Īccording to some of those customers, this is tantamount to mis-selling. This all sounds fair enough, yet disgruntled customers on the Reddit thread claim the bandwidth throttling happens at all times of the day and night, whenever they attempt to download a large file.
