SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service continues to face growing pains as its waitlist expands to new regions across the United States. Starlink has updated its availability map to show several eastern territories now marked as “sold out” for its standard residential service.
According to the official Starlink website, new “sold out” designations have appeared in Florida, Tennessee, and parts of North and South Carolina and northern Georgia. The Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona has also joined the list of regions where new customers must join a waitlist.
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When attempting to order service in these affected areas, prospective customers encounter a message stating: “Please note that we cannot provide an estimated timeframe for service availability, but our teams are working as quickly as possible to add more capacity to the constellation so we can continue to expand coverage for more customers around the world.”
For consumers in these congested regions, Starlink’s waitlist expands their options from impossible to merely difficult. Those interested in the standard residential planāpriced at $120 monthly with unlimited dataāmust now place a deposit and wait for unspecified network capacity improvements.
Alternatively, customers can bypass the waitlist by subscribing to Starlink Roam at $165 per month, which offers the added flexibility of service portability across multiple locations.
This isn’t the first time Starlink’s waitlist has expanded in recent months. In November 2024, Starlink implemented similar restrictions across major metropolitan areas including Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, and Austin.. Those restrictions remain in place, suggesting that network congestion continues to be a persistent issue.
Starlink reintroduces waitlists in Seattle, Portland, and other major cities as service reaches capacity
The capacity crunch comes as Starlink’s waitlist expands alongside its customer base. Beyond residential users, SpaceX has aggressively pursued partnerships with airlines, maritime vessels, and government agenciesāall competing for bandwidth on the existing satellite network.
While SpaceX regularly launches new satellites to increase capacity, many recent deployments have focused on the D2C cellular Starlink service aimed at mobile phones rather than residential internet. Simultaneously, the company has been retiring hundreds of older satellites, potentially offsetting some capacity gains.
For users in newly restricted areas, the Starlink’s waitlist expands the uncertainty about when high-speed satellite internet might become availableāa particularly frustrating situation for rural residents with limited connectivity options.
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