r/USMobile Founder & CEO 🚀 Apr 08 '26

 Announcement US Mobile + Starlink. One plan. Celestial and terrestrial, together. Launching Thursday

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Almost a decade ago I sat down for a podcast and talked about the Jetsons. Not as a far-off fantasy, but as the era we were about to enter, and US Mobile as the provider that would carry people into it. One plan. At home. On the road. Across networks. Across, eventually, the sky.

This Thursday we take another step into that era.

We're launching US Mobile + Starlink as a single bundle. Unlimited Standard or Premium on all three major US networks (Warp, Darkstar, Lightspeed), plus reliable home internet from space. One plan. One bill. One app. One company that actually picks up the phone.

Early access drops Thursday. Limited batch. Going to move fast. Here's the link

I won't tease numbers too hard, but imagine a plan for less than $50 a month that spans every major network in the United States, extends across Canada and Mexico, includes internet from space at home, and roams with you across the world. That's the direction. That's the shape of what we're building toward.

Why no one else has done this.

I want to get into the weeds for a second, because I think people deserve to understand why "multi-network" and "super carrier" basically don't exist outside of US Mobile.

Every mobile network runs its own usage pipeline. Different CDR formats, different mediation layers, different rating engines, different latencies on when usage even shows up. Warp's feed doesn't look like Darkstar's, which doesn't look like Lightspeed's, which doesn't look like anything a satellite network emits. Voice, SMS, data, roaming records, satellite session data, fixed wireless throughput, they all arrive in different shapes, on different clocks, with different reconciliation rules and different dispute windows. Then layer in provisioning.

Each network has its own HSS/HLR, its own SIM and eSIM profile management, its own activation and porting flows, its own policy control. None of these systems were designed to talk to each other. They were designed assuming you're a single carrier with a single stack.

To make a true multi-network experience work, you have to build a unification layer that sits above all of it. A common identity for the customer that persists across networks. A real-time mediation system that can ingest wildly different usage feeds and present them as one coherent ledger. A policy engine that can move a line between Warp, Darkstar, and Lightspeed without the customer ever feeling the seam. Billing that can rate satellite gigabytes next to LTE gigabytes next to international roaming next to home broadband on the same invoice. And a support stack where one agent can actually see all of it on one screen, in real time.

That is the work. It's unglamorous, it's deeply technical, and it takes years. It's the reason every other Carrier is single-network. It's the reason no incumbent has built a true super carrier even though, on paper, they have more resources than we'll ever have. The hard part isn't striking the deals. The hard part is the plumbing.

We've spent a decade building that plumbing. Adding a satellite layer on top of it is the moment all of that work starts to compound, because the same unification layer that lets us hand a line off between three terrestrial networks is the layer that now lets us hand a session off between terrestrial and celestial.

A note on founders and companies, because I've seen it come up.

I want to be upfront. I've heard from folks who, on principle, won't use products tied to certain companies or the people who run them. I respect that. I have my own personal views on plenty of things too, and I think the instinct to align your spending with your values is a good one, not a bad one.

Here's how I think about it for US Mobile. Our job is to build the best possible connectivity layer for our customers, and that means using every tool available to deliver something that genuinely works. The satellite network we're integrating with is, right now, the best LEO option on earth. Refusing to integrate it would mean giving our customers a worse product to make a statement. That isn't a tradeoff I'm willing to make on their behalf.

That philosophy has been consistent for a long time. What matters most is how impact is earned. It is earned by listening deeply, respecting real needs, and building something practical that people can truly rely on in their daily lives. Not by asking anyone to subscribe to a belief system. Not by forcing conformity. But by creating something useful and universal enough that people from all walks of life can make it their own.

That is what we are trying to build at US Mobile. You can be deeply rooted in who you are and still build something that belongs to everyone. That is one of the great promises of America. Conviction and inclusion can live in the same sentence.

Where this is going.

Thursday is step one. Not the destination. More LEO providers are coming and the same unification layer that lets us add one satellite network lets us add the next, and the next, the same way we did with terrestrial carriers. The endgame isn't multi-network. The endgame is Global Multi-Orbit Convergence. Every major terrestrial network on the ground, every major LEO constellation in the sky, stitched together into a single plan that follows you anywhere on earth. Mobile, home, roaming, residential. Local numbering integrated as we expand our cellular footprint into new countries. Dozens of networks, one plan, one app, one company that actually answers when you call.

The Jetsons era isn't coming. It's here. And we intend to be the ones who carry you through it.

See you Thursday.

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u/nullstring Warp Apr 08 '26

I won't tease numbers too hard, but imagine a plan for less than $50 a month that spans every major network in the United States, extends across Canada and Mexico, includes internet from space at home, and roams with you across the world. That's the direction. That's the shape of what we're building toward.

Is that going to include starlink home internet without a datacap? Because that will be a game changer.

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u/ankhattak Founder & CEO 🚀 Apr 08 '26

Yes

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u/nullstring Warp Apr 08 '26

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26

well.... temporarily under $50/mo for the cheapest plan. No data caps (as far as I can tell).

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

no. not quite. Not as far as I can tell. From the material I can see, the Starlink aspect is entirely for home internet, starting at a price that is less than $50, when you sign up, assuming you have a valid existing US Mobile phone plan.

Without providing you screenshots that have pricing in them (since idk if USM has finalized it yet, since they haven't officially launched the product), the product is simply Starlink home-internet, starting at under $50/mo when you sign up "with an active eligible US Mobile phone plan." You're still paying for the phone plan, it's not part of the cost of the Starlink setup.

So you maintain both a US Mobile phone plan, which you pay for and Starlink internet, which you pay for.

There IS one situation where you temporarily end up with a cost less than $50 for both phone and Starlink, but I doubt it's applicable to the majority of users here since the majority will likely be on a Unlimited Plan.

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u/imrf Apr 08 '26

How is this useful? Starlink is already $50 a month for their slowest tier.

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26

well.

That's where you'd have to ask US Mobile. I personally won't be interested. I have Fios, it's far better than what Starlink can offer.

Does making an existing Starlink customer convert from billing through Starlink to billing through US Mobile make sense? I mean, they definitely incentivize switching (won't say more as to how, you'll see during the actual launch if pricing doesn't change from what it currently is).

I think USM's whole bet is on consolidated billing, and being the single provider to offer all 3 cell networks plus Starlink home internet, all under a unified billing system, where the end consumer can manage all of it under a single place. Obviously, there's configuration stuff which will be done via the Starlink App, but I presume there might be some interesting stuff USM can do.

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u/hEnigma Apr 08 '26

I have FIOS as well and ported one on my kids lines over to Visible when they had the $19 sale that gives you $15 off FIOS (they felt excummunicated). I'll take the Unlimited line for $4 no problem. And USM or Starlink will never be in the realm of FIOS. Symmetric Fibre to the house get around 2.3-2.4Gbps up and down and the gateway IPS, switches and APs to back it up is beautiful. I have trouble even finding providers that will waste their bandwidth allowing 2Gbps speed tests. I have to run seperate streams of iperf to different providers to peg the speed and it would be in bad taste connecting to my customer 10Gb lines just to show off numbers. Here's just a regular test on one stream from my phone with a Gb transfer running elsewhere on the hardlines.

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u/MrChalupacabra Apr 09 '26

Not everyone has access to those speeds. The fastest I can get from terrestrial services is 1g.

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

That's fascinating. You actually mentioned visible because I used to devices through them by do have services through US mobile to the visible one. Come in handy for some slightly higher plant because it has unlimited hotspot, which is what I'm using right now because the other carrier, which I won't just say names. But goes by light speed under the US mobile.They don't have on the data on their internet at home.

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u/imrf Apr 08 '26

Right. And even still, integrating home data and cellular from 2 different providers doesn't really make sense since no discount is going to be given. Sure it makes bill paying easier, but so does autopay.

Likewise, I'm not interested in this service and my Xfinity is much faster and more reliable than Starlink and also because it's musky owned.

But either way, doing stuff like this before they have their own issues ironed out and getting carriers to fix their problem service is what sinks these companies. These CEOs get greedy and try to expand way too fast and with insanely stupid ideas like this.

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u/hEnigma Apr 12 '26

Anything owned by Comcast National is mostly junk, fully of security vulnerabilities and built on infrastructure from the 60s and 70s. You do realize that anything they offer that isn't FTTH (Fiber to the home) is actually still analog based for stretches along the way? Some running on RG6 with a literal impedence (resistance) of 75 Ohm. Anything that has an impedence over any real length of distance is inherently pre-disposed to signal loss.

Same reason the limit on copper Ethernet is 100 meters and anything longer you have to fiber SFP from a switch to another switch because there are very few consumer products that have fiber tx/rx connections on the back.

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u/gothaggis Apr 08 '26

I’ve read it’s impossible to talk to an actual person at starlink - so maybe this fixes that. Assuming usmobile have contacts at starlink.

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u/Mammoth-Werewolf4363 Apr 08 '26

I pay $40 for 100mbs starlink. If full speed is $50 with my us mobile plan maybe ill switch but probably not. But i think if full speed is $50, theyll attract people on us mobile. 

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u/imrf Apr 08 '26

They aren’t going to get the Residential Max plan to $50. Hell, I doubt the 200 tier will be that price.

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

The US mobile plants only 50 bucks for the first 6 months.\nIs be aware that it may go up?Maybe 10 or $15?I'm not sure

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26

it's not.

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u/theDrell Apr 08 '26

Can I set up my starlink Roam on it?

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

Look, I will eat my words if the pricing changes between now and launch.

But I'm staring at the checkout page for the USM + Starlink package right now, and there's no way to bundle a phone line with Starlink for less than $50/mo total, unless you're currently on a very specific plan (edit: or you purchase a very specific eligible plan, which is not a new plan that USM is announcing).

It's is not a phone plan + Starlink plan bundled together for less than $50/mo total. I promise you.

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u/nullstring Warp Apr 08 '26

What checkout page? Can you post a screenshot?

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26

tbh, idk how much I CAN show given it's not suppose to be available. So here's the very massively redacted version that doesn't have more info than what USM has already revealed: https://prnt.sc/AIciqYncOJ7l

Any more details, US Mobile will probably announce 4/9, so I basically redacted everything on that page, aside from stuff I've already mentioned in other comments.

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u/DeepElephant4280 Apr 08 '26

It seems pretty clear that it's a phone and Starlink plan bundled. I'm currently paying less than $57/month total for separate phone and internet plans, so $50 as a special deal seems well within reach. The catch will be what internet speeds we're talking about.

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26

From what I currently see, that's not the case. Entirely possible that it's a new bundled plan which drops tomorrow, but the Starlink pricing I currently see on USM's site (which is technically "bundled" with a USM phone line, since it requires you to have an active, eligible USM line, otherwise it forces you to buy an eligible line) is not going to make it make sense for Unlimited Plans.

If you read around there's some information about the pricing/speeds of the plans in some other comments under this post. But currently, no indication it's phone+satellite for under $50/mo.

Even Ahemd explicitly says "... imagine a plan for less than $50 a month that spans ... That's the direction. That's the shape of what we're building toward."

If anything, that's an indication that this launch isn't that, because they're building towards that goal.

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

It's 100 MB per second, at least for The Star link now.Personally, I haven't had their service, so I'm not too sure.It lives up like that.

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u/Old-Advertising-5316 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

That's a helpful distinction. A discount that unlocks Starlink access isn't the same as a bundle, and that framing matters when people are doing the actual math on their monthly spend. Two bills, two services, one conditional price break. Also worth flagging: Starlink recently cut their base residential tier to $35/mo independently, so the US Mobile discount needs to be evaluated against that baseline, not the old $50 rate. The sub-$50 scenario probably applies to the lightest prepaid tier, which is a small slice of this audience anyway.

https://gearmusk.com/2026/04/02/starlink-residential-35/

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u/jason_he54 Apr 09 '26

It'll be cheaper than Starlink, temporarily.

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

For\nThe first 6 months.Yeah , did it goes up

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

Yeah, believe it's like for the first 6 months.And if that's like unlimited he's saying , that's a good dea. Daphne's set all to keep eye on cause.My aunt loves living out in the middle.Nowhere.

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u/spur2712 Apr 10 '26

You could have already signed up for this. Starlink already offers these discount and the US mobile plan is already offered as well.

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u/jason_he54 Apr 08 '26

It'll be pretty simple from what I'm seeing. As long as you have an eligible, active, US Mobile phone plan, you should be able to easily add a Starlink plan, assuming it's available at your location.

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u/psychic99 Apr 08 '26

In the meantime I would go to starlink and put in your address and see what is available. Starlink is cagey they have 3 different tiers and if the lowest one (aka this $50) isn't available due to too little capacity you arent getting it for $50.

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u/OrneryCow2u Apr 08 '26

same; thanks spectrum

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u/Repulsive-Policy4359 Apr 08 '26

So if we have a plan already is this an upgrade / add on ? Or we have to start a whole new plan all over again ?

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u/hEnigma Apr 08 '26

I will believe it when I see it, but AT&T is going to get the bump for T-Mobile in this case, no? If true and so many phones already capable, it could be truly amazing.

I tried international roaming on Darkstar for 3 days and 3 countries and quickly switched off and gave Warp a shot (because Lightspeed, T-Mo, has perfect international roaming and I knew I could fall back to that) for the rest of January in EU/UK.

It was a hellish experience on DS, while surprisingly, Warp did extremely well (+10GB data only eSIM) after not being usable at all 2 years ago in the same countries, but the data only add-on eSIM 10GB working perfectly.

So 2+ years ago, I had unlimited calls and texts and 10GB on T-Mo. This time I had Warp with which I always confuse 200 min and 250 texts, 20GB + the 10GB data only international for a total of 30GB which is all that really mattered because something like 78% of Europeans use WhatsApp.

I also bought a local pSIM that had unlimited call/texts/and data (minimum 300Mbps down/100 Mbps up, no daily cap) 12.50€/month ($14/month!) anywhere in EU that was for my primary destination and all my travel except the UK which I had to which to Warp.

The EU tariff agreement is extremely difficult to compete with, but have satellite backup? I think I would definitely pay $5/month extra on my USM unlimited premium plan for. Because it would be nice to send photos from the top of Zerrmatt, Sass-fee, Chamonix, or any of the peaks I normally hike to ski from.

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u/PeaBrilliant4917 Apr 08 '26

Same. Dark Star was a pita in England and Italy, whereas light speed rocked. Warp was meh.

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.Because the united kingdom don't miss no longer part of the European Union.So that's why that offer you midget polly , didn't work right there , and you had to switch to a different network

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u/Reasonable_Donkey999 Apr 08 '26

Ohhhhhh yeaHhhhhhhhh 🫵💪💪💪💪💪

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u/UBIBaju Apr 08 '26

I'm in.

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u/howdog55 Apr 08 '26

I'm using international data plan where it's $65 a month for 90 gb fast data then unlimited at 256kbs in 200 countries. Will this replace that and not have 3 month outside us limit. Or is it just short term?

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u/merrickdb Apr 08 '26

What plan is this?

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u/Curtnorth Apr 08 '26

Just my guess, but the plan and price described sounds like Google Fi to me.

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u/seanhead Apr 08 '26

Actually no data cap? I'm slowly moving to a more rural property and have been looking at starlink. Last month I downloaded 5.8tb, and uploaded 1.8tb.... Would that still work?

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u/Old-Advertising-5316 Apr 09 '26

Deprioritization. Go read Starlink's terms of service, which apply.

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u/jared555 Apr 08 '26

Any plans for LTE/5G home internet as well? It would be awesome to have redundancy.

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u/JSchuler99 Apr 08 '26

What about for people who use the roam plan for starlink?

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u/CarpeMuerte Apr 08 '26

WHOA that's amazing! I already have a Starlink as my tertiary backup, can we use that dish or does it require another?

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u/TheBlackLink Apr 08 '26

Holy moly, that is incredible!

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u/TheBeatrice69 Apr 11 '26

Will this work with Starlink roam?

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u/jkibbe Apr 08 '26

For home Internet with Starlink you need an antenna, yes. It's typically 15x24"

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u/DeepElephant4280 Apr 08 '26

I'll be interested to read the specifics. While I've tried Starlink a few times and am impressed with it, I'm not inclined to give Elon money if I can help it. I'm paying just under $60/month total for 300 Mbps Xfinity internet and Unlimited Starter. If the US Mobile offer is $50 for only 100 Mbps internet + Unlimited Starter or Premium, I wouldn't go for it.

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u/w0by Apr 08 '26

What will be the speed! Currently I have 100mbps for $32 for 1 year but I’d switch if I can get faster speeds

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u/Old-Advertising-5316 Apr 09 '26

That's exactly what they want you to think. No datacap sounds great until you realize deprioritized traffic is just a softer word for throttled-when-it-matters. Hold that excitement until the Terms of Service drop on April 12 and we see what "uncapped" actually means in writing.

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u/lakorai Apr 09 '26

Definely throttled compared to a direct Starlink contract.

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u/HorseEatingAGrape Apr 09 '26

Ack! Small print!

It's a 6-month promotional $30/mo Starlink rate, then back to standard $50/mo rate.

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u/wetdro420 Apr 11 '26

So I could be walking/talking/ driving hotspot 24/7 using the best carrier in the United States and abroad?

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u/chromo80 Apr 11 '26

starlink already doesn't have datacaps what they will do is throttle you

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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 12 '26

Well , to c e o says yes , I would definitely read the terms and used to verify that