Starlink launches monthly For RV subscription for mobile use – IT Pro – News

In short: yes.

And logically too. It’s actually very simple.

If you can run your network over a cord without significant inconvenience, that’s always best.

Can’t, PtP wireless, 5G/4G/3G, unidirectional WiFi; all more limited in range and bandwidth, but it offers flexibility.

Everything that has to run via a satellite is again more limited, more expensive, and more complex than that – but in the end, of course, is king in terms of range.

Anyway, it remains a trade-off; and if you are touring somewhere where you have decent (enough) coverage with unlimited 5G, it would actually be very strange to use sat-internet; then there is something wrong with the price structure, that is almost impossible!

In the end, Starlink is almost anywhere in Europe, except for slightly inconvenient locations, probably just a bit marginal. The population density, and the infrastructure density, is secretly very high even in the least populated parts.

Starlink really shines in remote parts of the US and Canada, in South America and sparsely populated/infrastructural poorer parts of Africa and Asia etc – but the conditions there, you really just don’t have that here.

In your case, I would indeed just enjoy a mobile subscription of a few tens and take it for granted every now and then for a place with sufficient range to video chat.
Just not having to carry that large dish with you is, on balance, quite an advantage in a van, I think…

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