Starlink is ending a popular free feature that let customers pause service at any time for free. Now, you’ll have to pay $5 a month to enter what the company is calling “Standby Mode.”

Subscribers who’d been using the pause feature began receiving emails yesterday notifying them that they’d have to opt in to the new Standby Mode by Sept. 13, or their service would be canceled.

“We recently upgraded pause to include Standby Mode,” the company wrote on a support page . “Previously, the pause feature offered zero data at no cost. If pausing with Standby Mode does not meet your needs, you are able to cancel at no cost.”

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In Standby Mode, customers will have access to “unlimited low-speed data,” which is enough to make calls, text and receive software u

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