Starlink Launches in Bosnia: What It Means for Montenegro

On 21 October 2026 Starlink opened orders in Bosnia and Herzegovina and published its prices: home internet there costs 68, 88 and 108 KM a month, or about €35, €45 and €55. Montenegro still has no sales. Against most expectations, the first country in the region to launch was not Montenegro, even though talks with the Montenegrin regulator had been going on since 2023.

If you are waiting for Starlink in Montenegro, the news matters in three practical ways. For the first time we have real prices from a non-EU neighbour. There is now a second way to get connected before the local launch, through Bosnia, and it is worth comparing with the Croatian route. And Bosnia's path from licence application to sales gives at least a rough sense of timing. Here is each in turn.

What exactly launched in Bosnia

In Bosnia, Starlink is taking pre-orders on its own website. You pay a 137 KM deposit at order, which is later credited against the kit. Billing starts at activation or seven days after delivery, and every home plan comes with a 30-day trial.

A few details that say a lot about how Starlink enters a market (per Klix.ba and Oslobođenje, 21 October 2026):

• Starlink sells directly, with no local reseller;
• customers install the kit themselves, and no technician visits;
• Roam and the Local Priority business plans are available from day one, alongside home plans.

We saw the launch before we read about it. Starlink's website pulls availability and pricing from a public API by country code. Our watcher checks Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia every three hours, and it caught Bosnia's flag switching to "available" overnight into 21 October. At the same moment the same API still reported Montenegro as unavailable.

How much Starlink costs in Bosnia, in euros

The Bosnian mark is pegged to the euro at 1.95583, so the conversion is exact rather than an exchange-rate guess. Alongside it is Croatia, the nearest euro-zone country where the service has been running for a while; we re-checked its prices on 21 October.

Plan	Bosnia, KM	Bosnia, ≈ €	Croatia, €
Residential 100 Mbps	68	35	29
Residential 200 Mbps	88	45	39
Residential Max, 400+ Mbps	108	55	59
Roam Unlimited	186	95	89
Home plan kit	683	349	€0 rental in select areas
Roam kit	514	263	from 199

The picture is not "the Balkans are cheaper". Bosnia's entry plans cost €6 more than Croatia's, while its Max plan is €4 cheaper. Tax explains part of it: VAT is 25% in Croatia and 17% in Bosnia. Before tax, Max costs the same in both, about €47, while Bosnia's entry plans are €6–7 higher. For Montenegro the takeaway is simple. Starlink prices each country on its own, and you cannot derive a Montenegrin price from the neighbours. A band of roughly €29–59 a month is a sensible expectation, and it remains an estimate.

Can you connect through Bosnia if you live in Montenegro

Yes, and the rules are the same as on the Croatian route. Bosnia is not in Starlink's European roaming group. We checked the full list of 37 countries and territories, and neither Montenegro nor Bosnia is on it. An account with Bosnia as its home country therefore runs under international travel rules in Montenegro: you need Roam Unlimited, with up to 30 days at a time outside your home country and the allowance resetting when you go back.

On cost, the Bosnian route loses. Roam Unlimited is about €95 against €89 in Croatia, and the Roam kit about €263 against €199. The first year via Bosnia comes to roughly €1,400 (263 + 12 × 95), against about €1,270 via Croatia. Add the deposit and the wait, since Bosnia is still at the pre-order stage while Croatia runs as normal.

Bosnia does have one real advantage for northern Montenegro: the border is closer. The Roam Unlimited setup depends on resetting the 30-day counter by returning to your home country. From Žabljak or Plužine the Bosnian border is much nearer than the Croatian one, which turns a full day on the road into a short trip. If you plan to rely on this setup long term, the time saved can outweigh the extra €6 a month.

The Croatian route step by step, and why the €40 Roam plan does not cover Montenegro, is in our guide on how to get Starlink working in Montenegro today.

What Bosnia's launch says about timing for Montenegro

Not much, and guessing here does more harm than good. In Bosnia, Starlink applied to the regulator RAK for a licence on 22 May 2026 and opened orders on 21 October, about five months later. Whether the licence was formally granted has not been reported publicly.

In Montenegro, Starlink Montenegro d.o.o. was incorporated on 29 April 2026 and registered with the Tax Administration in June. One step remains before sales: entry into the EKIP operator registry. When Starlink filed for it is not public, so Bosnia's five months cannot be mapped onto Montenegro. The promised "by the end of Q2 2026" has already passed here.

What we can say with confidence is that the region is moving, and Starlink is entering the non-EU Balkans on the same model, without local resellers. We keep the current status step by step on our Starlink in Montenegro page, with a sourced milestone table and a last-checked date that our watcher refreshes daily.

What we are doing in Žabljak

We run four houses in Žabljak with a 9.2 rating on Booking, and "is there internet up there?" comes up in nearly every conversation, with guests and buyers alike. The Bosnian news does not change our plan. For the houses we are waiting for the official Montenegrin launch, because a home plan on a fixed address is cheaper and simpler than any roaming arrangement.

What has changed is the price benchmark. If Montenegrin pricing lands in the Bosnia–Croatia band, home Starlink for a mountain house will run €29–59 a month plus the kit. What already works in Žabljak without a dish is covered in internet in Žabljak and Durmitor.

Mountain installs are worth planning early: the bracket, the cable route and a spot where roof snow cannot slide onto the dish. In Bosnia, Starlink says plainly that no technician comes out, and Montenegro will most likely be the same. We are building a waiting list for installation, with the form on our Starlink in Montenegro page. And if you want to see the economics of a mountain house with the numbers open, there is a live example: Family House Pleme.