How to sell WiFi with Starlink in Nigeria

• A Starlink kit and a plan that allows the connection to be shared with paying users.
• A router or controller that puts your WiFi behind a login page. TP-Link Omada and MikroTik are the two most common in Nigeria.
• Access points to cover the area. One access point comfortably handles about 30 to 50 people at a time.
• Steady power. An inverter or solar setup keeps you selling when the light goes.
• A way to sell access codes and collect money without sitting by your phone all day.

Starlink's terms do not allow reselling on the normal home plan. The plan meant for shared and community WiFi is its priority plan, which is sold in Nigeria as the Business plan.

In the busiest parts of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, the Business plan has often been the only plan open to new customers. It costs more each month than the home plan and comes with a set amount of priority data, after which your traffic can be slowed at busy times.

Plans, prices and rules change. Check Starlink's website for your exact location, and get Starlink to confirm in writing that your kind of use is allowed.

Not everyone is online at the same moment. As a rough guide for a hostel in the evening, plan for about a quarter of your paying users being online together.

As a rough planning guide, with a speed limit on each user, one dish serves about 200 to 300 paying users. Heavy video streaming pushes that number down. Measure your own evening speeds before you add more people.

• Put a speed limit on every user, so one person cannot use up the whole dish.
• Sell data plans, or time plans with a speed limit, instead of unlimited access.
• When you outgrow one dish, add a second and let your router share users between them.
• For one very large site, ask for a quote on a dedicated fibre line and keep Starlink as backup.

Most people start the manual way. A customer sends a transfer, you check your bank app, then you send them a code on WhatsApp. It works for ten customers. It breaks at fifty, and it stops completely when you are asleep.

With HotspotManager, your customers buy from your own WiFi website or your own Telegram bot. They pay by card or bank transfer, the code reaches them the moment the payment clears, and the money goes to your bank account. You see every sale on your dashboard.

Selling internet access to the public is regulated in Nigeria by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Before you grow, ask the NCC or a lawyer which licence your business needs.

HotspotManager handles selling and payments. It does not give you a licence.

1. Confirm the Starlink plan that fits shared use at your location.
2. Install the dish, your router or controller, and your access points.
3. Turn on the WiFi login page and test it with one phone.
4. Decide your plans and prices. Three to five plans is enough.
5. Connect your controller to HotspotManager and start selling from your website and Telegram bot.