Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Thu Oct 4 14:36:13 UTC 2007

Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones
while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some
kind of added cost running a non US ISP?
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