Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Sat Oct 6 08:00:37 UTC 2007

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<31566c420710041452h30303dd1v6e11e67aa4b23a03 at mail.gmail.com>, Vassili 
Tchersky <vt at phear.org> writes
>In Europe, the only ISPs where i've seen bandwith quotas was some
>cables operators

Almost all ADSL operators in the UK operate bandwidth quotas.

eg: Currently my ISP is selling 50/20/5/0.5 GB a month options.

There are many reasons, the most powerful being price competition - the 
cheapest domestic ADSL is $18 a month (inc tax), ranging up to $50 a 
month for the highest quotas.

-- 
Roland Perry