Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Thu Oct 4 14:52:01 UTC 2007

Hex Star wrote:
> 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?

There are more than a few US ISPs that have bandwidth quotas, mostly in 
the last-mile fixed-wireless space.

I imagine the cost of backhauling traffic a few thousand miles in 
underseas cables would add to the cost of running an ISP in, say, 
Australia, especially since many sites the end-users will want to see 
are still hosted in the US.

David Smith
MVN.net