Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Thu Oct 4 15:02:22 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?

The combination of an English language society, its distance from  
content of interest to those speaking said language and countries  
sheer lack of population density outside of a few towns (sorry  
cities ;-).

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James