Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Thu Oct 4 17:09:32 UTC 2007

Caribbean has the same problem, though... .smaller countries, less 
ability to negotiate bandwidth usage/cost...

bananas for bandwidth program.

Leigh Porter wrote:
> Yeah, try buying bandwidth in Australia! The have a lot more water to
> cover ( and so potentially more cost and more profit to be made by
> monopolies) than well connected areas such as the US.
>
> Also there may be more tax costs, staff costs, equipment costs with
> import duty etc which obviously means buying more equipment to support
> more throughput costs more money.
>
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> Leigh
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> Hex Star wrote:
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>> 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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