Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Thu Oct 4 17:29:12 UTC 2007

On Thu, 4 Oct 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?

Depending upon the country you're in, that is a possibility.  Some 
countries have either state-run or monopolistic telcos, so there is little 
or no competition to force prices down over time.

Even in the US, there is a huge variability in the price of telco services 
from one part of the country to another.

jms