Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Sat Oct 6 22:12:21 UTC 2007

> 5-10% of swedish households have the possiblity to purchase 100/10 over
> CAT5 for USD50 a month including 25% sales tax, without any quota, and
> they can actually use the speeds. Some even have 100/100.

from japan that seems pretty normal, except for it being available for
such a small proportion of the population.

north america is a ridiculous back-water with insanely high prices for
negligible bandwidth.  in hawai`i i pay $70/mo for just layer two of
768k.  tokyo is significantly less money for usable 100m/100m.

randy