Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Mon Oct 8 12:06:48 UTC 2007
In article <65906A49-7E4E-4B8A-AC49-9342B09B7152 at nosignal.org>, Andy
Davidson <andy at nosignal.org> writes
>In this bit of Europe (UK), it's the opposite: the cable companies
>(CLEC style companies) tend to run unlimited (but within fair use)
>aggregate throughput policies, but the DSL operating companies have to
>impose aggregate throughput caps because the last mile connectivity is
>run by the national incumbent.
Surely the incumbent doesn't impose a cost on the bandwidth along the
local loop - the bottleneck (and cost per gigabyte) is the backhaul from
their locally operated DSLAM to the ISP's own network.
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Roland Perry
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