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Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hex Star)
Thu Oct 4 10:39:11 2007

Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:36:13 -0700
From: "Hex Star" <hexstar@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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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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Why is it that the US has ISP&#39;s with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP&#39;s with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP?<br>

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