[99786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Smith)
Thu Oct 4 10:54:59 2007
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:52:01 -0500
From: "David E. Smith" <dave@mvn.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
CC: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5dc6fd9e0710040736l1dd22cajd56cc43c4d763cab@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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?
There are more than a few US ISPs that have bandwidth quotas, mostly in
the last-mile fixed-wireless space.
I imagine the cost of backhauling traffic a few thousand miles in
underseas cables would add to the cost of running an ISP in, say,
Australia, especially since many sites the end-users will want to see
are still hosted in the US.
David Smith
MVN.net
