[99788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Spenceley)
Thu Oct 4 11:14:41 2007
In-Reply-To: <5dc6fd9e0710040736l1dd22cajd56cc43c4d763cab@mail.gmail.com>
From: James Spenceley <james@iroute.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:02:22 +1000
To: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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?
The combination of an English language society, its distance from
content of interest to those speaking said language and countries
sheer lack of population density outside of a few towns (sorry
cities ;-).
--
James
