[99789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taran Rampersad)
Thu Oct 4 11:16:34 2007
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:09:32 -0600
From: Taran Rampersad <cnd@knowprose.com>
Reply-To: cnd@knowprose.com
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
CC: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4704FDA3.7000704@ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Caribbean has the same problem, though... .smaller countries, less
ability to negotiate bandwidth usage/cost...
bananas for bandwidth program.
Leigh Porter wrote:
> Yeah, try buying bandwidth in Australia! The have a lot more water to
> cover ( and so potentially more cost and more profit to be made by
> monopolies) than well connected areas such as the US.
>
> Also there may be more tax costs, staff costs, equipment costs with
> import duty etc which obviously means buying more equipment to support
> more throughput costs more money.
>
> --
> Leigh
>
>
> 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?
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