[99794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Thu Oct 4 13:30:28 2007
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:29:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5dc6fd9e0710040736l1dd22cajd56cc43c4d763cab@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, 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?
Depending upon the country you're in, that is a possibility. Some
countries have either state-run or monopolistic telcos, so there is little
or no competition to force prices down over time.
Even in the US, there is a huge variability in the price of telco services
from one part of the country to another.
jms
