[99829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Blessing)
Fri Oct 5 13:22:48 2007
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:15:34 +0100
From: James Blessing <james.blessing@entagroup.com>
To: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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?
In the UK there is a very good reason - BT, see this write up:
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/adsl_cost.htm
J
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