[99839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sat Oct 6 04:24:17 2007
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:00:37 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <31566c420710041452h30303dd1v6e11e67aa4b23a03@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article
<31566c420710041452h30303dd1v6e11e67aa4b23a03@mail.gmail.com>, Vassili
Tchersky <vt@phear.org> writes
>In Europe, the only ISPs where i've seen bandwith quotas was some
>cables operators
Almost all ADSL operators in the UK operate bandwidth quotas.
eg: Currently my ISP is selling 50/20/5/0.5 GB a month options.
There are many reasons, the most powerful being price competition - the
cheapest domestic ADSL is $18 a month (inc tax), ranging up to $50 a
month for the highest quotas.
--
Roland Perry
