[99840] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Haigh)
Sat Oct 6 06:57:35 2007
From: "Steven Haigh" <netwiz@crc.id.au>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <TsPOyJElC0BHFAeV@perry.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:56:25 +1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
ISPs offering 200Mb plans on ADSL2+ here in Australia, then charging HUGE
amounts for excess - usually with no notification (at around the $12AU/Gb
rate) may well find themselves in an interesting legal position. Under
Australian law, the 'Bait and Switch' protection is very strict.
With things such as Windows Updates, Virus definition updates, anti-spyware
updates, etc etc etc on a monthly basis, this would easily eat up the 200Mb
allowed by the ISP - leaving ANY usage by the users to be billed at a very
expensive rate.
I've thought for a while that it's only a matter of time before someone sues
an ISP under the 'bait and switch' rules arguing that the ISP knew of these
facts and charged them a premium rate for all their normal surfing - or
offer to switch them to a more expensive, higher quota plan.
Out of interest, has anyone heard of this happening elsewhere on the planet?
--
Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Roland Perry
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:01 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
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
