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Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

From: "Hex Star" <hexstar () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:36:13 -0700

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?

Current thread:

Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Hex Star (Oct 04)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Leigh Porter (Oct 04)
  - Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Newton (Oct 04)
  - Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Taran Rampersad (Oct 04)
  - Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Smith (Oct 04)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? David E. Smith (Oct 04)
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    - Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Vassili Tchersky (Oct 04)
    - Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Roland Perry (Oct 06)
    - RE: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Steven Haigh (Oct 06)
    - Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Andy Davidson (Oct 08)
    - Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Roland Perry (Oct 08)

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