Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

In article <65906A49-7E4E-4B8A-AC49-9342B09B7152 () nosignal org>, Andy 
Davidson <andy () nosignal org> writes
> In this bit of Europe (UK), it's the opposite: the cable companies 
> (CLEC style companies) tend to run unlimited (but within fair use) 
> aggregate throughput policies, but the DSL operating companies have  to 
> impose aggregate throughput caps because the last mile  connectivity is 
> run by the national incumbent.

Surely the incumbent doesn't impose a cost on the bandwidth along the 
local loop - the bottleneck (and cost per gigabyte) is the backhaul from 
their locally operated DSLAM to the ISP's own network.
--
Roland Perry