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Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

  • From: Hex Star
  • Date: Thu Oct 04 10:40:53 2007
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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?