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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
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: [email protected] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Perry Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? In article <[email protected]>, Vassili Tchersky <[email protected]> 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
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