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Originally Posted by sherman
The reason is that unlike the lucky buggers in the US (and some other countries) we have very stringent data caps here (either that or we pay-per-meg/gig).
It's not uncommon for a NZ family to have a cap of 10GB/month or less, which counts against downloads AND uploads. High end plans usually have 20GB-40GB/month caps depending on the ISP.
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Same here in the UK. Typical caps here are in the range of 10-50GB/month. There are essentially no "unlimited" internet services left in the UK, simply because it only takes a tiny percentage of people trying to "download the entire internet" to dramatically downgrade performance for everybody. Eg, when my own ISP introduced a "fair use policy" they said at the time that 1% of the users were using 80% of the bandwidth.