On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:08:39PM +1300, Graeme Hart wrote:

> It's a method of rationing limited bandwidth. Bandwidth costs money. If
> you give unlimited access you get some people using it much more than
> others. It you don't charge people for what they use it's a form of subsidy
> from the low users to the high users.

As I said, I more or less buy this argument for international traffic. But other countries manage not to have volume charging
on local (within a city, say) and national traffic. Why can't we?

As has been noted before, though, volume charging for any level of traffic is indeed rare internationally. We can't be the
only country in the world isolated by sea.

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