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Somewhat, maybe.

In the UK my ISP (which has excellent service but a small customer base, so it has actual quotas, not a faux "unlimited" service with some hidden usage policies) charges £45 pcm for the cheapest 200GB quota and £55 pcm for 2TB quota. So that means 1.8TB of quota comes to £10 pcm end user cost (ie that has their profit and taxes baked in). Maybe much less difference than you realised.

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Just how long have you been with A&A? Usage policies aren't so hidden these days. You can easily find the link to the 1-2 page PDF on traffic management. If an ISP advertises unlimited, the usually mean it. I mean, of course, Virgin might have 29 unplanned maintenance events and "faults" over the course of a month, which might interrupt unlimited downloading

In the UK the "faux unlimited" providers actually are unlimited (source: downloaded about 14TiB over 3 months, nary a complaint)

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