Three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a U.S. problem and all the world needs to do to save bandwidth is to cap everyone.

Simon Hackett, the managing director of Adelaide-based ISP Internode, said it was ridiculous to suggest bandwidth is "running out." Talking to ZDNet.com.au he said Net neutrality isn't about running out of capacity. It's a business model that's about to explode due to stress. He said that the US have got a problem in that they have truly unlimited plans which devalues what a megabyte is worth.

Now everybody file-shares and sends video all around the place and the problem for the telcos in the U.S. is they are having to expand their networks as they go, but they are not getting paid any more money." American ISPs are hesitant to take the option of charging customers for excessive use because they will "probably all nick off and go to my competitors who are not charging them.

The three said that the only answer is to bite the bullet and start doing some decent capping. That way net traffic will be reduced or the high users will pay for it.