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ISPs pay a more or less fixed rate for their infrastructure regardless of how much it's used, and it's inherently rate limited. You can't make a 1 gig connection go faster than 1 gig or use more power than it would at 100%. The reality is though that customers rarely push it to 100% so actually they save a ton of money making people share bandwidth.