Either way, YouTube's bandwidth costs are just one of its expenses.

This has led to it being banned on large networks where users are not responsible for bandwidth costs.

So, what "bandwidth costs" are they talking about there?

Internet radio stations using unicast connections may have high bandwidth costs.

It also means that bandwidth costs will not rise in direct proportion to the number of users.

The inherent problem with free downloads is the huge bandwidth cost.

Advertisers have been hard to come by, and bandwidth costs have remained fairly high.

Site owners can be compounded with significant server and bandwidth costs.

Carolla stated that bandwidth costs were over $9,000 per month as of May 2009.

Many websites do this in order to lower their bandwidth costs and improve responsiveness.