So-called usage caps, where internet service providers limit the amount of bandwidth users can have in any given month, are standard practice.
But the majority of users are still confused by the bandwidth curbs imposed on them, the research found.
For some who go over their limit the penalty is disconnection.
"With so much reliance on broadband, having the service disconnected could feel to someone as serious as having their electricity cut off," said Tim Wolfenden, spokesman for uSwitch.
Mr Hu, a democracy, environment and Aids activist, is serving a jail term for inciting subversion of state power.
The parliament's president said Mr Hu was "one of the real defenders of human rights" in China, and that the award would support Chinese activists.
An angry Beijing had put pressure on the parliament not to honour Mr Hu.
"By awarding the Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia, the European Parliament firmly and resolutely acknowledges the daily struggle for freedom of all Chinese human rights defenders," said President Hans-Gert Poettering.
"The European Parliament is sending out a signal of clear support to all those who support human rights in China," he said.
Mr Hu is credited with chronicling instances of abuse and alerting both fellow Chinese human rights activists and foreign news organisations.
He was convicted last April of inciting subversion, and is now serving a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence. His wife, Zeng Jinyan, is under effective house arrest.
In order to bail out ailing financial firms, Western governments need money - and China seems a good place to get that much-needed cash.
But Chinese economists say that while Beijing is ready to play its part in the rescue efforts, it will not be writing any blank cheques.
Senior Chinese officials say they are more focused on their own, internal problems, such as avoiding a domestic economic slowdown.
And any help offered by the Chinese government to solve the current financial crisis is likely to come with strings attached.
The four-year-old male and female have been taken to a zoo in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok.
The zoo said the animals were sensitive to noise, and the loud explosions and bangs of last week's protests could make them ill or even kill them.
There has been a political stand-off in Bangkok for the past six weeks.
The confrontation pits supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) against the government, led by Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat.
It erupted into violence last Tuesday as protesters blockaded parliament in a bid to prevent the inauguration of a new government.
Two people died and hundreds were injured in clashes between police and protesters in streets close to Dusit Zoo.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning saying phishing gangs were using the turmoil to extract valuable information from consumers.
A UK parliamentary group said it expected a move away from ID theft towards attacks on account holders.
The news comes as a UK banking group reveals that phishing attacks were up more than 180% in a year.A restaurant in Japan has some unusual waiting staff on its books - two macaque monkeys.
Yatchan and Fukuchan serve customers hot towels and drinks, and are given soya beans as tips.
London's FTSE 100 moved ahead by late morning, despite banking shares taking a hammering. Royal Bank of Scotland - which lost 40% at one point - fell 17%.
Having shed 7.8% in the previous session, the key London index was up 0.6%. France's Cac-40 index added 1.6%.
Japan's Asian markets were mixed as traders reacted to the turmoil.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index sank more than 5% - below the 10,000-point barrier - before recovering slightly to close down 3%.
However Australia's financial markets rallied after the country's central bank cut its official interest rate from 7% to 6%.
London's FTSE 100 index and France and Germany's main stock markets all sank more than 5.5% in morning trading.
Japan's Nikkei index fell 4.3% to its lowest close since February 2004. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slid 5%, while key Russian markets slumped by 15%.
The falls came in the first sessions since the US approved bank bail-out.
The $700bn (£398bn) rescue plan's lack of immediate impact on the availability of credit for banks had contributed to markets being driven downwards, analysts said.
"The Fed's bail-out plan may have been passed on Friday but so far there's been no real reaction in credit markets and because of this the natural assumption is going to be that the measures won't work, even if such a call is rather premature," said Matt Buckland of CMC Markets.
The 6.6-magnitude quake struck at 2152 local time (1552 GMT) on Sunday, destroying more than 100 buildings in the southern province of Osh.
Rescue workers are still searching for survivors under the rubble, the emergencies ministry said.
Destruction was concentrated in Nura, a village in the mountains close to the border with China.
Health officials said the remote location of the village was hampering rescue efforts.
"The picture we saw was frightening," Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
"The village of Nura is fully destroyed, 100%, there are many injured."
North Korea has recently reneged on the deal, angry that it is still on the US terrorism blacklist despite submitting an account of its nuclear facilities.
In protest, it has started restoring its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
Mr Hill's trip coincided with a meeting between officials from North and South Korea to discuss military issues.
It was the first official meeting since the South's President Lee Myang-Bak took office in February.
A South Korean official was quoted as saying that the meeting had ended early, and little progress had been made.
The official People's Daily said the Sanlu Group asked Shijiazhuang city government to help "manage" the media response to the case.
It made the request in August, weeks before the contamination of milk with melamine became public knowledge.
It comes as a new list of tainted milk products is published.
Fifteen more Chinese dairy companies have been identified as having produced milk products contaminated with the industrial chemical.
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