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Re:56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to in... by petercooper on Saturday May 07, 2011 @03:10AM (#2523347)
Not necessarily. If everyone tried to use the connection at full capacity, they wouldn't succeed since the backbone and international connections are bottlenecks at a far lower capacity than the collective theoretical bandwidth of all local users. So if a million Swedes tried to download from YouTube at 10Mbps each, you can be sure there isn't a 10Tbps pipe to deal with that, and so every user would end up with slow, sluggish service. Just unmetered.

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