I hear all of the companies down there cap. Hey, at least Australia was one of the first contries to have ISPs that mass distributed ADSL2+. The US was known for making the internet, but really, despite that fact, the US is the slowest internet based country based on speedmatters.com. Every other continent and country, whether Europe, Australia, or Japan (who is on the top of the list as fastest speed), the US is stuck with connections mainly 768k and lower. My area has faster connections though, cable reaching up to 15Mbps, DSL reaching up to 7.1Mbps (which is what I have) and in a lot of parts in my area, there's connections that are 30mbps or faster via Fiber optic or T3. All Verizon has to do is get more people to go on their service, which since they launched FiOS two years ago already have a couple million customers, and over a million FiOS TV customers since they launched that last year, and they could very well get the US to wake up. Already, one cable provider, Comcast (who is made fun of for capping people at 250GB a month and screwing up BitTorrent), has already done 50Mbps/5Mbps speeds in some places because of Verizon.
One thing that also suprises me though, why is a company who invented Fiber optic cabling, who is AT&T, deploying U-Verse via VDSL2 rather than doing FTTH like Verizon is? That's one of the things that people don't like about AT&T over at DSL Reports as well.
So yeah, just waiting on my FiOS now!