Pointed post on TeleGeography, looking at capacity on the transatlantic run - the route that keeps the Internet alive for the UK.
According to new projections from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, bandwidth requirements will grow 33 percent (CAGR) between 2008 and 2015. At this rate, trans-Atlantic capacity will be exhausted by 2014, and cables providing diversity [...]

No, not strangling them, just reducing their download speeds. Today’s article on the BBC site:
BT Broadband cuts the speed users can watch video services like the BBC iPlayer and YouTube at peak times.  A customer who has signed on to an up to 8 megabit per second (MBPS) package can have speed cut to below 1Mbps. A [...]