Deregulation could lead to lower prices and more options but in practice it often does the opposite. What will probably happen is that a lower tier of internet

Deregulation could lead to lower prices and more options but in practice it often does the opposite. What will probably happen is that a lower tier of internet service is offered for a price under the current level. That lower tier will be limited in such as way as to be close to unusable for more than the most casual user. The next level will resemble what is currently more or less standard but it will cost more than you'd pay now. There will be some ludicrous all-you-can-eat option for double the price of the above, but those who subscribe to it will soon find out that even that option is limited in some ways, limits which can be lifted by paying 'a small fee' - per limited service. There is an optimum somewhere between totally regulated and totally unregulated. As to whether the current situation in the US resembles that optimum I'll leave for the reader to decide but it should not come as a surprise if the incumbents in the 'net sector start abusing their market power as soon as restrictions are lifted.