It's hard to imagine Congress doing something good for the Internet. This is the same political body, after all, that considered banning pornography online - a crusade that may please the moral majority, but would wax Orwellian in execution.
Deregulation equals more vendors equals more speed equals better Internet access.
Let's go backwards. That's pretty slow - especially when you're waiting for the latest hot pictures and videos to crawl through your phone line. But getting conventional phone lines to move information faster than 28.8 is proving to be difficult - since a phone line transfers information in an analog format that your modem must translate into digital data your computer can read. Having a conventional modem is like walking around with a translator all day - you'll have fine conversations but they will be slow and without nuance. With ISDN everyone speaks the same digital language - and you get speeds four times a 28.8 modem.