You are not driving prices down by regulating them, you are driving them down by introducing more choice and competition, something that usa ISP market fundamentally lacks.
There are some relatively good examples around the world of regulated, utility like fiber networks in particular that _do_ work at actually encouraging free market competition between internet service providers.
Proved by whom exactly? It works perfectly in the rest of the world. I've got a choice of 5 internet providers. People living closer to the central part of the city have 10 to 15.
Please tell me more about this!
To use a big ISP's infrastructure they'll ask for a check in millions of euros. At least that's the case in France with Orange/Free/etc despite having strong regulations claiming they can't refuse to interop with competitors. For those curious, i'm talking both about collecting and peering agreements.
ISPs, just like any other capitalist business, is a mafia. If you want common people to have decent services, you need to treat it like a mafia.