I think it's more like cable companies are slightly less evil than Verizon. We've been doing okay with CenturyLink (knock wood), although that may also be because we got a business line (after it became clear the residential folks were going to be clueless about static IP/etc...).

There was a point during my troubles with IInet/Covad when the Comcast guy stopped by to ask if we wanted cable+internet service (since we stopped all that completely in 2010) and actually seemed clueful, but I guess I dodged a bullet there.