...because Fuck Verizon why? What seems to be the issue you are having with them? Cox is no better in terms of billing, in terms of reliability Verizon is much more reliable simply based on how a Fiber Network works. Cox is very unreliable and subject to many issues that can affect speed. In the 15+ years I have had FIOS I have never had an outage more than an hour or so. Friends that had Cox in the area were constantly having issues with the service.

The price is about the same for asymetrical speeds with Cox. Switching will also require a number of equipment changes.