It might be the local government that sets the rules so they can ding you with taxes.
It’s Commiecast/ xfinity. They want to bundle my phone from AT&T, and that would take the bill for CATV-Email-Phone to over $300/ mo. I hate to pay that kind of money for those services.
I got CATV-Email in 2007 for $75 when Commiecast first laid cable and connected to the backbone, and it just keeps rising. I have to admit their service is excellent, though.