Geez, where are you located?
Try a dish system, for starters. What do you think really busted the cable industry's chops? A free market routes around monopolies, especially government enforced ones (like most cable franchise deals have been). When was the last time you sent someone a letter with a stamp on it?
If I, as a cable competitor, came to your town and asked to run cable to homes on my own nickel, I'd bet that it would be the city government that's going to tell me "no way."